The Prefab People Page #3

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Fiery red lips when

she Charlestons

My own black baby

On the red day of Whitsun

I prayed and prayed

On the red day of Whitsun

For you to come back

The meadow was full

the wild flowers blooming.

I was waiting for you

Whitsun roses in my hand.

All my wait was in vain

Autumn has arrived

Whitsun roses are long

Faded and gone.

My smiling love

No more I'll call you

in Winter cold and ice

only frost-flowers open.

Hold me gentle, sweetheart

rock me tight...

my crazy heart...

Hold me gentle, sweetheart

rock me tight

I'm with you.

Hold me gentle, sweetheart

rock me tight...

my crazy heart

rock away...

Yellow leaves from the tree

Fall winds carry away.

And every evening I wait

my heart burning for you.

Fall winds carry away

And every evening I wait

my heart burning for you.

There I stood for a while

Wounded, crippled,

Not a word she said

in silence she fled

my heart burning for you.

There's a chance to go and

work abroad for two years.

I'm the one in the control

room they thought of.

It's the same work, they say

just a bit more developed...

...the construction.

In Romania.

I'd get paid here and there

for the two years. In Lei there.

- Why do you get paid twice?

- The law says if you work abroad...

your family gets paid here

so you can get that...

And you go alone?

The way it is...

I go myself,

myself, sure.

It's not like it's ten years,

just two years I'll be there.

It's the same, I get up...

Two years. We're not

together for two years?

I'd come home

on my holidays...

Holidays, two weeks?

No, I think I'd get three

four weeks on this,

I didn't ask, and then

it can be worked out.

I... I don't have to say yes

right away.

I said I had to talk to you.

I think it'd be great.

It looks like, it looks like,

we'd have a car inside a year...

- What's in it for me...

- It's great, we can move.

It's nothing to me

to have a car in a year

or in six years

and be alone for two years.

- I think we have to make a move...

- Don't you like it here?

It'd be good for my career,

because they thought of me,

so, it's something serious.

I mean there's 22 of us

and I'm the one they asked.

- Not to see the kids?

- I'd be home during the...

...only on holidays but what

about when they go to bed,

good night kiss, I don't know,

there's lots in their life...

You can bring the kids over.

Don't you see we'd have

a car inside a year...

So the problem is

we don't have a car?

Then you tell me why can't

I finish what I'm saying?

You've said it all.

There's a car, the second year

might mean enough money

for a house maybe.

Depend's if there's any

reason to build a house.

- If you still have a family.

- Buy it for the kids.

Don't... can't you think for

more than five minutes?

It's not five minutes!

It's a lifetime!

Two years.

What about all those

who are away for years...

They never see their kids,

the kids grow up with no dad.

They grow up and the dad

gets them ready-made.

It's important

how they grow up, important.

Here in this trap with me or

he could even... he could get more...

I thought you'd be pleased.

To be away from you?

No, it's not about that.

Living apart, that's just

the form of being away.

And all my salary

would get paid to you.

That's the only argument you have,

that the money's double,

and if the money's double,

then what'll happen?

It's not true, there's been

far worse situations...

this isn't a lousy situation,

we're just blowing it up.

There's no war, imagine

if there'd be a war,

that's four or five years...

they managed to survive

and bring up children.

So for you it's natural

for me to be happy

to be here alone with

two children and more money.

Do you seriously expect me

to accept that?

Look, you're taking it on

for two years.

And what are you taking on?

- Well, let's say...

- That you'll be fine abroad...

I won't be, no.

What I'm taking on is

two years, when I'm home,

I could help you more,

we would have a solid base...

- We wouldn't be living from

day to day, but... - What base?

You don't see the point?

We wouldn't get rich, could't buy a

palace, but we'd be able to make a move.

So what big difference

does it make?

There's nothing in life so big,

it'll pass in 5 minutes.

I thought

you'd understand.

You thought you could

leave me here with two kids...

You have two kids and then

you don't want to raise them,

just live off somewhere else.

That's the point.

I want more than this

drudgery.

And so I'm here alone

with them.

There's some that go West

for five or six years.

They have wives

who are perhaps happy

that the husband

leaves them alone a bit.

I wasn't saying that...

You think they're the type

that's happy to be alone?

No, they live well, or love

their husband so much, trust him

and think of him a bit,

not just of themselves.

Surely they choose this

for things to be a bit better.

So there's no husband

who loves his wife so much

- to think of her as well?

- That's what I'm thinking of.

Two kids and it's all over!?

The point isn't how soon

we can have a car,

- or how quickly we can pay this

or that bill. - And my career?

Your career? Does it matter where

you push a button here, or there?

- Do you want me to tell you?

- What, the factory?

- So why shouldn't I tell you?

- Don't bother to tell me.

A million times you have to

rush around... wheels and all.

You really think the world turns on

whether you press a button or not?

Yes.

So I go back and say

I talked to my wife

and someone else can go

and everyone laughs at me?

What's so special for someone

not to want to live alone?

Anyone who will laugh

is a fool.

They are fools of the type

who think their whole life

depends

if they can buy this

or buy that.

Look, I don't really see

why you can't see that.

I simply can't imagine why

you can't see that.

Find something else. The two

of us must find something.

- A hold up!?

- What will we do?

We could try a hold-up.

You're thinking again about what to

do for us to have loads of money.

You can't do without it.

Not for beer but for...

You have that, every day

you have your beer money.

Don't you see we can't

make a move?

No car, and you can't go out

on a Saturday,

for two days with a tent,

or whatever, with the kids.

I'll take a bus or walk and

be happy, not living separate...

In a bus with the pack...

Better with the pack

and be together.

Right, I'll say

I won't go.

That's not right either to

make yourself unhappy about it.

Then I'll say nothing.

I'll just play dumb.

Why, why are youbeing

so sarcastic about it all.

Don't you get it?

Don't you see, Robi, that

we have to be together,

together and work it all out.

Freedom's flowers do not

bloom

flowers...

From the spilt blood

of the dead

And the tears of slavery burn

Which the eyes

of orphans shed.

Pity, God, the Magyar, then,

Long by waves of...

- waves... of danger tossed

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