The wands of smoke are rising from
From the walls of the Bastille
And through the streets of Paris runs
Runs a sense of the unrealenter added
The kings have all departed, their departed
There servants are nowhere
We burned out all their mansions in
In the name of Robbespierre. Robespierre

And still we wait to see the day begin
Our time is wasting in the wind. wind
Wondering why, wondering why, it echoes
It echoes throughThrough the lonely palace of Versailles

Inside the midnight councils the
The lamps are burning low
OhOh, you sit and talk all through the night but
But there's just no place to goenter added
And Bonaparte is coming with
With his army from the South
Marat,Marat your days are numbered and
And we live hand to mouth. mouth

While we wait to see the day begin
Our time is wasting in the wind
Wondering why, wondering why,enter deleted
it echoes through
Through the lonely palace of Versailles
The gostGhost of revolution still
Still prowls the Paris streets
Down all the restless centuries it
It wonders incompleteenter added
It speaks inside the cheap red wine of
Of cafe summer nights
Its red and amber voices call the
The cars at traffic lights

Why do we you wait to see the day begin begin?
OurYour time is wasting in the wind
Wondering why, wondering why, it echoes
It echoes throughThrough the lonely palace of Versailles

Wondering why, it echoes
It echoes throughThrough the lonely palace of Versailles