Waltz For Eva And Che (Original Cast Recording/1979)

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 a savior

When those who oppose you are stepped on

Or cut up, or simply disappear?

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

There is evil, ever around

Fundamental system of government, quite incidental

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

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

Than have no impossible dream?

Allow me before you slink off to the sidelines

I'll pay your fair gift three cheers but first tell me who'd be delighted

To witness me the top world's greatest problems

From war to pollution, no hope of solution

Even if I live for one hundred years

There is evil, ever around

Fundamental system of government, quite incidental

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, everyday more, Oh 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