Red And Black Lyrics - Alain Boublil

Combufree: 

At Notre Dame 

The sections are prepared! 

Fuelly: 

At rue de Bac 

They're straining at the leash! 

Couferac: 

Students, workers, everyone 

There's a river on the run 

Like the flowing of the tide 

Paris coming to our side! 

Enjolras: 

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 

Oh, it's 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. 

Jean Provaire: 

What's wrong today? 

You look as if you've seen a ghost. 

Grantaire: 

Some wine and say what's going on! 

Marius: 

A ghost you say... a ghost maybe 

She was just like a ghost to me 

One minute there, and she was gone! 

Grantaire: 

I am agog! 

I am aghast! 

Is Marius in love at last? 

I have never heard him 'ooh' and 'aah' 

You talk of battles to be won 

But here he comes like Don Ju-an 

It's better than an o-per-a! 

Enjolras: 

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! 

Marius: 

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 the world may be changed 

In just one burst of light! 

And what was right 

Seems wrong 

And what was wrong 

Seems right... 

Grantaire: 

Red... 

Marius: 

I feel my soul on fire! 

Grantaire: 

Black... 

Marius: 

My world if she's not there... 

Chorus: 

Red... 

Marius 

The color of desire! 

Chorus: 

Black... 

Marius: 

The color of despair! 

Enjolras 

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! 

Enjolras and Chorus: 

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!