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The French Revolution - HD VERSION ("Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga)

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Lyrics co-written by Christian Sylvester. Upscale of 2010 video.

(original remake of the instrumental)

LYRICS

Inequality, the relics of feudalism

Revolution in France

Oh, The Three Estates ensured nobles favoritism

Revolution in France

La la liberte

Egalite

Fraternite

A Revolution

Don’t want no taxes

I’m paying too much

Let them eat cake

We had a banquet for lunch

I need my bread

Bread bread bread off with her head

It went from 8 sous to 12 in a year

Exactly what impoverished peasants had feared

The royals jeered

Ha ha ha there’s more for us

There was a famine

The peasants wouldn’t pay

Bad malnutrition and tooth decay

It went from famine to Napoleon’s war

You and me, let’s start a revolution

We will not take this poverty anymore

You and me, let’s start a revolution

On a tennis court, we swore to a constitution

Revolution in France

On July 14, we stormed the Bastille, we showed them

Revolution in France

La la liberte

Egalite

Fraternite

French revolution

The month of August, 1789

No feudalism, Declaration of Rights

August Decrees,

swept away the two estates

Women of Paris march down to Versailles

Carrying weapons

The French king they defied

You’ll give us bread

Bread! Bread or we’ll stab you dead!

A new constitution

With a limited monarchy

It was a bad time for France

We took on Austria, a war in the spring

Europe frightened by our revolution

We will not take it Louis XVI must die

Tension heightened by our revolution

Radical political mobs unite to start a

Revolution in France

Breech-less sans-culottes of the Paris Commune demanded

Revolution in France

La la liberte

Egalite

Fraternite

French Revolution

La la liberte

Egalite

Fraternite

French Revolution

Walk, walk, scaffold, baby

Guillotine was going crazy

Take heads of kings and ladies

Europe armed for the invading

Walk walk scaffold, baby

Guillotine was going crazy

Robespierre, Reign of Terror

Did it for the Public Safety

I want your loyalty or I’ll get my revenge

I take you out

Till your rebellion ends

Don’t want no church

Catholicism’s dead

No room for God

Worship reason instead

Good ol’ Notre Dame became a “temple of reason”

Revolution in France

A new calendar with months named for times and seasons

Revolution in France

The Terror ended and with Robespierre gone

Was this the ending of the revolution?

Five members of the new Directory ruled

Could it be a permanent solution?

Directory and legislature filled with corruption

Revolution in France

Monarchists and wars would cause even more disruption

Revolution in France

Ooh, oo, oo la la

Coo Coo coup d'état

Ooh, oo, oo la la

Napoleon’s here!

Guests & Subjects Covered

HD VERSIONChristian Sylvester UpscaleLYRICS InequalityFrance LaFrance On JulyEgalite Fraternite FrenchRights August DecreesVersailles Carrying

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