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Waltz for Eva and Che Lyrics


[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
Last Update: June, 10th 2013

Evita Lyrics

  1. Act 1
  2. Cinema in Buenos Aires, 26 July 1952
  3. Requiem for Evita / Oh What a Circus
  4. Eva and Magaldi / Eva, Beware of the City
  5. On This Night of a Thousand Stars
  6. Buenos Aires
  7. Goodnight and Thank You
  8. The Lady's Got Potential
  9. Art of the Possible
  10. Charity Concert
  11. I'd Be Surprisingly Good For You
  12. Hello and Goodbye
  13. Another Suitcase in Another Hall
  14. Peron's Latest Flame
  15. New Argentina
  16. Act 2
  17. On the Balcony of the Casa Rosada
  18. Don't Cry for Me Argentina
  19. High Flying, Adored
  20. Rainbow High
  21. Rainbow Tour
  22. Actress Hasn't Learned the Lines
  23. And the Money Kept Rolling In
  24. Santa Evita
  25. Waltz for Eva and Che
  26. You Must Love Me
  27. She Is a Diamond
  28. Dice Are Rolling
  29. Eva's Final Broadcast
  30. Latin Chant
  31. Lament

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