With appologies to Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg Merchants: Do you hear the people sing? Singing the song of angry men? It is the music of the merchants Who will not be slaves again! When the beating of your heart Echoes the beating of the drums A way of life is about to end When Contents Paradise comes. Evil Empire: Will you give all you can give So that our profits may advance? Some will fall and some will live Will you stand up and take your chance? The blood of the merchants Will water the meadows of France!