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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
- Act 1
- Cinema in Buenos Aires, 26 July 1952
- Requiem for Evita / Oh What a Circus
- Eva and Magaldi / Eva, Beware of the City
- On This Night of a Thousand Stars
- Buenos Aires
- Goodnight and Thank You
- The Lady's Got Potential
- Art of the Possible
- Charity Concert
- I'd Be Surprisingly Good For You
- Hello and Goodbye
- Another Suitcase in Another Hall
- Peron's Latest Flame
- New Argentina
- Act 2
- On the Balcony of the Casa Rosada
- Don't Cry for Me Argentina
- High Flying, Adored
- Rainbow High
- Rainbow Tour
- Actress Hasn't Learned the Lines
- And the Money Kept Rolling In
- Santa Evita
- Waltz for Eva and Che
- You Must Love Me
- She Is a Diamond
- Dice Are Rolling
- Eva's Final Broadcast
- Latin Chant
- Lament