(C.C)

Effie, Curtis was supposed to 



(Effie)

Love me. Cutis was supposed to love me



(Curtis)

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



(Effie)

I've turned my back and found myself flat 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, givin' all kinds a bullshit flapp.



(Effie)

That's a lie, that's a lie. 

It's just that 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're lying, you're lying

I've never been so thin

You're lying, you're lying

Cause you're knocking off that piece

that thinks she's better than everybody

She ain't better than anybody

She ain't nothin' but comin



(Deena)

Now who you callin' comin'

Yourself, bein' self absorbed and unprofessional



(Effie)

You! - i'm calling you

I'm calling you

Comin' - with lead, but not for long



(Deena)

Now you listen to me

Miss Blame it on the World

I put up with you for much to long

I have put up with your bitchin'

I put with your naggin'

and all your screamin' too



(Lorrel)

Now when are you two gonna stop

All this fighting?



(Effie)

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



(Lorrel)

Well, this is 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 making us



(Effie)

I always knew you were together



(Lorrel)

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)

Trouble?!



(Curtis)

You were real bad trouble from the start



(Effie)

Curtis! I'm your woman!



(Curtis)

To getting it down. I'm not building this group to have it tearing apart. Go head' and rant and scream and shout! Don't worry baby, I'll buy you out.



(Effie)

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



(C.C)

Lay off Effie, just take the money and go



(Effie)

You in this with them, C.C?



(C.C)

Cool it,Effie, this time you knew what you done!



(Effie)

So they bought your black ass too, huh?



(C.C)

I said cool it Effie, this time you've gone too far!



(Effie)

I can go further, I can go further!



(Michelle)

I don't want to stay around this. 

I'm just breaking in to this business. 

This is between all of you. 

This is none of my affair.



(Effie)

Yeah? Well it's between you know little sister. 

This job is as much a 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, Miss Effie White. 

Cause I don't take that tone from no second rate diva,

 who can't sustain



(Effie)

I'm not feeling well

I've got pain



(Everyone)

Effie, we've all got pain!



(Effie)

For seven years I've sung with you

I was your sister



(Everyone)

You were trouble



(Effie)

And now you're telling me

It's all over



(Everyone)

And now we're telling you

It's all over!



(Effie)

And now I'm telling you 

I'm not going



(Everyone)

It's all over



(Effie)

I ain't going



(Everyone)

It's all over