Songtexte Act 2: Scene 3: To the Windward Isles - Roger Waters

To the Windward Isles

It comes today

The wind of change blows this way

Blows this way

In Sante Domingo and elsewhere

To slaves of sugar and despair

Silver, sugar, indigo

Make even the wisest man "idiot!"

Bring freedom to the

Colonies

Act on principle

Equality, fraternity and

Liberty

Are

Not just words after all

But

Sugar is sweet

And

Coffee is strong

Hope goes down with the sun

And

The sun goes down behind

Mountains of silver

Valleys of sugar

And shiploads of indigo

Make even the wisest man "idiot!"

So come ye ships

Across the sea

Let′s case into the deep

This shame and misery

In Paris they condemn our rage

Condorcet stands his ground and says:

My friends if we believe in freedom

Then we must unlock this cage

Vive Condorcet, hear him scold them,

The frigid reactionary old men

Good God above it's over

Enough is enough

Enough, enough, enough

To the Windward Isles

Revolution has arrived

They will only free us when

They need us to fight for them

Cast into the deep sea

This shame and this misery

Silver, sugar and indigo

Make even the wisest man "idiot!"

"Idiot!"

Album Ça Ira

Veröffentlichungsdatum

25-09-2005

1 The Gathering Storm
2 Overture
3 Act 1: Scene 1: A Garden in Vienna 1765
4 Act 1: Scene 1: Madame Antoine, Madame Antoine
5 Act 1: Scene 2: Kings, Sticks and Birds
6 Act 1: Scene 2: Honest Bird, Simple Bird
7 Act 1: Scene 2: I Want to Be King
8 Act 1: Scene 2: Let Us Break All the Shields
9 Act 1: Scene 3: The Grievances of the People
10 Act 1: Scene 4: France in Disarray
11 Act 1: Scene 4: To Laugh Is to Know How to Live
12 Act 1: Scene 4: Slavers, Landlords, Bigots at Your Door
13 Act 1: Scene 5: The Fall of the Bastille
14 Act 1: Scene 5: To Freeze in the Dead of Night
15 Act 1: Scene 5: So to the Streets in the Pouring Rain
16 Act 2: Scene 1: Dances and Marches
17 Act 2: Scene 1: Now Hear Ye!
18 Act 2: Scene 1: Flushed With Wine
19 Act 2: Scene 2: The Letter
20 Act 2: Scene 2: My Dear Cousin Bourbon of Spain
21 Act 2: Scene 2: The Ship of State Is All at Sea
22 Act 2: Scene 3: Silver, Sugar and Indigo
23 Act 2: Scene 3: To the Windward Isles
24 Act 2: Scene 4: The Papal Edict
25 Act 2: Scene 4: In Paris There’s a Rumble Under the Ground
26 Act 3: Scene 1: The Fugitive King
27 Act 3: Scene 1: But the Marquis of Boulli Has a Trump Card Up His Sleeve
28 Act 3: Scene 1: To Take Your Hat Off
29 Act 3: Scene 1: The Echoes Never Fade From That Fusillade
30 Act 3: Scene 2: The Commune de Paris
31 Act 3: Scene 2: Vive la Commune de Paris
32 Act 3: Scene 2: The National Assembly Is Confused
33 Act 3: Scene 3: The Execution of Louis Capet
34 Act 3: Scene 3: Adieu Louis for You It’s Over
35 Act 3: Scene 4: Marie Antoinette – The Last Night on Earth
36 Act 3: Scene 4: Adieu My Good and Tender Sister
37 Act 3: Scene 5: Liberty
38 Act 3: Scene 5: And in the Bushes Where They Survive
39 The Making of Ça Ira

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