[C.C.:] Effie, Curtis was supposed to...

[Effie:] Love me. Curtis was supposed to love me.

[Curtis:] There you are Effie. I´ve been looking all over.

[Effie:] I turn my back and find myself out on the line. You could have warned me, but that would have been too kind!

[Curtis:] I´ve been warning you for months to clean up your act. You´ve been late; you´ve been mean; given 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 never been so thin. You lying, you lying, ´cause your knocking up 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 callin´ common you self-indulgent, self-absorbed and unprofessional...

[Effie:] You! I´m calling you, I´m calling you, the common piece is knocking off!

[Deena:] Now you listen to me, Miss Blame-It-On-The-World. See I 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!

[Lorelle:] Oh now when are you two gonna stop all this fighting?

[Effie:] Stay outta this Lorelle, this is between Deena and me!

[Lorelle:] Yeah, well it´s between me too! I am 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 up!

[Effie:] I always knew you two were together!

[Lorelle:] What!

[Effie:] 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:] You´re getting out now... I´m not building this group to have you tear it apart. Go ahead 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 run.

[Effie:] You in this with them, C.C.?

[C.C.:] Cool it Effie, this time you know what you´ve done!

[Effie:] So they´ve got your black ass too, huh?

[C.C.:] I said cool it Effie, this time you´ve gone too far.

[Effie:] 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, little sister. This small job is just 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´ve got pains.

[Everyone:] Effie, we all got pains!

[Effie:] Oh! For seven years I sung with you, I was your sister!

[Everyone:] You were a trouble.

[Effie:] 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 ain´t going!

[Everyone:] It´s all over.

[Effie:] I ain´t going!

[Everyone:] It´s all over