This is the by far the weirdest song in the movie. Eva is unconscious
in the hospital and Che is collapsed on a street corner after being in
a riot. They meet in a dream-like sequence and begin dancing. They're
just ticked at each other too, but watch the facial expressions really
close. Confusion confusion, what is with these two? Anyway, another
thing to look out for is the backgrounds. It switches from fine ballrooms
to butcher shops and other poor neighborhoods. This is one of my favorite
songs.
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 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 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 those don't know, sounds like bor zwah zeers 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 shortsighted
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 mock 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?
They dance some more, Che spins Eva around a lot and it looks
like she's having trouble keeping up. He doesn't notice, or is ignoring, this and
she finally collapses on the floor.
Eva: Oh what I'd give for a hundred years
but the physical interferes
everyday more.
Oh 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.
Che fades off into the shadows leaving Eva alone.