AN: Pretty much the same as the prevoius two. The Last Five Years belongs to Jason Robert Brown.
ANATOLY
There
are people from the Chess Federation
and
there's a party that they are throwing.
And
while you've made it very clear that "we're" not going,
I will
be going,
and
that's done.
But
is it about…is it really about the tabloids, Florence?
Can
we please, for a moment, stop hiding and say what we feel.
Is
it just that you're disappointed to be the obligatory dolly?
Did
you think it would all be much easier than it's turned out to be?
Well
then, talk to me Florence.
Talk
to me.
If
I didn't believe in youwe'd
never have got past the train.
If
I didn't believe in you
and
all of your heart and spirit and brain,
if
didn't think you could do
ev'rything
you've ever wanted to,
if
wasn't certain that you'd break through somehow,
it's
a matter of fact, dear Florence,
I
wouldn't be westernised now.
If
I didn't believe in you
we
wouldn't be having this fight.
If
I didn't believe in you
I
would have just held you on that perfect spring night,
but
I never can let you go
with
so much about you I know.
Love
that I'm feeling I knew
would
never need much coercing to be felt by you.
Why
must we all hide away, Florence?
At some stop down the line don't
we get to be free
without
some great scandal to push me away from you?
If
I'm sharing in your dreams, Florence, why can't you glorify mine?
Why
do I have to feel that I'm some criminal
for
doing what I've always known I must do?
I
don't want you to fail.
I
don't want you to sink.
But
do you what I think?
I know that you'll win.
Persevere
and you'll see,
but
the game's what I do,
it's
not about you.
Will
you listen to me?
No
one can make me falter.
There
is no battle within.
I
will not fail because it's aids others, Florence.
I
will not lose. I'll always win.
If
I didn't believe in you
then
here's where the facts are all swirled.
If
I didn't believe in you
I
couldn't have stood before all of the world and said,
"You
are the life I choose. You are the love I can't bear to lose.
Trounce
us or trap us but we refuse to fall."
That's
what I thought that you thought, Florence?
If
I cannot believe in you
then
how can I love you at all?
No
why don't you put your dress on and we'll go?
Okay?
Can we
just do that Florence…please?
PLEASE?