Nobodys Side Lyrics - Singles - Chess

Nobody's Side 

>From the Musical Chess 

-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 any more 

-The American 

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 

-The American 

Is this the girl who always said 

She wants to know the truth? 

-Florence 

There's a time and there's a place 

(1956, Budapest is rising 

1956, Budapest is rising) 

-The American 

I'd have thought you'd 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 the first battle 

Wouldn't your father 

Have begged you to stay in the game 

-Florence 

He would, but he didn't know you 

He'd loathe your behavior, and so do I 

Why'd you have to do this to me? 

What's going 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 harder to believe 

I know this can't continue 

I've still a lot to prove 

There must be more I could achive 

But I don't have the nerve to leave 

Everybody's playing 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 when 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 you twice 

Nobody's on nobody's side 

Everybody's playing the game 

But nobody's rules are the same 

Nobody's on nobody's side 

Never leave a moment too soon 

Never waste a hot afternoon 

Nobody's on nobody's side 

Never stay a minute too long 

Don't forget the best will go wrong 

Nobody's on nobody'side 

Never be the first to believe 

Never be the last to deceive 

Nobody's on nobody's side 

Never make a promise or plan 

Take a little love when you can 

Nobody's on nobody's side