March in Turin - The Happy Family

We wait together

Inside history

In this drama written for lovers

We can only believe

It may just be the fear we feel

Under this thin cover

But we rejoice in just being alive

For we may never see another

March in Turin

Where lovers can win

March in Turin

We watch the marble

By the embassy door

And before the heat of April

There’ll be blood on that floor

It makes us tremble just a little

To do the people’s will

The calendar on the cafe wall

Tells us endlessly it’s still

March in Turin

Where lovers can win

March in Turin

Only in strange times and places

The powerful unfasten their veils

Bearing the hate in their faces

Desperate child-like and pale

We’ve been behind shutters

Going on twenty days

You returned from your contact

With the whiteness all burned from your face

A message came from Munich saying

The deadline’s put back

Here in this bed of conspiracy

Tenderly we celebrate this black

March in Turin

Where lovers can win

March in Turin

Now’s our chance