From the recording Demos and Acoustic Tracks
I am fascinated by the horrors of the French Revolution, and equally fascinated by how many of its themes are present and relevant today.
This is an 18th century-esque piano waltz that tumbled out of me this past Wednesday about the dangers of unchecked hive-mind.
It's pretty strange, guys, but I love it and wanted to share it.
lyrics
Lyrics
Meet me at the palace of Versaille
October 1789
For a good time
Dress me head to toe in finery
Revolution welling up inside me
Fraternite
I'll take my tea with lemon
And my hive mind unexamined
I'll march wherever they lead
and take whatever bleeds
In tricolor sans cullottes
We're off to terrorize the beau monde gentry
Hiding in the belfry
And the stables
Give us this day our daily bread
Lest we cut off your bloated head
Exciting
To be frightening
I'll take my tea with lemon
And my hive mind unexamined
I'll march wherever they lead
And blame and hurt who they tell me to
(Instrumental)
Meet me at the Place de Concorde
In Summer of 1793
Under the guillotine
Now they're after me
We stood in arms united
Now we fall a house divided
No cause
No love lost
loyalty
is served with lemon
The kool-aid laced with poison
Like Robespierre and Lenin
We turned on our own
The snake ate itself
Ideals betrayed in blood
A mob, a blade, apres moi le flood
How fast the plot is abandoned
When a hive mind remains unexamined