Evita Soundtrack Waltz For Eva And Che Lyrics

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

 I'll mark your ado with three cheers

 But first tell me who'd be delighted

 

 If I said I'd take on the

 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