[Verse 1]
All pledged to things as they had been
As they were and shall remain
Are you to meet your new owners yet?
Can't run a country on regret
Where once just none seemed amiss
So how has it now come to this?
Thus spoke the anywhere
Thus spoke the Atlanticist

[Chorus]
Are we sure this blaze
Set to burn our city? (La France)
Will not bring light to it? (La France)
This one you cannot cancel
Living on rights they never give (La France)
In return
Now pity (La France)
Is quite thе sorry counsel (La France)
Is but a sorry counsel
This onе you shouldn't cancel

[Post-Chorus]
La France Nouvelle
La France Nouvelle
La France Nouvelle

[Verse 2]
Are you pledged to what was as to what will?
Are you to meet your new masters still?
Who remembers the fortress as a warm place
And longs for a realm full of grace
You're one of them, are you not?
You hope the rumour will die young
But sometimes a flare goes up
And you see where everyone has gone

[Chorus]
Are we sure this blaze
Set to burn our city? (La France)
Will not bring light to it? (La France)
This one you cannot cancel
Living on rights they never give (La France)
In return
Now pity (La France)
Is quite the sorry counsel (La France)
Is but a sorry counsel
This one you shouldn't cancel

[Post-Chorus]
La France Nouvelle
La France Nouvelle
La France Nouvelle

[Bridge]
They set their blackest flag (La France Nouvelle)
Within the very soul (La France Nouvelle)
Of this land once soft (La France Nouvelle)
Soft and virginal (La France Nouvelle)
To violate our core (La France Nouvelle)
In this spiritual war (La France Nouvelle)
Against the consensus (La France Nouvelle)
Will you stand against us? (La France Nouvelle)
By her own charity slain (La France Nouvelle)
Spat upon and beheaded (La France Nouvelle)
Was it all in vain (La France Nouvelle)
This new life so dreaded (La France Nouvelle)

[Outro]
La France Nouvelle
La France Nouvelle
La France Nouvelle
La France Nouvelle
La France Nouvelle