Benny Andersson, Tim Rice, and Bjorn Ulvaeus

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

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 who always said

She wants to know the truth?

FLORENCE:

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

CHORUS (repeating):

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 their 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 behaviour and so do I --

Why'd you have to do this to me?

What's going on around me

Is barely making sense

I need some explanations fast

I see my present partner

In the imperfect tense

And I don't see how we can last

I feel I need a change of cast

Maybe I'm on nobody's side

And when he gives me reasons

To justify each move

They're getting harder to believe

I know this can't continue-