It’s All Over

[C.C., spoken]

Effie? Curtis was supposed to--

[EFFIE, spoken]

Love me! Curtis was supposed to love me!

[CURTIS, spoken]

There you are, Effie. I've been looking all over

[EFFIE]

I turn my back and find myself out on the line

You could've warned me but that would've been too kind

[CURTIS]

I've been warning you for months to clean up your act

You've been late, you've been mean

Giving all kinds of bullshit flack

[EFFIE]

That's a lie! That's a lie!

It's just I haven't been feeling that well

[CURTIS]

Effie, please, stop excusing yourself

You've been late, you've been mean

And getting fatter all the time

[EFFIE]

Now you lying, you lying

I've never been so thin

You lying, you lying

'Cause you knocking off that piece who thinks she's better than everybody

She ain't better than anybody

She ain't nothing but common

[DEENA]

Now who you calling common, you self-indulgent

Self-absorbed non-professional?

[EFFIE]

You! I'm calling you!

I'm calling you the common piece he's knocking off

[DEENA]

Now you listen to me, Miss Blame-It-on-the-World

See, I've put up with you for much too long

I have put up with your bitching

I've put up with your nagging

And all your screaming too!

[LORELL]

Oh, now, when are you two gonna stop all this fighting?

[EFFIE, spoken]

Stay out of this, Lorell, this is between Deena and me!

[LORELL]

Yeah, well, it's between me too

I'm as much a part of this group as anybody else

And I'm tired

Effie, I'm tired!

Of all the problems you're making us

[EFFIE]

I always knew you two were together

[LORELL, spoken]

What?!

[EFFIE]

I always knew you two were ganging up on me!

[DEENA]

She had nothing to do with this change

It was you! It was you always thinking of you

Always thinking of you!

[CURTIS]

I knew you were trouble from the start

[EFFIE, spoken]

Trouble?

[CURTIS]

You were real bad trouble from the start

[EFFIE, spoken]

Curtis, I'm your woman

[CURTIS]

But you're getting out now

I'm not building this group to have you tear it apart

Go 'head and rant and scream and shout!

Don't worry, baby, I'll buy you out

[EFFIE, spoken]

There's no money dirty enough to buy me out! You remember that, Curtis!

[C.C.]

Lay off, Effie!

Just take the money and run

[EFFIE, spoken]

You in this with them, C.C.?

[C.C.]

Cool it, Effie

This time you know what you've done

[EFFIE, spoken]

So they bought your black ass too, huh?

[C.C.]

I said cool it, Effie!

This time you've gone too far!

[EFFIE, spoken]

Oh, I can go further, I can go further

[MICHELLE]

I don't wanna stay around this

I'm just breaking into this business

This is between all of you

This is none of my affair

[EFFIE]

Yeah, well, it's between you too now, li'l sister

This snow job is as much your sin

Look at me! Look at me!

How much did you put out to get in?

[MICHELLE]

Now you watch your mouth

Watch your mouth, Ms. Effie White!

'Cause I don't take that talk from no second-rate diva

Who can't sustain!

[EFFIE]

I'm not feeling well

I got pain

[ALL except EFFIE]

Effie, we all got pain

[EFFIE]

Oh, for seven years, I sung with you

I was your sister

[ALL except EFFIE]

You were our trouble

[EFFIE]

And now you're telling me it's all over?

[ALL except EFFIE]

And now we're telling you it's all over

[EFFIE]

And now I'm telling you I ain't going

[ALL except EFFIE]

It's all over

[EFFIE]

I ain't going

[ALL except EFFIE]

It's all over