Waltz For Eva And Che Lyrics

Waltz For Eva And Che lyrics

Madonna and Antonio Banderas---Waltz For Eva And Che 

 lyrics by Tim Rice, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber 

 

 

 (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