Betrayed

Music by Mel Brooks
Lyrics by Mel Brooks
Performed by Nathan Lane

 
Max
Just like Cain and Abel
You pulled a sneak attack
I thought that we were brothers
Then you stabbed me in the back!
Betrayed!
Oh, boy, I'm so betrayed!
Like Samson and Delilah
Your love began to fade
I'm crying in the hoosegow
You're in Rio getting laid
Betrayed!
Let's face it, I'm betrayed!

Boy, have I been taken
Oy, I'm so forsaken!
I should have seen what came to pass
I should have known to watch my ass!
I feel like Othello
Ev'rything is lost
Leo is Iago
Max is double-crossed!
I'm so dismayed
Did I mention I'm betrayed?!

Now I'm about to go to jail
There's no one who will pay my bail
I have no one who I can cry to
No one I can say goodbye to

I'm drowning. I'm drowning. I'm drowning here!
I'm going down for the last time!
I... I... I see my whole life flashing before my eyes!
I see a weathered old farmhouse with a white picket fence
I'm running through fields of alfalfa with my collie, Rex.
No, Rex, not on the alfalfa.
And I see my mother. I see Mama standing on the back porch in a worn but clean gingham gown.
And I hear my mama calling out to me.
"Alvin, don't forget your chores! The wood needs a-cordin' and the cows need a-milkin'! Alviiiiin! Aaaaalviiiiiiiiiiiin!"
Wait a minute. My name's not Alvin. That's not my life.
Somebody else's life is flashing before my eyes.
I'm not a hillbilly, I grew up in the Bronx.
Leo's taken everything... Even my past!

My past's a dying ember
But wait... now I remember

How did it begin?
He walked into my office with his cockamamie scheme.
You can make more money with a flop than with a hit.
"We can do it, we can do it!"
"I can't do it!"
"We can do it!"
"I can't do it." Goodbye, Max!
Lord, I want that money!
I'm back, Max!
"Come on, Leo, we can do it!"
Step one, find the play!
See it, smell it, touch it, kiss it. Hello, Mr. Liebkind.
"Guten tag hop hop, guten tag clop clop!"
Adolf Elizabeth Hitler?
"Guten tag hop hop, guten tag clop clop!"
Step two, hire the director.
"Keep it gay, keep it gay, keep it..."
Two-three, kick, turn, turn, turn, kick, turn.
Ulla!
Ooo wah-wee-wah-wow wow wowee!
Step three, raise the money.
"Along came Bialy!"
Step four, hire all the actors.
A wandering minstrel I, a thing of shreds and... Next!
The little wooden boy. Next!
That's our Hitler!
Opening night, good luck, good luck, good luck!
Break a leg! I broke my leg!
"Springtime for Hitler and Germany!" A surprise smash!
"Springtime for Hitler and Germany!" It'll run for years!
"Where did we go right, where did we go right?"
Gimme those books! Fat, fat, fatty!
Gimme those books! Fat, fat, fatty!
Books, fat, books, fat, books, fat, books, fat!
Lousy fruit! Kill the actors!
You ever eat with one?!

Then you ran to Rio
And you're safely out of reach
I'm behind these bars
You're banging Ulla on the beach

Just like Julius Caesar was betrayed by Brutus
Who'd think an accountant would turn out to be my Judas!
I'm so dismayed
Is this how I'm repaid
To be betrayed
Betrayed!!