The Fall Of Saigon Lyrics

KIM overwhelmed at the prospect of finally being reunited with CHRIS, 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 KIM wait for me CHRIS 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, look! 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