Lyric Please

JOHN
I m not here as a friend
I have a job to do
it s strange to find my work
should lead me here to you
Chris knows all about you
I have shown him all this
but I think that it s time
you know all about Chris

KIM
please, don t you see that s all I live for?
I have him and nothing more
at night, everything that s not him
disappears behind my door

JOHN
please, he went crazy when he lost you
spoke to no one for a year
then he finally said "I m home now,
my life has to go on here"

please, let me finish talking, please
this was three whole years ago

KIM
yes, yes I know
I know how pain can grow
when the rock you hold onto
is a love miles away, listen:

please, I already know the story
take us to the U.S.A.

JOHN
when we ve finished here, you ll see him
Chris arrived with me today!

KIM
oh Tam! He s here!
he is here, he s so near
we might breathe the same air tonight!
your father s here

KIM JOHN
oh Tam, it s true I can t tell her like this
my dream was right I should not be the one
you ll see him soon! Chris must come see his son

please, they don t say
don t you see we ve been in the files
watched over? there s a woman in love
as we crossed here
the wildest seas? what sustained her for miles
even god wants us together Chris still knows nothing of
can I end this journey, can I end this journey
please? please?

(JOHN, unable to tell KIM the truth, returns to the hotel to inform
CHRIS and ELLEN of the impossible situation. The ENGINEER doesn t
trust any of them, least of all an American GI who has fathered a bui-doi
son, and goes in search of CHRIS S hotel address so that he can send
KIM there directly. )