There's no bread, let them eat cake There's no end to what they'll take Flaunt the fruits of noble birth Wash the salt into the earth
But they're marching to Bastille Day The 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 we're marching to Bastille Day The guillotine will claim her bloody prize Sing, O choirs of cacophony The king has kneeled, let his kingdom rise
Lessons taught but never learned All around us anger burns Guide the future by the past Long ago the mold was cast
For they marched up to Bastille Day The guillotine claimed her bloody prize Hear the echoes of the centuries Power isn't all that money buys <<