Ca Ira: Opera in Three Acts: "The Echoes Never Fade from That Fusillade..." - Roger Waters

RINGMASTER

The echoes never fade from the fusillade

Lafayette fired upon

An unarmed crowd, six thousand strong

The fragile ship of State

Sinks beneath the waves

The crashing sea of blood

Drowns out the sound of the parade

The tidied up the Camps du Mars

They piled up the dead

The dead whose only crime had been

To dream of freedom

The dead who’d never get to see

The King would be restored instead