Oratory of hope and glory a whisper and a rhyme
An effigy, a soldier out of time
Citizen and patriot you can't be far behind

The funeral is weighting heavy on your mind

Requiem

Bring the dissident from slumber
Requiem
Raise the rebel from its grave

Requiem
Sound the revolution's thunder
A monumental blunder averted and betrayed


Dig around the cemetery a record of the day
Friends and neighbors in stages of decay

But the saddest thing of all eludes discovery
The stimulus for this somber ceremony


Requiem
Bring the dissident from slumber
Requiem

Raise the rebel from its grave
Requiem
Sound the revolution's thunder

A monumental blunder averted and betrayed

The sanctimonious minions how they grovel at the feet

Authority is populist deceit
Pity yet another casualty's demoralized decline
Just a victim of irrational design


Requiem! Requiem!
Requiem

Bring the dissident from slumber
Requiem
Raise the rebel from its grave

Requiem
Sound the revolution's thunder
A monumental blunder averted and betrayed