WHAT WE WANTED

I start out whistling the marseillese and can't get past the ninth note ... for at the end it runs into jesus christ superstar ... and comes to the conclusion in one word ... sacrifice ... who are you ... what have you sacrificed ... personal identity ... nature ... to be fair whatever it is on the altar isn't going to help much if it isn't divine ... let's take jesus to 1794 and the guillotine ... let's make him swiss and put him in the tuilleries ... or a prussian at jena ... or a russian at borodino ... and you can do this in twenty years and build it round one word ... or three ... for this is the word in the singular ... liberty ... or was it revolution ... we saw that is what we wanted and what we had to do to get it ... then we took the show cross europe and back again ... what was it that we sacrificed but the entire generation ... for what ... to be treated fairly ... as an absolute ... nothing else is equal ... equal to love