Ca Ira: Opera in Three Acts: "To Freeze in the Dead of Night..." - Roger Waters

REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST

To freeze in the dead of night

To burn in divine law

Deep in the crucible brine

The sorrow and the rage entwine

And coil and climb towards the light

The quill is poised above the page

Words like falling rain slake the thirst and dowse the flames

Cooling in the crucible and idea forms

A nugget of belief in the hearts of the poor

That maybe in the dawn’s new light

They have a right to the law