Madonna

Madonna - Evita - part 1 lyrics

1. A CINEMA IN BUENOS AIRES, 26 JULY 1952

(An audience is watching a movie. Suddenly the film stops. The people in the cinema begin to protest but are silenced by an announcement)

THE VOICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE PRESS

It is my sad duty to inform you that Eva Peron, spiritual leader of the nation, entered immortality at 8.25 this evening.

2. REQUIEM FOR EVITA

(EVA's funeral. CHE is the only non-participant. He moves through the mourners, apparently unseen.)

CROWD

Requiem aeternum

dona Evita

Requiem Evita

Evita

Evita

3. OH WHAT A CIRCUS

CHE

Oh what a circus!

Oh what a show!

Argentina has gone to town

Over the death of an actress called Eva Peron

We've all gone crazy

Mourning all day and mourning all night

Falling over ourselves to get all

Of the misery right

Oh what an exit! That's how to go!

When they're ringing your curtain down

Demand to be buried like Eva Peron

It's quite a sunset

And good for the country in a roundabout way

We've made the front page of all the world's papers today

But who is this Santa Evita?

Why all this howling hysterical sorrow?

What kind of goddess has lived among us?

How will we ever get by without her?

She had her moments--she had some style

The best show in town was the crowd

Outside the Casa Rosada crying, "Eva Peron"

But that's all gone now

As soon as the smoke from the funeral clears

We're all going to see and how she did nothing for years!

CROWD

Salve regina mater misericordiae

Vita dulcedo et spes nostra

Salve salve regina

Ad te clamamus exules filii Eva

Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes

O clemens o pia

CHE

You let down your people Evita

You were supposed to have been immortal

That's all they wanted

Not much to ask for

But in the end you could not deliver

Sing you fools! But you got it wrong

Enjoy your prayers because you haven't got long

Your queen is dead, your king is through

She's not coming back to you

Show business kept us all alive

Since 17 October 1945

But the star has gone, the glamour's worn thin

That's a pretty bad state for a state to be in

Instead of government we had a stage

Instead of ideas a prima donna's rage

Instead of help we were given a crowd

She didn't say much but she said it loud

Sing you fools? But you got it wrong

Enjoy your prayers because you haven't got long

Your queen is dead, your king is through

She's not coming back to you

CROWD

Salve regina mater misericordiae

Vita dulcedo et spes nostra

Salve salve regina Peron

Ad te clamamus exules filii Eva

Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes

O clemens o pia

EVA

Don't cry for me Argentina

For I am ordinary, unimportant

And undeserving of such attention

Unless we all are--I think we all are

So share my glory, so share my coffin

So share my glory, so share my coffin

CHE

It's our funeral too

4. ON THIS NIGHT OF A THOUSAND STARS (Flashback to 1934 and to a nightclub in Junin, EVA's home town. EVA DUARTE is fifteen. The cabaret is nearly over. MAGALDI is singing with great gusto.)

CHE

Now Eva Peron had every disadvantage you need if

You're going to succeed. No money, no class, no father,

No bright lights--there was nowhere she'd been at the age Of fifteen, as this tango singer found out.

Agustin Magaldi--who has the distinction of being the First man to be of use to Eva Duarte.

MAGALDI

On this night of a thousand stars

Let me take you to heaven's door

Where the music of love's guitars

Plays for evermore!

In the glow of those twinkling lights

We shall love through eternity

On this night in a million nights

Fly away with me!

I never dreamed that a kiss could be as sweet as this

--now I know that it can

I used to wander alone without a love of my own

I was a desperate man

But all my grief disappeared and all the sorrow I feared

Wasn't there anymore

On that magical day when you first came my way

Mi Amor!

On this night... On this night... On this night of a thousand stars

Let me take you to heaven's door

Where the music of love's guitars

Plays for evermore!

5.EVA AND MAGALDI / EVA BEWARE OF THE CITY (MAGALDI joins EVA and her family--mother, 3 sisters, brother--at their table. CHE is loitering nearby at the bar.)

EVA

To think that a man, as famous as you are, could love a Poor little nothing like me!

I want to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple!

EVA and FAMILY

She wants to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple!

CHE

Just listen to that! They're onto you Magaldi! I'd get out

While you can

EVA

It's happened at last--I'm starting to get started--I'm moving out with my man

MAGALDI

Now Eva don't get carried away-

EVA

Monotony past--suburbia departed--who could ever be Fond of the back of beyond?

MAGALDI

Don't hear words that I didn't say

EVA's FAMILY

What's that? You'd desert the girl you love?

MAGALDI

The girl I love? What are you talking about?

EVA's FAMILY

She really brightened up your out of town engagement,

She gave you all she had--she wasn't in your contract

--you must be quite relieved that no-one's told the papers

--so far-

EVA

I want to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple!

Would I have done what I did if I hadn't thought, if I Hadn't known, we would stay together?

CHE

Seems to me there's no point in resisting, she's made up her mind, you've no choice.

Why don't you be the man who discovered her?

You'll never be remembered for your voice.

MAGALDI

The city can be paradise for those who have the cash, the class and the connections--what you need to make a splash.

The likes of you get swept up in the morning with the trash--if you were rich or middle class-

EVA

Screw the middle classes! I will never accept them!

My father's Other family were middle class and we were kept out of Sight, hidden from view, at his funeral!

DESK CLERK

Do all your one night stands give you this trouble?

MAGALDI

Eva, beware of the city It's hungry and cold, can't be controlled, it is mad

Those who are fools are swallowed up whole

And those who are not become

What they should not become

Changed--in short they go bad

EVA

Bad is good for me--I'm bored, so clean and so ignored

I've only been predictable--respectable!

Birds fly out of here so why oh why oh why the hell can't I I only want variety--of society!

I want to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple!

EVA and FAMILY

She wants to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple!

MAGALDI

Five years from now I shall come back

And finally say, you have your way--come to town

But you'll look at me with a foreigner's eyes

The magical city a

Younger girl's city, a Fantasy long since put down

EVA

All you've done to me--was that a young girl's fantasy?

I played your city games alright--didn't I?

I already know what cooks, how the dirty city feels and looks

I tasted it last night, didn't I?

I'm going to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple!

EVA and FAMILY

She's going to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple!

MAGALDI

Eva beware your ambition

It's hungry and cold, can't be controlled, will run wild

This in a man is danger enough

But you are a woman, not

Even a woman, not

Very much more than a child and whatever you say

I'll not steal you away!

6. BUENOS AIRES (EVA and MAGALDI arrive in Buenos Aires)

EVA

What's new Buenos Aires?

I'm new--I want to say I'm just a little stuck on you

You'll be on me too!

I get out here Buenos Aires

Stand back--you ought to know what'cha gonna get in me

Just a little touch of star quality!

Fill me up with your heat, with your noise, with your dirt, overdo me

Let me dance to your beat, make it loud. let it hurt, run it through me

Don't hold back you are certain to impress

Tell the driver this is where I'm staying

Hello Buenos Aires!

Get this--just look at me, dressed up somewhere to go

We'll put on a show!

Take me in at your flood, give me speed, give me lights, set me humming

Shoot me up with your blood, wine me up with your nights, watch me coming

All I want is a whole lot of excess

Tell the singer this is where I'm playing

Stand back Buenos Aires!

Because you ought to know what'cha gonna get in me

Just a little touch of star quality!

And if ever I go too far

It's because of the things you are

Beautiful town--I love you

And if I need a moment's rest

Give your lover the very best

Real eiderdown--and silence

You're a tramp, you're a treat, you will shine to the death, you are shoddy

But you're flesh, you are meat, you shall have every breath in my body

Put me down for a lifetime of success

Give me credit--I'll find ways of paying

Rio de la Plata!

Florida!

Corrientes!

Nueve de Julio!

All I want to know!

Stand back Buenos Aires!

Because you oughta know what'cha gonna get in me

Just a little touch of Just a little touch of

Just a little touch of star quality!

7. ANOTHER SUITCASE IN ANOTHER HALL

EVA

I don't expect my love affairs to last for long

Never fool myself that my dreams will come true

Being used to trouble I anticipate it

But all the same I hate it--wouldn't you?

So what happens now?

CHE

Another suitcase in another hall

EVA

So what happens now?

CHE

Take your picture off another wall

EVA

Where am I going to?

CHE

You'll get by, you always have before

EVA

Where am I going to?

Time and time again I've said that I don't care

That I'm immune to gloom, that I'm hard through and through

But every time it matters all my words desert me

So anyone can hurt me--and they do

So what happens now?

CHE

Another suitcase in another hall

EVA

So what happens now?

CHE

Take your picture off another wall

EVA

Where am I going to?

CHE You'll get by you always have before

EVA

Where am I going go?

Call in three months time and I'll be fine I know

Well maybe not that fine, but I'll survive anyhow

I won't recall the names and places of each sad occasion

But that's no consolation--here and now

So what happens now?

CHE

Another suitcase in another hall

EVA

So what happens now?

CHE

Take your picture off another wall

EVA

Where am I going to?

CHE

You'll get by, you always have before

EVA

Where am I going to?

CHE

Don't ask anymore

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