JERRY CRUNCHER: Gaspard was so grief stricken and enraged, that he jumped on the back of the Marquis's carriage as it rode off to his castle in the countryside. And in the middle of the night. Gaspard climbed up and through the Marquis's window and sneaked into his bedroom and thrust a bloody knife right through his heart he did. He left a note that read: “Drive him fast to his tomb”, this from the “Jacques”, the secret name for all revolutionaries. Now the next morning at the cemetery they buried Gaspard's boy while Madame Defarge sat knitting. But then, she stood and raised her shawl into the air and shouted "Revolution". She marched out of the cemetery and they all followed her back into the streets of Paris.
(MADAME DEFARGE CHORUS)
STAND UP
WE'VE GOT TO STAND UP TO IT
DON'T LET
CHANGE BRING US DOWN
STAND UP
WE'VE GOT TO STAND UP TO IT
DON'T LET THEM PUSH US AROUND
(MADAME DEFARGE)
SOMEWHERE OFF IN THE DISTANCE
A CROWD OF PEOPLE MOVE
THEY'VE BEEN HURT, THEY'VE BEEN ABUSED
NOW THERE'S LITTLE LEFT TO LOSE
TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AROUND
THERE IS NO ROOM TO BREATH
WE TURN ANOTHER REVOLUTION
STEP OUTSIDE ARE YOU WHERE YOU WANT TO BE
OR ARE YOU LOST IN THEIR ILLUSIONS
(CHORUS)
STAND UP
WE'VE GOT TO STAND UP TO IT
DON'T LET
CHANGE BRING US DOWN
STAND UP
WE'VE GOT TO STAND UP TO IT
DON'T LET THEM PUSH US AROUND
(MADAME DEFARGE)
NEVER COMFORTABLE WITH WHERE WE ARE
OUR MISERY HAS BEEN TOO STILL
THEY'VE STOLEN ALL THE GOLDEN STARS
THIS EMPTY HOLE CANNOT BE FILLED
TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AROUND
THERE IS NO ROOM TO BREATH
WE TURN ANOTHER REVOLUTION
STEP OUTSIDE ARE YOU WHERE YOU WANT TO BE
OR ARE YOU LOST IN THEIR ILLUSIONS
(CHORUS)
STAND UP
WE'VE GOT TO STAND UP TO IT
DON'T LET
CHANGE BRING US DOWN
STAND UP
WE'VE GOT TO STAND UP TO IT
DON'T LET THEM PUSH US AROUND...NO!
(INSTRUMENTAL)
(MADAME DEFARGE)
NO ONE KNOWS THE WHOLE OF THIS
THE MORE ONE LOOKS
THE MORE THEY SEE
THERE IS NO TIME TO SAVOUR IT
NO LONGER CAN WE WAIT TO BE FREE
TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AROUND
THERE IS NO ROOM TO BREATH
WE TURN ANOTHER REVOLUTION
STEP OUTSIDE ARE YOU WHERE YOU WANT TO BE
OR ARE YOU LOST IN THEIR ILLUSIONS.
(CHORUS)
STAND UP
WE'VE GOT TO STAND UP TO IT
DON'T LET
CHANGE BRING US DOWN
STAND UP
WE'VE GOT TO STAND UP TO IT
DON`T LET THEM PUSH US AROUND
STAND UP
WE'VE GOT TO STAND UP TO IT
DON'T LET
CHANGE BRING US DOWN
STAND UP
WE'VE GOT TO STAND UP TO IT
DON`T LET THEM PUSH US AROUND
STAND UP
END ACT I
