Back in Town

Lyrics

[ENGINEER] Coo Coo Princess, look who's here Your resurrected Engineer Don't ask me how I tracked you down Who has the sharpest nose in town? I'm here to throw a rope before you drown For men will always be men You change the regime, the lust doesn't stop You and I will team up again Together we'll reap the cream of the crop [KIM] Engineer, I don't want you here I gave up that life, you must understand [ENGINEER] Out that door is a big shot who waits Like a pup to come up and eat out of your hand Kim, the good times are back [KIM] Don't go on, it's too late [ENGINEER] Not too late for my star [KIM] Please let me hide in peace [ENGINEER] Better to screw the police Come in, Monsieur Commissar [THUY] Three years I've been away I kept faith we would meet [ENGINEER] Me, I found her for you [THUY] You, out in the street I knew in time fate would weave a design Tying your life and mine into one Each day I'd wait, like a soldier must wait Trusting victory to come with the sun After the fight in the still of the night I would picture my bride, bright as jade You'll be my wife, we will build a new life And fulfill the vow our fathers made [KIM] My father's vow I can't honor today And I pray in my heart he'll forgive What you want now are some words I can't say If I lied to you how could I live? [THUY] Don't say any more Not a word You can change You can learn Look at me Don't decide too soon [KIM] Somewhere deep in my soul Shines the smallest of lights And no wind blows it out It burns steady and strong Through the darkest of nights Dju vui vay Yu doi my Dju vui vay Vao nyay moy I made a promise once with these words Which neither time nor distance has changed He will come to me still [THUY] You must be mad, your American Jack Is gone for good and he'll never come back They ran away with the skin they could save The ones who stayed here are dead in a grave [ENGINEER] Come on now, Princess, get off of your cloud I'm sorry, sir, she was talking so loud The Commissar is a powerful man A girl with brains makes a life where she can Princess, remember your place Don't make people lose face [THUY] Why do you look away? I can end all this shame All you need say is "Yes" [SOLDIERS] On silent feet it came [THUY] You hear those soldiers outside? [SOLDIERS] Breathing a sheet of flame [THUY & SOLDIERS] They'll do whatever I say (It came) [SOLDIERS] Closing in on its rightful prey [KIM] I cannot change what I feel [SOLDIERS & THUY, spoken] Burning a hundred years away (Come inside) [THUY & SOLDIERS] I think you will change before my eyes (To camp! To camp!) [SOLDIERS] The traitors to the camps [THUY] This me-my has just been found She hid the day we closed the bars Show her that we don't forget No one betrays us without scars [SOLDIER 1] You are a woman who lived without shame [SOLDIER 2] You're an infection left over from war [SOLDIER 1] You have dishonored the national name [SOLDIER 2] Reeducation will cure the disease [SOLDIER 1] You must be shown what we do to a leech [SOLDIER 2] See how we teach an American's whore [ENGINEER] I have heard hundreds of speeches like these Take it from me, you don't want to hear more! [THUY] It's time to act, my friends, it's time [SOLDIERS] Her face betrays her crime She must pay, and her partner too? [ENGINEER] Are you waiting for them to kill me? Did you not get what he said? There's a big screw loose inside you I will rip it out of your head There's a mad dog on the rampage If you think he'll change, save your breath Just say "Yes," I don't care if you love him Princess, life has it all over death! [KIM] I have a husband I love Real as the sun in the sky I cannot live with a lie [THUY] Do you see now who has power? Do you still think crazy things? [KIM] Chris will come to me like the phoenix And he'll take me off on his wings [THUY] You're a traitor to your country [KIM] If I am, then let it be [KIM, THUY & ENGINEER] I am talking of life or death now I am talking of staying free [ENGINEER] So there it is now, I'll be moving on If you don't need me, I'd rather be gone Two kids in love don't need strangers around [THUY] You just get out [ENGINEER] Right, I won't make a sound [THUY] And as for you Come with me [KIM, spoken] No! [KIM] There is a secret That you don't know There is a force here I never show You say it's treason To keep my vow Season after season I survived somehow If you want the reason I will show you now [KIM, spoken] Tam! [KIM pulls back the curtain and out runs TAM, a scared two year old boy. KIM hugs him.] Look, Thuy, this is my son He has kept me alive Now you see why I must tell you "No!"