Mourir pour des idées
L'idée est excellente
Moi j'ai failli mourir de ne l'avoir pas eue
Car tous ceux qui l'avaient
Multitude accablante
En hurlant à la mort me sont tombés dessus

Ils ont su me convaincre
Et ma muse insolente
Abjurant ses erreurs se rallie à leur foi
Avec un soupçon de réserve toutefois
Mourons pour des idées, d'accord, mais de mort lente
D'accord, mais de mort lente

Jugeant qu'il n'y a pas
Péril en la demeure
Allons vers l'autre monde en flânant en chemin
Car, à forcer l'allure
Il arrive qu'on meure
Pour des idées n'ayant plus cours le lendemain

Or, s'il est une chose
Amère, désolante
En rendant l'âme à Dieu, c'est bien de constater
Qu'on a fait fausse route, qu'on s'est trompé d'idée
Mourons pour des idées, d'accord, mais de mort lente
D'accord, mais de mort lente

Les Saint Jean bouche d'or
Qui prêchent le martyre
Le plus souvent d'ailleurs, s'attardent ici-bas
Mourir pour des idées
C'est le cas de le dire
C'est leur raison de vivre, ils ne s'en privent pas

Dans presque tous les camps
On en voit qui supplantent
Bientôt Mathusalem dans la longévité
J'en conclus qu'ils doivent se dire
En aparté, "mourons pour des idées, d'accord, mais de mort lente
D'accord, mais de mort lente"

Des idées réclamant
Le fameux sacrifice
Les sectes de tout poil en offrent des séquelles
Et la question se pose
Aux victimes novices
Mourir pour des idées, c'est bien beau mais lesquelles?

Et comme toutes sont entre elles ressemblantes
Quand il les voit venir
Avec leur gros drapeau
Le sage, en hésitant
Tourne autour du tombeau, "mourons pour des idées, d'accord, mais de mort lente
D'accord, mais de mort lente"

Encore s'il suffisait
De quelques hécatombes
Pour qu'enfin tout changeât, qu'enfin tout s'arrangeât
Depuis tant de "grands soirs" que tant de têtes tombent
Au paradis sur terre, on y serait déjà

Mais l'âge d'or sans cesse
Est remis aux calendes
Les Dieux ont toujours soif, n'en ont jamais assez
Et c'est la mort, la mort
Toujours recommencée, mourons pour des idées, d'accord, mais de mort lente
D'accord, mais de mort lente

Ô vous, les boutefeux
Ô vous les bons apôtres
Mourez donc les premiers, nous vous cédons le pas
Mais de grâce, morbleu
Laissez vivre les autres
La vie est à peu près leur seul luxe ici-bas

Car, enfin, la Camarde
Est assez vigilante
Elle n'a pas besoin qu'on lui tienne la faux
Plus de danse macabre
Autour des échafauds, mourons pour des idées, d'accord, mais de mort lente
D'accord, mais de mort lente


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