Florence 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 sh** for seven years And I won't take it anymore. The american 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. The american Is this the girl always said She wants to know the truth? Florence There's a time and there's a place... Choir (In background throughout entire sequence) 1956--Budapest is rising 1956--Budapest is fighting
1956--Budapest is falling 1956--Budapest is dying The american I'd have thought you'd support Any attack on these people On the people who ran Mindlessly over your childhood Don't let them fool you for Thirty years on they're the same They see chess as a war Playing with pawns just like Poland If you walk out on me They will have won the first battle Wouldn't your father Have begged you to stay in the game? Florence He would--but he didn't know you He'd loathe your behavior and so do I-- Why'd you have to do this to me?