Testi Soundtracks :: M

(The ENGINEER, in a peasant clothes,

is brought back to the city from a re-education camp by THUY's soldiers.

THUY instructs him to find KIM in exchange for his freedom)



(The ENGINEER tracks down KIM and leads THUY to her.

Once more, she rejects his love declaring that she's sworn herself

to CHRIS; the enraged THUY, now the people's commissar,

orders his soldiers to attack.

They wreck the room and beat up the ENGINEER)



[ENGINEER]

Are you waiting for them to kill me?

Did you not get what he said?

There's a big screw loose inside you

I will rip it out of your head

That's a mad dog on the rampage

If you think he'll change - save your

Breath

Just say "Yes" - I don't care if you love Him

Princess, life has it all over death!



[KIM]

I have a husband

Real as the sun in the sky

I cannot live with a lie



[THUY]

Do you see now who has power

Do you still think crazy things?



[KIM]

Chris will come to me like the phoenix

and he'll take me off on his wings



[THUY]

You're a traitor to your country



[KIM]

If I am, then let it be



[KIM], [THUY] AND THE [ENGINEER]

I am talking of life or death now

I am talking of staying free



[ENGINEER]

So there it is now - it's time to move on

If you don't need me, I'd rather be gone

Two kids in love don't need strangers around



[THUY]

Just get out



[ENGINEER]

Right! I won't make a sound



(grabs his sack and leaves)



[THUY]

And as for you

Come with me



[KIM]

NO



There is a secret

That you don't know

There is a force here

I never show

You say it's treason

To keep my vow

Season after season

I survived somehow

If you want a reason

I will show you now



(KIM pulls back the curtain and out runs a scared two year old boy.

KIM hugs him.)



Look, Thuy, this is my son

He has kept me alive

Now you see why

I must tell you "No"



[THUY]

No one must ever see

This thing you're showing me

Your bastard fouls our name



[KIM]

My baby's not to blame

For what I've done



[THUY]

You must decide upon

Which side you're really on

You whored to make this kid



[KIM]

That isn't what I did

Don't touch my son



[THUY]

You must see how it is

When you're my wife

Having that child of his

Brands us for life

No alternative!

The child cannot live



(THUY pulls a knife, threatening the boy)



[KIM]

No

You will not touch him

Don't touch my boy

He's what I live for

He's my only joy



[KIM]

You will not touch

him



[THUY]

He is my enemy

It's he turns you from me



[KIM]

Don't touch my boy



[THUY]

Erase him from your life

Even your memory



[KIM]

He's what I live for



[THUY]

He's one drop in a flood

Left here to taint our blood



[KIM]

He's my only joy



[THUY]

Our marriage bond was sworn

Forget that he was born



(KIM pulls out a gun)



[THUY]

Of course you have a gun

And now you'll shoot your cousin'

And it's a U.S. gun



[KIM]

Don't touch my

little boy



And do not test



A gun that lost the war

my will



[THUY]

You're the corrupted one Go on and shoot - don't wait

To save your bastard son You must not hesitate



[KIM]

Im warning you,

for him

I'll kill





[KIM]

The earth moves where I stand

I feel the turning of a wheel

I feel nothing in my hand

Not even the feel of steel

You will not take my child...



[THUY]

You don't know how to kill



[KIM]

I have no other choice

What I must do I will



(She shoots THUY - and at the same moment,

the street pageant continues in the street outside)



[CROWD]

This is the hour

This is our land

We found the power

In our brother's hand

And from a storm

Pierced with light

Fierce and white

The lightning came

A bright'ning flame

To end the night



(A gigantic statue of Ho Chin Mihn is raised in the square outside)



One man to heed us -

Each girl, each boy

One voice to lead us

In a song of joy



This is the hour

This is our land



(In the room, KIM stares and THUY's body)



(KIM puts the gun, her family shrine and a few valuables in a sack,

and taking TAM by the hand, escapes)