The ABC Café - Red And Black - Michael Ball, Tim Bowman, Ross McCall

It is time for us all

To decide who we are

Do we fight for the right

To a night at the opera now?

Have you asked of yourselves

What’s the price you might pay?

Is itsimply a game

For rich young boys to play?

The colour of the world

Is changing day by day

Red

the blood of angry men!

Black

the dark of ages past!

Red

a world about to dawn!

Black

the night that ends at last!

Had you been there tonight

You might know how it feels

To be struck to the bone

In a moment of breathless delight!

Had you been there tonight

You might also have known

How your world may be changed

In just one burst of light!

And what was right seems wrong

And what was wrong seems right!

Red

I feel my soul on fire!

Black

My world if she’s not there!

Red

It’s the colour of desire!

Black

It’s the colour of despair!

Marius, you’re no longer a child

I do not doubt you mean it well

But now there is a higher call.

Who cares about your lonely soul?

We strive toward a larger goal

Our little lives don’t count at all!

Red

the blood of angry men!

Black

the dark of ages past!

Red

a world about to dawn!

Black

the night that ends at last!