lyrics by Tim Rice, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
  vocals by Madonna and Antonio Banderas
  Disc 2, Track 12, Time: 4:13
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  (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 you 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 on,
  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 the bourgeoisie 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 short-sighted
  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 mark 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?
    Oh what I'd give for a hundred years
  But the physical interferes
  Every day more, O 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