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
THE 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)