(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

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



(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