[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
[BOTH] 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
Then have no impossible dream?
[EVA] Allow me
before you
Slink off to the sidelines
I'll pay your fare
Give three cheers
But first tell me
Who'd be delighted
To witness me tackle
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?
[EVA] 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