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EVITA lyrics : "Waltz For Eva And Che"

[Che:]
Tell me before I waltz out of your life
Before turning my back on the past

Forgive my impertinent behavior
But how long do you think this pantomime can last?
Tell me before I ride off in the sunset

There's one thing I never got clear
How can you claim you're our savior
When those who oppose you are stepped on,

Or cut up, or simply disappear?

[Eva:]

Tell me before you get onto your bus
Before joining the forgotten brigade
How can one person like me, say,

Alter the time-honored way the game is played?
Tell me before you get onto your high horse
Just what you expect me to do

I don't care what the bourgeoisie say
I'm not in business for them
But to give all my descamisados

A magical moment or two

[Che and Eva:]

There is evil, ever around
Fundamental system of government
Quite incidental


[Eva:]
So what are my chances of honest advances?

I'd say low
Better to win by admitting my sin
Than to lose with a halo


[Che:]
Tell me before I seek worthier pastures

And thereby restore self-esteem
How can you be so short-sighted
To look never further than this week or next week

To have no impossible dream?

[Eva:]

Allow me to help you slink off to the sidelines
And mark your adieu with three cheers
But first tell me who'd be delighted

If I said I'd take on the world's greatest problems
From war to pollution, no hope of solution
Even if I lived for one hundred years


[Che and Eva:]
There is evil, ever around

Fundamental system of government
Quite incidental


[Eva:]
So go, if you're able, to somewhere unstable
And stay there

Whip up your hate in some tottering state
But not here, dear
Is that clear, dear?


Oh what I'd give for a hundred years
But the physical interferes

Every day more, O my Creator
What is the good of the strongest heart
In a body that's falling apart?

A serious flaw, I hope You know that

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