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(MAGALDI joins EVA and her family--mother, 3 sisters,
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brother--at their table. CHE is loitering nearby at the
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bar.)
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EVA
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To think that a man, as famous as you are, could love a
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Poor little nothing like me!
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I want to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple!
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EVA and FAMILY
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She wants to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple!
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CHE
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Just listen to that! They're onto you Magaldi! I'd get out
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While you can
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EVA
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It's happened at last--I'm starting to get started--I'm
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Moving out with my man
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MAGALDI
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Now Eva don't get carried away-
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EVA
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Monotony past--suburbia departed--who could ever be
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Fond of the back of beyond?
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MAGALDI
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Don't hear words that I didn't say
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EVA's FAMILY
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What's that? You'd desert the girl you love?
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MAGALDI
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The girl I love? What are you talking about?
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EVA's FAMILY
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She really brightened up your out of town engagement,
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She gave you all she had--she wasn't in your contract
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--you must be quite relieved that no-one's told the papers
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--so far-
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EVA
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I want to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple!
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Would I have done what I did if I hadn't thought, if I
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Hadn't known, we would stay together?
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CHE
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Seems to me there's no point in resisting, she's made up
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her mind, you've no choice. Why don't you be the man
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who discovered her? You'll never be remembered for
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your voice.
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MAGALDI
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The city can be paradise for those who have the cash, the
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class and the connections--what you need to make a
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splash. The likes of you get swept up in the morning
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with the trash--if you were rich or middle class-
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EVA
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Screw the middle classes! I will never accept them! My father's
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Other family were middle class and we were kept out of
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Sight, hidden from view, at his funeral!
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CHE
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Do all your one night stands give you this trouble?
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MAGALDI
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Eva, beware of the city
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It's hungry and cold, can't be controlled, it is mad
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Those who are fools are swallowed up whole
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And those who are not become
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What they should not become
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Changed--in short they go bad
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EVA
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Bad is good for me--I'm bored, so clean and so ignored
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I've only been predictable--respectable!
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Birds fly out of here so why oh why oh why the hell
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can't I
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I only want variety--of society!
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I want to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple!
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EVA and FAMILY
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She wants to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple!
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MAGALDI
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Five years from now I shall come back
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And finally say, you have your way--come to town
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But you'll look at me with a foreigner's eyes
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The magical city a
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Younger girl's city, a
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Fantasy long since put down
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EVA
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All you've done to me--was that a young girl's fantasy?
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I played your city games alright--didn't I?
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I already know what cooks, how the dirty city feels
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and looks
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I tasted it last night, didn't I?
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I'm going to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple!
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EVA and FAMILY
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She's going to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple!
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MAGALDI
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Eva beware your ambition
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It's hungry and cold, can't be controlled, will run wild
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This in a man is danger enough
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But you are a woman, not
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Even a woman, not
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Very much more than a child and whatever you say
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I'll not steal you away!
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Eva And Magaldi , Eva Beware Of The City
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| Madonna |
