The Fall Of Saigon Lyrics

(KIM overwhelmed at the prospect of finally being reunited with CHRIS,
recalls the horrifying moments when they were seperated 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

[CHRIS]
I have to get my girl!

[ANOTHER OFFICER]
Sorry, Sergent, it's sraight from
Washington
No one leaves the grounds now, not
Anyone
A fast as we load the planes
We're gone

[CHRIS]
(But my girl is in there!)

(A huge CROWD OF VIETNAMESE is pushing at the Emba*sy gates.)

[A MARINE CAPTAIN]
(to the crowd)

Okay! Keep quiet! Don't shout!
The Amba*sador won't leave till
Everyone's out
The choppers're on there way there's
Room for you all

[ANOTHER MARINE]
They're climbing over the wall!
(GET BACK!)

[MORE MARINES]
Get Back! Tell you, don't shout!
The Amba*sador won't leave till
Everyone's out

[A MARINE]
(entering)

Th' Amba*sador just sent an order to
Freeze

[THE MARINE CAPTAIN]
That's it! No more Vietnamese!
Get in!

[CHRIS]
But my girl's out there!

(In the street outside the Emba*st, KIM can't get through the grounds)

[KIM]
I'm the wife of a soldier
Oh 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 Emba*sy 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] [CHRIS]
Still I'm with you I am with you
Wait for Wait for me

[THE MARINE CAPTAIN]
(to CHRIS)

Sorry Sergent, inside the Emba*sy!
We are pulling out now and there will
Be
No more reprives

[CHRIS]
I got till the old man leaves

(CHRIS is forced inside the Eba*sy, whose doors are then barricaded
The VIETNAMESE are now yelling through the Eba*sy 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've 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 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 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 els we are betrayed!

(The CROWD tries to vatter 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 Emba*sy 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 pa*ses - KIM is in her little room with TAM)