Waltz for Eva and 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?

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 descamisado's

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

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

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 tattering state

But not here, dear

Is that clear, dear?

Ohh, 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