ARTIST: Tim Rice, Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus
TITLE: Nobody's Side
Lyrics and Chords


[Chess]

Florence
You want to lose your only friend
Well, keep it up you're doing fine
Why this humiliation
Why treat me like a fool
I've taken shit for seven years
And I won't take it any more

/ Em - / - - - - / C - - - / Am - - - /
   / Em - / - - - - /

The American
I'm only teasing Soviets
With gentle bonhomie
And you've a better reason to be anti-them than me
Florence
There's a time and there's a place
The American
Is this the girl who always said
She wants to know the truth
Florence
There's a time and there's a place

/ C - - - / Am - - - / Em - - - / DCAm Em9 / - / - - / DCAm Em9 /

     1956, Budapest is rising
     1956, Budapest is rising

/ Em9 - Cmaj7 - / / 

The American
I'd have thought you'd support
Any attack on these people
     1956, Budapest is rising
On the people who ran
Mindlessly over your childhood
Don't let them fool you
For thirty years on they're the same
     1956, Budapest is fighting
     1956, Budapest is falling

/ Em9 - / Cmaj7 - / Em9 - Cmaj7 - / Em9 - C D G / - F / 
   / Am B7 / Em9 - Cmaj7 - / / 

They see chess as a war
Playing with pawns just like Poland
     1956, Budapest is dying
If you walk out on me
They will have won the first battle
Wouldn't your father
Have begged you to stay in the game

... / Am B7 - /

Florence
He would, but he didn't know you
He'd loathe your behavior, and so do I
Why'd you have to do this to me

/ Am - - B7 / C - - D / C - G - D - / 

What's going on around me
Is barely making sense
I need some explanations fast
I see my present partner
In the imperfect tense
And I don't see how we can last
I feel I need a change of cast
Maybe I'm on nobody's side

/ D - / Am - / Em - - / C DC / Am C / Em - - / 
   / Em Bm / C G /

And when he gives me reasons
To justify each move
They're getting harder to believe
I know this can't continue
I've still a lot to prove
There must be more I could achieve
But I don't have the nerve to leave

   Everybody's playing the game
   But nobody's rules are the same
   Nobody's on nobody's side
   Better learn to go it alone
   Recognize you're out on your own
   Nobody's on nobody's side

   / C G / D BmG C / G D / 

The one I should not think of
Keeps rolling through my mind
And I don't want to let that go
No lover's ever faithful
No contract truly signed
There's nothing certain left to know
And how the cracks begin to show

   Never make a promise or plan
   Take a little love where you can
   Nobody's on nobody's side
   Never stay too long in your bed
   Never lose your heart, use your head
   Nobody's on nobody's side

   Never take a stranger's advice
   Never let a friend fool you twice
   Nobody's on nobody's side
   Everybody's playing the game
   But nobody's rules are the same
   Nobody's on nobody's side

   Never leave a moment too soon
   Never waste a hot afternoon
   Nobody's on nobody's side
   Never stay a minute too long
   Don't forget the best will go wrong
   Nobody's on nobody's side

   Never be the first to believe
   Never be the last to deceive
   Nobody's on nobody's side
   Never make a promise or plan
   Take a little love when you can
   Nobody's on nobody's side

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