UPDATE - 7/15@9:37AM: In celebration of Bastille Day and Rush, John McLaughlin of examiner.com posted an article yesterday titled Best Albums Ever: Rush - 'Caress of Steel' (thanks RushFanForever).
Happy Bastille Day everybody! On this day back in 1789 Parisians stormed the Bastille, freeing its inmates and taking the prison's large quantities of arms and ammunition, thereby setting in motion the French Revolution. More importantly, back in 1975 Rush decided to write a song about it. There's no bread, let them eat cake!
There's no bread, let them eat cake
There's no end to what they'll take
Flaunt the fruits of noble birth
Wash the salt into the earth
But they're marching to Bastille Day
La guillotine will claim her bloody prize
Free the dungeons of the innocent
The king will kneel, and let his kingdom riseBloodstained velvet, dirty lace
Naked fear on every face
See them bow their heads to die
As we would bow as they rode byAnd we're marching to Bastille Day
La guillotine will claim her bloody prize
Sing, o choirs of cacophony
The king has kneeled, to let his kingdom rise.Lessons taught but never learned
All around us anger burns
Guide the future by the past
Long ago the mould was castFor they marched up to Bastille Day
La guillotine - claimed her bloody prize
Hear the echoes of the centuries
Power isn't all that money buys- Rush, Bastille Day from Caress of Steel
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