ABC Café / Red and Black (Live) - 10th Anniversary Concert Cast of Les Misérables

At Notre Dame the sections are prepared

At rue de Bac they're straining at the leash

Students workers everyone

There's a river on the run

Like the flowing of the tide

Paris coming to our side

The time is near

So near it's stirring the blood in their veins

And yet beware

Don't let the wine go to your brains

For the army we fight is a dangerous foe

With the men and the arms that we never can match

It is easy to sit here and swat 'em like flies

But the national guard will be harder to catch

We need a sign

To rally the people

To call them to arms

To bring them in line

Marius you're late

What's wrong today

You look as if you've seen a ghost

Some wine and say what's going on

A ghost you say a ghost maybe

She was just like a ghost to me

One minute there and she was gone

I am agog

I am aghast

Is Marius in love at last

I've never seen him 'ooh' and 'aah'

You talk of battles to be won

And here he comes like Don Ju-an

It's better than an o-per-a

It is time for us all

To decide who we are

Do we fight for the right

To a night at the opera now

Have you asked of yourselves

What's the price you might pay

Is it simply a game

For rich young boys to play

The color of the world

Is changing day by day

Red the blood of angry men

Black the dark of ages past

Red a world about to dawn

Black the night that ends at last

Had you been there tonight

You might know how it feels

To be struck to the bone

In a moment of breathless delight

Had you been there tonight

You might also have known

How your world may be changed

In just one burst of light

And what was right seems wrong

What was wrong seems right

Red

I feel my soul on fire

Black

My world if she's not there

Red

The color of desire

Black

The color of despair

Marius you're no longer a child

I do not doubt you mean it well

But now there is a higher call

Who cares about your lonely soul

We strive toward a larger goal

Our little lives don't count at all

Red the blood of angry men

Black the dark of ages past

Red a world about to dawn

Black the night that ends at last

Well Courfeyrac do we have all the guns

Feuilly Combeferre our time is running short

Grantaire put the bottle down

Do we have the guns we need

Give me brandy on my breath

And I'll breathe them all to death

In St. Antoine they're with us to a man

In Notre Dame they're tearing up the stones

Twenty rifles good as new

Listen

Twenty rounds for every man

Listen to me

Double that in Port St. Cloud

Listen everybody

Seven guns in St. Martin

General Lamarque is dead

Lamarque is dead

Lamarque His death is the hour of fate

The people's man

His death is the sign we await

On his funeral day they will honor his name

It's a rallying cry that will reach every ear

In the death of Lamarque we will kindle the flame

They will see that the day of salvation is near

The time is here

Let us welcome it gladly with courage and cheer

Let us take to the streets with no doubt in our hearts

But a jubilant shout

They will come one and all

They will come when we call