[Intro]
[Verse 1]
In the shadow of the ancien régime, a voice began to rise,
A pen that carved through dogma, daring to defy.
“Candide” mocked the chains, and reason lit the way,
He planted seeds of change where empires once held sway.
[Chorus]
Oh, Voltaire’s light, it burns so bright,
A flame of reason tearing through the night.
Free to speak, free to believe,
He built the bridge where church and state would leave.
[Verse 2]
Across the ocean, framers heard his cry,
In parchment dreams, they let his visions fly.
“No tyranny of crown or cross,” his quill declared,
In every law, the ghost of his ideas is there.
[Chorus]
Oh, Voltaire’s light, it burns so bright,
A flame of reason tearing through the night.
Free to speak, free to believe,
He built the bridge where church and state would leave.
[Bridge]
From the Bastille to the Bill of Rights,
His words still echo in the freeman’s f***t.
A thousand candles where the dark once thrived,
In the space he carved, our liberties survive.
[Chorus]
Oh, Voltaire’s light, it burns so bright,
A flame of reason tearing through the night.
Free to speak, free to believe,
He built the bridge where church and state would leave.
[Outro]