Effie, Curtis was supposed to..
[Effie:]
LOVE ME.
Curtis was SUPPOSED to love me.
[Clarence:]
There you are, Effie, I've been lookin' 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.
[Clarence:]
I've been warning you for MONTHS to clean up your act,
you've been late, you've been mean, you've been all kind of bullshit flack.
[Effie:]
That's a lie, that's a LIE. It's just I haven't been feeling that well.
[Clarence:]
Effie, please, stop excusing yourself. You've been late,
You've been mean, and getting fatter all the time.
[Effie:]
Now you're lyin', you're lyin'.
I've never been so thin, you're lyin', you're lyin'
cause you're knockin' off that piece of thinks-shes-better-than-everybody,
she ain't better than anybody. She ain't nothin' but COMMON.
[Deena:]
Now who you think you're calling common, you're self indulgent, self-absorbed and unprofessional.
[Effie:]
YOU! I'm calling you, I'm calling you a common piece of --.
[Deena:]
Now you listen to me Ms. Blame-it-on-the-world, see I put up with you for much too long.
I have put up with your bitchin', I put up with your naggin', and ALL your screamin' too!
[Lorrell:]
OOOH, when are you two going to stop all this fighting!?
[Effie:]
Stay out of this Lorrell, this is between Deena & me.
[Lorrell:]
NAH! 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're makin' us.
[Effie:]
I ALWAYS knew you two worked together!
[Lorrell:]
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:]
You were a trouble from the start?
[Effie:]
TROUBLE?!
[Curtis:]
You were a real bad trouble from the start
[Effie:]
CURTIS, I'm your woman!
[Curtis:]
Now, Now, I'm not building this group to have to tear it apart, go ahead & cry, 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.
[Clarence:]
Lay off, Effie, just take the money & run.
[Effie:]
You in this CC ?!
[Clarence:]
Cool it, Effie, this time you know what you done.
[Effie:]
So they got your black ass too, huh?
[Clarence:]
I said, cool it, Effie. This time you've gone too far.
[Effie:]
Boy, I can go further. I can GO further!
[Clarence:]
I don't wanna stay around this, I'm just breakin' in to this buisness.
This is between all of you. This is none of my affair.
[Effie:]
Yeah, well it's between you too now lil' sista. This new job is as much your sin.
Look at me, look at me. How much did YOU put out to get in?
[Clarence:]
Now, you watch your mouth, watch your mouth Ms.
Effie White cause I don't take that tone from no second-rate diva, who can't sustaine.
[Effie:]
I'm not feelin' well, I got pain.
[ALL:]
Hunnie, we all got pain.
[Effie:]
All those years I was with you, I was a sister.
[ALL:]
You were a trouble.
[Effie:]
And now you're telling me, it's all over.
[ALL:]
And now we're telling you, it's all OVER.
[Effie:]
And now, I'm telling you, I'm not goin'.
[ALL:]
It's all over.
[Effie:]
I ain't goin'.
[ALL:]
It's all over