1956 - Budapest Is Rising by Chess in Concert Lyrics

[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, spoken]
Well, how about here and now, are you for me or are you for them?

[FLORENCE]
There's a time and there's a place...
[SOLOISTS]
1956 - Budapest is rising
1956 - Budapest is rising

[FREDDIE]
I'd have thought you'd support
Any attack on these people

[SOLOISTS]
1956 - Budapest is rising

[FREDDIE]
On the people who ran
Mindlessly over your childhood
Don't let them fool you
For 30 years on
They're the same

[SOLOISTS]
1956 - Budapest is fighting
1956 - Budapest is falling

[FREDDIE]
They see chess as a war
Playing with pawns just like Poland
[SOLOISTS]
1956 - Budapest is dying

[FREDDIE]
If you walk out on me
You're really betraying 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!
Why'd you have to do this to me?