Music Video

Featured In

Lyrics

[Intro]
Stars
[Verse 1]
Come on, boys, yeah
Come on
[Chorus]
Look down and see the beggars at your feet
Look down and show some mercy if you can
Look down and see the sweepings of the streets
Look down, look down upon your fellow man
[Verse 2]
How do you do? My name's Gavroche
These are my people, here's my patch
Not much to look at, nothing posh
Nothing that you'd call up to scratch
[Verse 3]
This is my school, my high society
Here in the slums of Saint Michel
We live on crumbs of humble piety
Tough on the teeth, but what the hell
[Verse 4]
Think you're poor?
Think you're free?
Follow me, follow me
[Chorus]
Look down and show some mercy if you can
Look down, look down upon your fellow man
[Verse 5]
There was a time we killed the king
We tried to change the world too fast
Now we have got another king
He's no better than the last
[Verse 6]
This is the land that fought for liberty
Now when we fight, we fight for bread
Here is the thing about equality
Everyone's equal when they're dead
[Verse 7]
Take your place
Take your chance
Vive la France, vive la France
[Verse 8]
Look down and show some mercy if you can
Look down, look down upon your fellow man
[Verse 9]
When's it gonna end?
When we gonna live?
Something's gotta happen now
Something's gotta give
It'll come, it'll come, it'll come, it'll come, it'll come
[Verse 10]
Where are the leaders of the land?
Where is the king who runs this show?
Only one man, General Lamarque
Speaks for the people here below
[Verse 11]
Lamarque is ill and fading fast
Won't last a week out so they say
With all the anger in the land
How long before the judgement day?
[Verse 12]
Before we cut the fat ones down to size?
Before the barricades arise?
[Outro]
Vive la France, vive la France
Vive la France, vive la France
Written by: Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer, Jean-Marc Natel
instagramSharePathic_arrow_out