[Intro]
Inequality, the relics of feudalism
Revolution in France
Oh, the three estates ensured nobles favoritism
Revolution in France
La-la-liberté
É-égalité
Fra-fraternité
A revolution
La-la-liberté
É-égalité
Fra-fraternité
A revolution

[Verse 1]
Don't want no taxes, I'm paying too much
Let them eat cake, we had a banquet for lunch
I need my bread
Bread, bread, bread, off with her head
It went from 8 sous to 12 in a year
Exactly what impoverished peasants had feared
The royals jeered
Ha ha ha! There's more for us
(Ha ha ha! There's more for us)

[Pre-Chorus]
There was a famine
The peasants wouldn't pay
Bad malnutrition
And tooth decay
[Chorus]
It went from famine to Napoleon's war
You and me, let's start a revolution
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
We will not take this poverty anymore
You and me, let's start a revolution
On a tennis court, we signed a constitution
Revolution in France
On July 14, we stormed the Bastille; we showed them
Revolution in France

[Post-Chorus]
La-la-liberté
É-égalité
Fra-fraternité
French revolution

[Verse 2]
The month of August, 1789
No feudalism, Declaration of Rights
August Decrees
Swept away the two estates
Women of Paris march down to Versailles
Carrying weapons the French king they defied
You'll give us bread
Bread! Bread or we'll stab you dead!
(Bread! Bread or we'll stab you dead!)
[Pre-Chorus]
A new constitution
With a limited monarchy ('cause I'm a [?], baby)
It was a bad
Time for France

[Chorus]
We took on Austria, a war in the spring
Europe frightened by our revolution
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
We will not take it, Louis XVI must die
Tension heightened by our revolution
Radical political mobs unite to start a
Revolution in France
Breech-less, sans-culottes of the Paris Commune demanded
Revolution in France

[Post-Chorus]
La-la-liberté
É-égalité
Fra-fraternité
French revolution
La-la-liberté
É-égalité
Fra-fraternité
French revolution
[Bridge 1]
Walk, walk, scaffold, baby
Guillotine was going crazy
Take heads of kings and ladies
Europe armed for the invading
Walk, walk, scaffold, baby
Guillotine was going crazy
Robespierre, Reign of Terror
Did it for the Public Safety

[Bridge 2]
I want your loyalty, or I'll get my revenge
I take you out, 'till your rebellion ends
Don't want no church, Catholicism's dead
No room for God, worship reason instead
Good ol' Notre Dame became a "temple of reason"
(Revolution in France)
Revolution in France
(Revolution in France)
A new calendar with months named for times and seasons
(A revolution)
Revolution in France
A revolution

[Chorus]
The Terror ended and with Robespierre gone
Was this the ending revolution?
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Five members of the new Directory ruled
Could it be a permanent solution?
Directory and legislature filled with corruption
(*A revolution*)
Revolution in France
(*A revolution*)
Monarchists and war would cause even more disruption
(*A revolution*)
Revolution in France

[Outro]
Ooh-oo-oo-la-la
Coup-coup, coup d'État
Ooh-oo-oo-la-la
Napoleon's here