I heard the "revolutionary" song from Les Miserables driving to F911: WOW!

[liberalhistorian]

It's been several hours since my son and I saw F911, but I'm still in total and complete awe. I want it to be on EVERY screen in EVERY theater in America 24/7 until election day!!!

But the best part was that I was listening to my Les Miserables tape (original Broadway version) while driving the 45 minutes to the nearest theater to see it (my local theater was supposed to show it but chickened out due to wingnut pressure in my ultra-freeper county). I played Do You Hear the People Sing? over and over as we drove there because it fit perfectly, especially these lyrics:

Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men
It is the music of a people who will NOT BE SLAVES AGAIN
When the beating of your heart
echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start when tomorrow comes

WILL YOU JOIN IN OUR CRUSADE
WHO WILL BE STRONG AND STAND WITH ME?
Beyond the barricade is there a world you long to see?
THEN JOIN IN THE FIGHT THAT WILL GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO BE FREE!

Repeat chorus

My son and I were both struck by how appropriate the song is to what we're dealing with today. After seeing F911, I feel an almost religious sense of mission to GET THE BUSHISTAS AND THEIR ENTIRE CABAL THE HELL OUT OF THE WH FOREVER! I simply can't imagine what will happen to us if we don't. And I can't imagine who the hell in their right minds would even CONSIDER voting for him after seeing once and for all just what a dangerous lying fascist sociopathic idiot he really is.

[TexasSissy]

1. You are so right. So right.

[Lefta Dissenter]

2. Oh my gosh,

Now I have to put that CD in. Now that you've made that connection, there's no WAY I'll get through that song without crying. It was bad enough before... :cry:

What do you think the Iraqi's would feel if they heard that song - would it be their rallying cry, as well? It breaks my heart to try to imagine what so many families are facing day after day.

[liberalhistorian]

6. In the musical, it applies to

a group of ideological revolutionary French students in the 1830's, but the lyrics would certainly fit almost any similar situation. That's one of the reasons why both the song and Les Miserables itself are so powerful.

[Lefta Dissenter]

13. I've read the book one and a half times

(second time through I skipped some of the background stuff) and I've seen the play four times in Chicago. One of the times at the play I started crying at the opening scene, and I don't think I stopped till we were out of the theater. :cry: Why did I even bother with makeup that evening??? :shrug:

[liberalhistorian]

17. I've read the book but I have yet

to see the musical on stage. I can't wait for it to come to Cleveland and I hope it's fairly soon!

[hlthe2b]

16. I always cry when I hear that (and I've seen Les Miserables

so many times, but never tire of it...)

Guess I need to go locate mine (original Broadway version too!)

[Gingersnap]

3. "dangerous lying fascist sociopathic idiot"

that perfectly captures Chimpy. So true. I can't wait to see F911, particularly after hearing about reactions like yours.

[Massacure]

4. I play a cello in a local orchestra. I've played that song before.

The pitch keeps getting sharper and sharper adding more and more hope as the song goes on. I loved playing it.

[liberalhistorian]

9. I would imagine it would be a wonderful experience

to play it. I play the flute and have often wondered what it would be like to play the songs from that musical in an orchestra. The strings have some particularly good parts in the score.

[Kinkistyle]

5. The "revolution" scene before it is stirring.

The violent "ending" to the show as the revolutionaries (including the young boy) go into battle and get shot down is incredibly moving. I always unfailingly shed tears whenever I see that final scene.

[DU9598]

7. One Day More

That is the song that Kerry should play on the last day of campaigning before the election.

Les Mis is such a great, progressive, story fitting for our times. Let's use it as our rallying cry.

[liberalhistorian]

10. YES!

That's another great song from it and that would, indeed, be a great one for Kerry to use!

The line from Fantine's song "I Dreamed a Dream", where she sings "I had a dream my life would be so different from this hell I'm living" would certainly fit the country's experience under Shrub, particularly dating from the day of his "selection."

[liberalhistorian]

11. Indeed, Marius's song

Empty Chairs at Empty Tables, an expression of his grief at losing all of his friends (he was the sole survivor of the battle) brings me to tears every single time I hear it, no matter how often I play it.

The very end is especially moving; Valjean's final deathbed song with Cosette, and then all of the people from their side who've died coming back at the very end and singing their own version of Do You Hear the People Sing? is incredibly moving as well. I love these lyrics:

Do You Hear the People Sing?
Walking the Valley of the Night
It is the music of a people who are climbing to the light
For the wretched of the earth there is a flame that never dies
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise

They will live again in freedom in the promise of the Lord
They will walk behind the plowshares
They will push away the swords
The chain will be broken and then they will have their reward

Will your join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Somwhere beyond the barricade is there a world you long to see?
Do you hear the people sing?
Maybe you'll hear the distant drum
There is a life about to start when tomorrow comes

[bigbillhaywood]

8. La Marsaillesese

To arms citizens!
Form your battalions!
March on! March on!
Till their impure blood
Waters our fields.

[liberalhistorian]

12. Yes, the French do, indeed,

have a way with "rallying cries". don't they?

[Nikia]

14. And "At the End of the Day" is the theme for my plant

Except that the production superviser doesn't sexually harass women anymore. For all other purposes, that song could be song at the plant and probably many across the country.

[liberalhistorian]

15. Yes, indeed, it could, and

that's probably a large reason for its wide appeal.

[KurtNYC]

18. For the drive home...Not My President

Here is a link to a free download of the Compassionate Conservatives (sarcastically named) doing "Not My President, Not My War."

http://www.oregonwaterfalls.com/cc/NMPNMW.html

A sample:
That's what you get when you go to war
Without a reason worth fighting for
You make it up as you go along
You never want to admit you're wrong

Not My President, Not My War...
Not My President, Not My War...

Heard it first on Randi Rhoades show and couldn't get it out of my head.

[liberalhistorian]

19. Thanks for the link,

that's a great song and expresses how I feel perfectly. Not my president, not my war, indeed!

[obnoxiousdrunk]

20. I feel like singing

to * "Burn mother fucker burn".

[liberalhistorian]

21. Wasn't it absolutely sickening that

that's what the soldiers listened to and got their rocks off of when they were bombing the shit out of Iraq?

[obnoxiousdrunk]

22. It was

sickening. That song should be reserved for chimp.

[liberalhistorian]

23. LOL!

That's for sure!

[Soup Bean]

24. I always think of South Park when I hear anything from Les Mis now.

"Dogs....I hate 'zem"....

[liberalhistorian]

25. LOL!

I never would have thought of that!