Ca Ira: Opera in Three Acts: Kings, Sticks and Birds
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Ladies and gentlemen, imagine a bird on song in
A tree, an ordinary bird like you or like me
Imagine some ruffian happening by and
Beating him within an inch of his life
Then a priest from some denomination witnessing this
Abomination blesses not the bird but the beast
The unknown soldier appears on the field and
Takes the bird's feathers to put on his shield
Then a powerful judge from the high court decreed that the
Birds really ought not be allowed to sing in the trees
But then one day some of the priests and soldiers
And judges, putting aside some old warm grudges
Changed their minds and the birds sang again
It was the Revolution
The Revolution is a story of birds, of sticks and stones and bushes
And bones, a story of now, a story of then, a story of women, a story
Of men, a story of everything to come, of everything under the sun