Freddie: I'd have thought you'd support Chorus: 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 30 years on, They're the same.
Chorus: 1956 - Budapest is fighting. 1956 - Budapest is falling.
Freddie: They see chess as a war Chorus: Playing with pawns just like Poland. 1956 - Budapest is dying. If you walk out on me You're really betraying you father. Were he alive now he'd surely Be dying of shame.
Florence: You know that there's nothing I've done That he'd be ashamed of In my whole life! Why'd you have to do this to me?