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?



EVA

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



CHE and EVA

There is evil, ever around, fundamental

System of government quite incidental



EVA

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



CHE

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?



EVA

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 delighted



If 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



CHE and EVA

There is evil, ever around, fundamental

System of government quite incidental



EVA

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--O 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