"Suffer With Me"
DIEGO: LOOK AT YOU
AND SANTIAGO:
YOU WORK TOGETHER,
HAND IN HAND.
LOOK AT MY MEN
AND SANTIAGO'S:
THEY ARE BROTHERS,
SOMETHING OF THIS REVOLUTION
WILL NOT BE LOST.
PEOPLE WORK TOGETHER HERE.
CAMPESINOS: ALL OF THIS
AND YET WE HAVE NOTHING.
ALL OF THIS
AND WHERE ARE WE NOW?
ALL THESE YEARS
WE HELD UP OUR WEAPONS
YET STILL WE ARE STARVING,
SLAVES TO THE PLOW.
DIEGO: IF I COULD
I'D FEED A NATION.
A SOLE PROVIDER
TO YOUR NEEDS
BUT LOOK AT ME,
YOUR OWN CREATION:
I CAN WIN YOUR WARS
BUT NOT YOUR DREAMS.
SUFFER WITH ME.
SUFFER AND SEE
THE HARD AND DESOLATE BEACH
LEFT BEHIND BY THE TURN OF THE TIDE.
CHEPE: We suffer with you or without!
SANTIAGO: Watch your words, Chepe...
JORGE'S RIGHT, THOUGH, DIEGO.
WE NEED HOUSES AND FOOD
AND GOOD WATER TO DRINK.
LIFE NEEDS TO LIVE UP
TO THE PEACE TREATY'S INK.
JORGE: // SANTIAGO: /// DIEGO & CAMPESINOS:
IF WE COULD, // IF YOU COULD, /// SUFFER WITH ME...
WE'D FEED A NATION. // YOU'D FEED A NATION. /// ...
THE SOLE PROVIDERS // YOU WOULD PROVIDE ALL /// SUFFER AND SEE...
TO OUR NEEDS. // THAT WE NEED. /// ...
BUT CAN'T YOU SEE? // I THINK I SEE /// THE HARD AND
YOU'RE OUR CREATION: // THAT WE'RE ALL HUMAN: /// DESOLATE BEACH
MADE IN OUR IMAGE, // IN MANÁ'S IMAGE /// LEFT BEHIND BY THE TURN
SOWN FROM OUR SEED. // YET NOT AS FREE. /// OF THE TIDE.
CHEPE: So... is that your campaign speech, Diego?
DIEGO: Yeah. Yeah it is.
(Four POLITICIANS enter and clamour up onto the podium on three-foot stilts. The CAMPESINOS continue with their work, uninterested in what the POLITICIANS have to say.)
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montepío - the musical
General FictionThe libretto for a 2-act Broadway-style musical about a revolution that plays out on a fictional Latin American coffee plantation. And Diego, the revolutionary leader, is in love with the Dictator's daughter... Love, politics, violence, and conseque...
