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