GRANTAIRE: Red …
MARIUS: I feel my soul on fire!
GRANTAIRE: Black …
MARIUS: My world if she’s not there!
CHORUS: Red …
MARIUS: The color of desire!
CHORUS: Black …
MARIUS: The color of despair!

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

Les Misérables, “Read and Black” [music by Claude-Michel Schönberg] (1980) [tr. Herbert Kretzmer (1985)]