1956 - Budapest Is Rising lyrics

[FLORENCE]

You want to lose your only friend?

Well, keep it up, you're doing fine

Why this humiliation?

Why treat me like a fool?

I've taken shit for seven years

And I won't take it anymore

[FREDDIE]

I'm only teasing Soviets

With gentle bonhomie

And you've a better reason to be anti-them than me

[FLORENCE]

There's a time and there's a place

[FREDDIE, spoken]

Well, how about here and now, are you for me or are you for them?

[FLORENCE]

There's a time and there's a place...

[SOLOISTS]

1956 - Budapest is rising

1956 - Budapest is rising

[FREDDIE]

I'd have thought you'd support

Any attack on these people

[SOLOISTS]

1956 - Budapest is rising

[FREDDIE]

On the people who ran

Mindlessly over your childhood

Don't let them fool you

For 30 years on

They're the same

[SOLOISTS]

1956 - Budapest is fighting

1956 - Budapest is falling

[FREDDIE]

They see chess as a war

Playing with pawns just like Poland

[SOLOISTS]

1956 - Budapest is dying

[FREDDIE]

If you walk out on me

You're really betraying your father

Were he alive now he'd surely

Be dying of shame

[FLORENCE]

You know that there's nothing I've done

That he'd be ashamed of

In my whole life!

Why'd you have to do this to me?

• Artist:Chess (musical)
• Album:Chess In Concert (2008 Live)