OPA!!!!

Waltz for Eva and Che

Madonna

Composição: Tim Rice

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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? 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
...To have no impossible dream?  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 delightedIf 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 ... 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
... Every day 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.