作词 : Richard Maltby Jr./Alain Boublil
作曲 : Claude-Michel Schönberg
(KIM recalls the horrifying moments when they were separated during The Fall of Saigon.)
AN OFFICER: Sorry, sergeant, we must accelerate
State department says we evacuate
The word is, we must be out by dawn
ANOTHER OFFICER: Sorry, sergeant, it's straight from Washington
No one leaves the grounds now, not anyone
As fast as we load the planes, we're gone
CHRIS: But my girl is out there!
(A huge CROWD OF VIETNAMESE is pushing at the Embassy gates.)
A MARINE CAPTAIN: (to the crowd) Okay! Keep quiet! Don't shout!
The Ambassador won't leave till everyone's out
The choppers're on their way, there's room for you all
ANOTHER MARINE: They're climbing over the wall!
Get back!
MORE MARINES: Get back! I tell you, don't shout!
The Ambassador won't leave till everyone's out
A MARINE: (entering) Th'Ambassador just sent an order to freeze
THE MARINE CAPTAIN: That's it! No more Vietnamese! Get in!
CHRIS: But my girl is out there!
(in the streets outside the Embassy, KIM can't get through the guards.)
KIM: I'm the wife of a soldier
Please let me through
Help me, who must I pay?
Tell me what I must do
CHRIS: (to an OFFICER) Let me out, I got to go back for my bride
KIM: Listen, someone! My husband is waiting inside
CHRIS: (telephoning, inside the Embassy yard) Please Kim, hear the phone!
I can't get there
Please be home
KIM: (in the street) Please Chris, no one sees!
I am lost here
Find me please!
BOTH: Please, get me through - I don't care how
Don't take my love away, not now
KIM: Oh, Chris CHRIS: Oh Kim
KIM: I can't get free CHRIS: Please get free
KIM: Still I'm with you CHRIS: I am with you
BOTH: Wait for me
THE MARINE CAPTAIN: (to CHRIS) Sorry sergeant, inside the Embassy!
We are pulling out now and there will be
No more reprieves
CHRIS: I got till the old man leaves!
JOHN: Chris, don't be a schmuck -
Th'Ambassador is leaving now
(CHRIS is forced inside the Embassy, whose doors are then barricaded.
The VIETNAMESE are now yelling through the Embassy gates.)
ONE VIETNAMESE: Take me with you!
Take my children
ANOTHER: I have a letter from...!
ANOTHER: I helped the C.I.A.!
CROWD: They'll kill who they find here!
Don't leave us behind here!
A VIETNAMESE: I've a wife who left already
ANOTHER: I have an aunt in New York!
ANOTHER: I have gold, I can pay!
CROWD: There is no one to find here!
They have left us behind here!
(KIM has pushed her way through the gate.)
KIM: I must get in there - listen, anyone!
Please tell my husband... Look! I have his gun!
A VIETNAMESE: Out of my way, if that's all that you've got!
CROWD: If I am here when they come, I'll be shot!
(Inside the compound: MARINES guard the roof helipad.)
CHRIS: Let me go, John, I can't leave her
Why in the world should I be saved instead of her?
CROWD: They'll kill who they find here!
Don't leave us behind here!
JOHN: It's not you, it's the war that's cruel
And if some dreams get smashed, perhaps it's best they were
CROWD and KIM: There is no one to find here!
They have left us behind here!
JOHN: Wake up, my friend, your mercy trip has failed
There's nothing you can do, that ship has sailed
She's not the only one we'll have betrayed
CROWD: Get to the roof, or else we are betrayed!
(the CROWD tries to batter down the fences.)
KIM: (in the yard) Oh, Chris -
I still believe
The heart of you
Is here with me
My heart, against all odds
Holds still
(On the Embassy roof, the last helicopter lands.
CHRIS runs up and down the wall, shouting for KIM.
Finally he is forced to board the helicopter, which takes off.
The nightmare passes - KIM is in her little room with TAM.)