text: 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
  Theres one thing I never got clear
  How can you claim youre our savior
  When those who oppose you are stepped on
  Or cut up, or simply disappear?
  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 dont care what the bourgeoisie say
  Im not in business for them
  But to give all my descamisados
  A magical moment or two
  There is evil, ever around
  Fundamental system of government
  Quite incidental
  So what are my chances of honest advances?
  Id say low
  Better to win by admitting my sin
  Than to lose with a halo
  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?
  Allow me to help you slink off to the sidelines
  And mark your adieu with three cheers
  But first tell me whod be delighted
  If I said Id take on the worlds greatest problems
  From war to pollution, no hope of solution
  Even if I lived for one hundred years
  There is evil, ever around
  Fundamental system of government
  Quite incidental
  So go, if youre 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 Id 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 thats falling apart?
  A serious flaw, I hope You know that