This Is The Hour Lyrics - Miss Saigon

(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)