Les Miserables movie - Red and Black - The ABC Cafe lyrics

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Song by Enjolras, Marius &<br /><br>

(The ABC Cafe, where the students, led by Enjolras, meet to discuss their revolutionary plans)<br>

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COMBEFERRE<br>

At Notre Dame the sections are prepared!<br>

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FEUILLY<br>

At rue de Bac they're straining at the leash!<br>

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COURFEYRAC<br>

Students, workers, everyone<br>

There's a river on the run<br>

Like the flowing of the tide<br>

Paris coming to our side!<br>

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ENJORAS<br>

The time is near<br>

So near it's stirring the blood in their veins!<br>

And yet beware<br>

Don't let the wine go to your brains!<br>

For the army we fight is a dangerous foe<br>

With the men and the arms that we never can match<br>

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

But the national guard will be harder to catch.<br>

We need a sign<br>

To rally the people<br>

To call them to arms<br>

To bring them in line!<br>

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(Marius enters)<br>

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Marius, you're late.<br>

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JOLY<br>

What's wrong today?<br>

You look as if you've seen a ghost.<br>

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GRANTAIRE<br>

Some wine and say what's going on!<br>

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MARIUS<br>

A ghost you say... a ghost maybe<br>

She was just like a ghost to me<br>

One minute there, and she was gone!<br>

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GRANTAIRE<br>

I am agog!<br>

I am aghast!<br>

Is Marius in love at last?<br>

I've never heard him `ooh' and `aah'<br>

You talk of battles to be won<br>

And here he comes like Don Ju-an<br>

It's better than an o-per-a!<br>

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ENJOLRAS<br>

It is time for us all<br>

To decide who we are<br>

Do we fight for the right <br>

To a night at the opera now?<br>

Have you asked of yourselves<br>

What's the price you might pay?<br>

Is it simply a game<br>

For rich young boys to play?<br>

The color of the world<br>

Is changing day by day...<br>

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Red - the blood of angry men!<br>

Black - the dark of ages past!<br>

Red - a world about to dawn!<br>

Black - the night that ends at last!<br>

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MARIUS<br>

Had you been there tonight<br>

You might know how it feels<br>

To be struck to the bone<br>

In a moment of breathless delight!<br>

Had you been there tonight<br>

You might also have known<br>

How the world may be changed<br>

In just one burst of light!<br>

And what was right seems wrong<br>

And what was wrong seems right!<br>

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GRANTAIRE<br>

Red...<br>

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MARIUS<br>

I feel my soul on fire!<br>

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GRANTAIRE<br>

Black...<br>

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MARIUS<br>

My world if she's not there!<br>

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ALL<br>

Red...<br>

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MARIUS<br>

The color of desire!<br>

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ALL<br>

Black...<br>

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MARIUS<br>

The color of despair!<br>

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ENJOLRAS<br>

Marius, you're no longer a child<br>

I do not doubt you mean it well<br>

But now there is a higher call.<br>

Who cares about your lonely soul?<br>

We strive toward a larger goal<br>

Our little lives don't count at all!<br>

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ALL<br>

Red - the blood of angry men!<br>

Black - the dark of ages past!<br>

Red - a world about to dawn!<br>

Black - the night that ends at last!<br>

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ENJOLRAS<br>

Well, Courfeyrac, do we have all the guns?<br>

Feuilly, Combeferre, our time is running short.<br>

Grantaire, put the bottle down!<br>

Do we have the guns we need?<br>

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GRANTAIRE<br>

Give me brandy on my breath<br>

And I'll breathe them all to death!<br>

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COURFEYRAC<br>

In St. Antoine they're with us to a man!<br>

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COMBEFERRE<br>

In Notre Dame they're tearing up the stones!<br>

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FEUILLY<br>

Twenty rifles good as new!<br>

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(Gavroche rushes in shouting)<br>

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GAVROCHE<br>

Listen!<br>

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JOLY<br>

Twenty rounds for every man!<br>

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GAVROCHE<br>

Listen to me!<br>

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JEAN PROUVAIRE<br>

Double that in Port St. Cloud!<br>

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GAVROCHE<br>

Listen everybody!<br>

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LESGLES<br>

Seven guns in St. Martin!<br>

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GAVROCHE<br>

General Lamarque is dead!<br>

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ENJOLRAS<br>

Lamarque is dead.<br>

Lamarque! His death is the hour of fate.<br>

The people's man.<br>

His death is the sign we await!<br>

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On his funeral day they will honor his name.<br>

It's a rallying cry that will reach every ear!<br>

In the death of Lamarque we will kindle the flame<br>

They will see that the day of salvation is near!<br>

The time is near!<br>

Let us welcome it gladly with courage and cheer<br>

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

But a jubilant shout<br>

They will come one and all<br>

They will come when we call!<br>

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