Marat/Sade (1967)
Lyrics:
...just what you have achieved
with your production.
Who won?
Who lost?
We'd like to know the meaning
of your bathhouse show.
Our play's chief aim has been to take to bits
the great propositions and their opposites...
...see how they work...
...and let them fight it out.
The point?
Some light on our eternal doubt.
I've twisted and
turned on every way...
...and can find no ending
to our play.
Marat and I both
advocated force...
...but in debate,
each took a different course.
Both want the changes...
...but his views and mine on using
power never could combine.
On the one side, he thinks our lives
can be improved by axes and knives.
Or he would submerge
in the imagination...
...seeking a personal annihilation.
So for me, the last word
never can be spoken.
I'm left with a question
that is always open.
And if most have a little
and few have a lot...
You can see how much nearer
our goal we have got...
We can say what we like
without favour or fear...
And what we can't say
we can breathe in your ear...
And though we're locked up
we're no longer enslaved...
And the honour of France
is eternally saved...
The useless debate,
the political brawl...
...are over, there's one man
to speak for us all...
- For he helps us in sickness and destitution...
- No! Why are you afraid to tell them?
- He's the leader who ended the Revolution...
- Listen to me! Listen!
- And everyone knows why we're cheering for...
- Marat has died for you! They murdered him!
- Napolon, our mighty Emperor...
- And now they will murder you!
When will you learn to take sides?
- When will you learn to stand up? Listen! Listen to me!
- Led by him, our soldiers go...
- ...over deserts and through the snow...
- When will you learn to stand up?
A victory here
and a victory there...
Invincible, glorious,
always victorious...
For the good of all people
everywhere...
Charenton..! Charenton..!
Napolon..! Napolon..!
Charenton..! Charenton..!
Napolon..! Napolon..!
Nation..! Nation..!
Copulation..! Copulation..!
Let me go!
Let me go!