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
I`ve still a lot to prove
There must be more I could achieve
But I don`t have the nerve to leave
Everybody`s playing the game
But nobody`s rules are the same
Nobody`s on nobody`s side
Better learn to go it alone
Recognize you`re out on your own
Nobody`s on nobody`s side
The one I should not think of
Keeps rolling through my mind
And I don`t want to let that go
No lovers ever faithful
No contract truly signed
There`s nothing certain left to know
And how the cracks begin to show!
Never make a promise or plan
Take a little love where you can
Nobody`s on nobody`s side
Never stay too long in your bed
Never lose your heart, use your head
Nobody`s on nobody`s side
Never take a stranger`s advice
Never let a friend fool you twice
Nobody`s on nobody`s side
Everybody`s playing the game
But nobody`s rules are the same
Nobody`s on nobody`s side
Never leave a moment too soon
Never waste a hot afternoon
Nobody`s on nobody`s side
Never stay a minute too long
Don`t forget the best will go wrong
Nobody`s on nobody`s side
Never be the first to believe
Never be the last to deceive
Nobody`s on nobody`s side
Never make a promise or plan...
