Chess London movie - The American and Florence / Nobody's Side lyrics
rate me<br>
[FLORENCE]<br>
You want to lose your only friend?<br>
Well, keep it up, you're doing fine<br>
Why this humiliation?<br>
Why treat me like a fool?<br>
I've taken shit for seven years<br>
And I won't take it anymore<br>
<br>
[THE AMERICAN]<br>
I'm only teasing Soviets<br>
With gentle bonhomie<br>
And you've a better reason to be anti-them than me.<br>
<br>
[FLORENCE]<br>
There's a time and there's a place.<br>
<br>
[THE AMERICAN]<br>
Is this the girl who always said<br>
She wants to know the truth?<br>
<br>
[FLORENCE]<br>
There's a time and there's a place...<br>
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[CHORUS]<br>
1956 -- Budapest is rising<br>
1956 -- Budapest is fighting<br>
1956 -- Budapest is falling<br>
1956 -- Budapest is dying<br>
<br>
[THE AMERICAN]<br>
I'd have thought you'd support<br>
Any attack on these people<br>
On the people who ran<br>
Mindlessly over your childhood<br>
Don't let them fool you for<br>
Thirty years on they're the same<br>
<br>
They see chess as a war<br>
Playing with pawns just like Poland<br>
If you walk out on me<br>
They will have won their first battle<br>
Wouldn't your father<br>
Have begged you to stay in the game?<br>
<br>
[FLORENCE]<br>
He would -- but he didn't know you<br>
He'd loathe your behaviour and so do I --<br>
Why'd you have to do this to me?<br>
<br>
What's going on around me<br>
Is barely making sense<br>
I need some explanations fast<br>
I see my present partner<br>
In the imperfect tense<br>
And I don't see how we can last<br>
I feel I need a change of cast<br>
Maybe I'm on nobody's side<br>
<br>
And when he gives me reasons<br>
To justify each move<br>
They're getting harder to believe<br>
I know this can't continue<br>
I've still a lot to prove<br>
There must be more I could achieve<br>
But I don't have the nerve to leave<br>
<br>
Everybody's playing the game<br>
But nobody's rules are the same<br>
Nobody's on nobody's side<br>
Better learn to go it alone<br>
Recognize you're out on your own<br>
Nobody's on nobody's side<br>
<br>
The one I should not think of<br>
Keeps rolling through my mind<br>
And I don't want to let that go<br>
No lovers ever faithful<br>
No contract truly signed<br>
There's nothing certain left to know<br>
And how the cracks begin to show!<br>
<br>
Never make a promise or plan<br>
Take a little love where you can<br>
Nobody's on nobody's side<br>
Never stay too long in your bed<br>
Never lose your heart, use your head<br>
Nobody's on nobody's side<br>
<br>
Never take a stranger's advice<br>
Never let a friend fool you twice<br>
Nobody's on nobody's side<br>
Everybody's playing the game<br>
But nobody's rules are the same<br>
Nobody's on nobody's side<br>
<br>
Never leave a moment too soon<br>
Never waste a hot afternoon<br>
Nobody's on nobody's side<br>
Never stay a minute too long<br>
Don't forget the best will go wrong<br>
Nobody's on nobody's side<br>
<br>
Never be the first to believe<br>
Never be the last to deceive<br>
Nobody's on nobody's side<br>
Never make a promise or plan...<br>
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