Happy Bastille Day - Democratic Underground

Jack Rabbit

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Fri Jul-14-06 09:15 AM
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Happy Bastille Day

I must say that French Revolutionaries knew what to do with the idle rich.

Liberty Leading the People (1830) by Eugène Delacroix
From the website of the University of Southern California

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CottonBear

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Fri Jul-14-06 09:45 AM
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1. We may need to follow their example. n/t

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im10ashus

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Fri Jul-14-06 09:48 AM
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2. Cake anyone?

:-)

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bperci108

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Fri Jul-14-06 10:15 AM
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3. From "Bastille Day"

Edited on Fri Jul-14-06 10:21 AM by bperci108

Words and music by Rush (Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart)

"Theres no bread, let them eat cake
Theres no end to what theyll take
Flaunt the fruits of noble birth
Wash the salt into the earth

But they're marching to Bastille Day
Le guillotine will claim her bloody prize
Free the dungeons of the innocent
The king will kneel, and let his kingdom rise

Bloodstained velvet, dirty lace
Naked fear on every face
See them bow their heads to die
As we would bow when they rode by

And were marching to Bastille Day
Le guillotine will claim her bloody prize
Sing, o choirs of cacophony
The king has kneeled and let his kingdom rise

Lessons taught but never learned
All around us anger burns
Guide the future by the past
Long ago the mould was cast

For they marched up to Bastille Day
Le guillotine claimed her bloody prize
Hear the echoes of the centuries
Power isnt all that money buys"

A classic.
:headbang:

(edit: formatting)

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shadowknows69

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Fri Jul-14-06 10:18 AM
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4. Rush is just amazing

some of the best lyrics and definitely THE best live show there is.

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