Do you hear the people sing,
Singing the song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again.
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums,
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes.

Alain Boublil (b. 1941) French musical theatre lyricist and librettist

Les Misérables, “Do You Hear the People Sing?” [music by Claude-Michel Schönberg] (1980) [tr. Herbert Kretzmer (1985)]