This Is The Hour

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!

I have a husband

Real as the sun in the sky

I cannot live with a lie

Do you see now who has power

Do you still think crazy things?

Chris will come to me like the phoenix

and he'll take me off on his wings

You're a traitor to your country

If I am, then let it be

And I am talking of life or death now

I am talking of staying free

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

Just get out

Right! I won't make a sound

(grabs his sack and leaves)

And as for you

Come with me

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"

No one must ever see

This thing you're showing me

Your bastard fouls our name

My baby's not to blame for what I've done

You must decide upon which side you're really on

You whored to make this kid

That isn't what I did

Don't touch my son

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)

No!

You will not touch him

Don't touch my boy

He's what I live for

He's my only joy

You will not touch him

He is my enemy

It's he turns you from me

Don't touch my boy

Erase him from your life

Even your memory

He's what I live for

He's one drop in a flood

Left here to taint our blood

He's my only joy

Our marriage bond was sworn

Forget that he was born

(KIM pulls out a gun)

Of course you have a gun

And now you'll shoot your cousin

And it's a U.S. gun

Don't touch my little boy

And do not test!

A gun that lost the war

my will

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

To save your bastard son You must not hesitate

Im warning you,

for him I'll kill!

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...

You don't know how to kill

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)

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)