Chess (Complete Cast Album):1956 Budapest Is Rising

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

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

FREDDIE
1956, Budapest is rising
1956, Budapest is fighting

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

FLORENCE
1956, Budapest is falling
1956, Budapest is dying

FREDDIE
They see chess as a war,
playing with pawns, just like Poland
If you walk out on me
they've got you like they got 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!