The American and Florence / Nobody's Side

You wanna lose your only friend?

Well, keep it up, you're doin' fine

Why this humiliation?

Why treat me like a fool?

I've taken shit for seven years and I won't take it anymore

I'm only teasing Soviets with gentle bonhomie

And you've a better reason to be anti-them than me?

There's a time and there's a place

Is this the girl who always said she wants to know the truth?

There's a time and there's a place

1956, Budapest is rising

1956, Budapest is rising

I'd have thought you support any attack on these people

1956, Budapest is rising

On the people who ran mindlessly over your childhood

Don't let them fool you for thirty years on they're the same

1956, Budapest is fighting

1956, Budapest is falling

They see chess as a war

Playing with pawns just like Poland

1956, Budapest is dying

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?

He would, but he didn't know you

He'd loathe your behavior and so do I

Why'd ya have to do this to me?

What's goin' 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 hard 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 playin' 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 lover's 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 ya twice

Nobody's on nobody's side

Everybody's playin' the game

But nobody's rules are the same

Nobody's on nobody's side

(Never leave a moment too soon) Never leave a moment too soon

Never waste a hot afternoon

Nobody's on nobody's side

(Never stay too long) Never stay a minute too long

Don't forget the best will go wrong

Nobody's on nobody's side

Never be the the first to believe

Never be the last to deceive (Never be the last to deceive)

Nobody's on nobody's side

Never make a promise or plan

Take a little love where you can

Nobody's on nobody's side