Florence
You want to lose your only friend?
Well keep it up you're doing fine
Why this humiliation?
Why treat me like a fool?
I've taken shit for seven years
And I won't take it anymore
The American
I'm only teasing Soviets
With gentle bonhomie
And you've a better reason to be anti-them than me
Florence
There's a time and there's a place
The American
Is this the girl who always said
She wants to know the truth?
Florence
There's a time and there's a place
Choir (In background)
1956 Budapest is rising
1956 Budapest is fighting
1956 Budapest is falling
1956 Budapest is dying
The American
I'd have thought you'd support
Any attack on these people
On the people who ran
Mindlessly over your childhood
Don't let them fool you
For thirty years on they're the same
They see chess as a war
Playing with pawns just like Poland
If you walk out on me
They will have won the first battle
Wouldn't your father
Have begged you to stay in the game
Florence
He would - but he didn't know you
He'd loathe your behaviour and so do I -
Why'd you have to do this to me ?
What's going on around me
Is barely making sense
I need some explanations fast
I see my present partner
In the imperfect tense
And I don't see how we can last
I feel I need a change of cast
Maybe I'm on nobody's side
And when he gives me reasons
To justify each move
They're getting harder to believe
I know this can't continue
I've still a lot to prove
There must be more I could achieve
But I don't have the nerve to leave |