[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
Enter, monsieur commissar

(THUY enters)

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

(the ENGINEER and the others leave)

THUY
I knew in time faith 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 anymore!
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
Has 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

(the ENGINEER re-enters)

ENGINEER
Come on now, princess, get off 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"

(from outside, soldiers are heard marching by)

You hear those soldiers out there

They'll do whatever I say

KIM
I cannot change how I feel!

THUY
Come inside!
I think you can change before my eyes

This me-my has just been found
She hid the day we closed the bars
Show her that we don't forget
No one is cured here without scars

SOLDIER #1
You are a woman who lived without shame

SOLDIER #2
You're an infection left over from war

SOLDIER #3
You have dishonored the national name

SOLDIER #4
Re-education will cure the disease

SOLDIER #5
You must be shown what we do to a leach

SOLDIER #6
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

THUY
Get out!!
Everybody out!!