[ENSEMBLE]
1956—Budapest is rising

[FREDDIE]
I'd have thought you'd support
Any attack on these people

[ENSEMBLE]
1956—Budapest is rising

[FREDDIE]
On the people who ran
Mindlessly over your childhood
Don't let them fool you
For thirty years on, they're the same

[ENSEMBLE]
1956—Budapest is fighting
1956—Budapest is falling

[FREDDIE]
They see chess as a war
Playing with pawns just like Poland

[ENSEMBLE]
1956—Budapest is dying
[FREDDIE]
If you walk out on me
You're really betraying your father
Were he alive now
He'd surely be dying of shame

[FLORENCE]
You know that there's nothing I've done
That he'd be ashamed of in my whole life!
Why'd you have to do this to me?