Karaoké The American and Florence / Nobody's Side Chess

You wanna 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 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

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

On the people who ran mindlessly over your childhood

Don't let them fool you for thirty years on

They're the same

They see chess as a war

Playing with pawns just like Poland

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 behaviour 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 achieve

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 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 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's side

Never ever be the man

Never be the first to believe

Never be the last to deceive to believe

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