Chess

The American And Florence
FLORENCE: You want to lose our 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: 1956, Budapest is rising SongtexteTHE AMERICAN: I'd have thought you'd support Any attack on these people On the people who ran Mindlessly over you childhood Don't let them fool you for Thirty years on they're the same CHOIR: 1956, Budapest is fighting, 1956, Budapest is falling THE AMERICAN: They see chess as a war Playing with pawns just like Poland CHOIR: 1956, Budapest is dying THE AMERICAN: 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 behavior and so do I Why'd you have to do this to me? (Leads into Nobody's Side) Aus Songtexte Mania