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Evita - Dice are Rolling Lyrics |
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Broadway revival 2012
Evita the Musical - Dice are Rolling Lyrics
PERON:
Dice are rolling, the knives are out
I see every bad sign in the book
And as far as they can--overweight to a man!
They have that lean and hungry look
EVA:
But we still have the magic we've always had!
The descamisados still worship me--
We arrived thanks to them and no-one else;
no thanks to your generals--a clutch of stuffed cuckoos!
PERON:
It's not a question of a big parade,
Proving we're big with the mobs on the street--
EVA:
You're wrong--the people, my people--
PERON:
The people belong to no-one!
They are fickle, can be manipulated, they don't matter!
However much they love you now it matters more that
as far as my stuffed cuckoos are concerned,
You don't politically exist!
EVA:
So I don't exist! So I count for nothing!
Try saying that on the street when all over the world I am Argentina!
Most of your generals wouldn't be recognized by their own mothers!
But they'll admit I exist when I become vice-president!
PERON:
That won't work... we've been through all of this before,
they'd fight you tooth and nail--you'd never overcome
them with a hundred rallies and even if you did--
EVA:
Yes?
PERON:
Your little body's slowly breaking down
You're losing speed,
You're losing strength--not style-- that goes on
Flourishing forever, but your eyes, your smile
Do not have the sparkle of their fantastic past
If you climb one more mountain it could be your last
EVA:
I'm not that ill--bad moments come but they go
Some days are fine, some a little bit harder
But that doesn't mean
I should change my routine
Have you ever seen
Me defeated?
Don't you forget what I've been through and yet
I'm still standing
And if I am ill--that could even be to your advantage!
PERON:
Advantage? I'm trying to point out that you are dying!
This talk of death is chilling--of course you're not going to die!
EVA:
Then I must now be vice-president!
And I shall have my people come to choose
Two Perons to wear their country's crowns
In thousands in my squares and avenues
Emptying their villages and towns
Where every soul in home or shack or stall
Knows me as Argentina--that is all
Oh I shall be a great vice-president!
PERON:
So what happens now?
So what happens now?
EVA:
Where am I going to?
PERON:
Don't ask anymore
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Dice are Rolling Lyrics from Evita the Musical
Evita the Musical Lyrics
SYNOPSIS
Requiem for Evita
Oh, What a Circus
On This Night of a Thousand Stars
Eva, Beware of the City
Buenos Aires Lyrics
Goodnight and Thank You
The Art of the Possible
Charity Concert
I'd Be Surprisingly Good For You
Another Suitcase in Another Hall
Perón's Latest Flame
A New Argentina
On the Balcony of the Casa Rosada
Don't Cry for Me Argentina
High Flying, Adored
Rainbow High
Rainbow Tour
The Chorus Girl Hasn't Learned the Lines
And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out)
Santa Evita
Waltz for Eva and Che
You Must Love Me
She Is a Diamond
Dice are Rolling
Eva's Final Broadcast
Montage
Lament
No Llores Por Mi Argentina
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