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[FLORENCE]
This is the one situation I wanted most to avoid
Nothing I say will convince him this isn't a trick.

[THE RUSSIAN]
A drink on a clear moonlit night -- I relax, she smiles
There's something peculiar going on.

[FLORENCE]
So with immaculate timing, I'm left to carry the can
Embarrassed, outnumbered, marooned --

[THE RUSSIAN]
Now she can't be working for them -- I mean us --
She seems so very straightforward -- but where is he?

[FLORENCE]
He has to come back -- he wanted this meeting, well didn't he?

[THE RUSSIAN]
Maybe he's scared -- just as scared as he was in the game.

[FLORENCE]
Oh, I just couldn't care less
He can go right ahead, go and wreck his career, I know I've done
my best

[THE RUSSIAN]
Well at least she's a good-looking spy.

[FLORENCE]
What if my Russian friend thinks that my plans
Are more of an intimate kind?
If I don't say something else soon
He'll go -- Nobody's on nobody's side!

[THE RUSSIAN]
Listen, I hate to break up the mood
Get to the point, begin the beguine
Haven't you noticed we're a protagonist short
In this idyllic, well-produced scene?

[FLORENCE]
All I can say is moments ago
He was right here ready and waiting

[THE RUSSIA]
Never mind him -- I haven't missed him so far.

[BOTH]
Maybe it won't do any harm
To struggle on without his charm
Funny how all at once I feel that he can go jump off the mountain
I won't care

[FLORENCE]
This is the one situation I wanted most to avoid

[THE RUSSIAN]
My dear opponent -- I really can't imagine why

[FLORENCE]
So I am not dangerous then? -- what a shame!

[THE RUSSIAN]
Oh, you're not dangerous -- who could think that of you?

[BOTH]
You -- you are so strange -- why can't you be what you ought to
be?
You should be scheming, intriguing, too clever by half --

[THE RUSSIAN]
I have to had it to you
For you've managed to make me forget why I ever agreed to this
farce.

[BOTH]
I don't know why I can't think of anything
I would rather do
Than be wasting my time
On mountains with you.
Last Update: June, 10th 2013

Chess Lyrics

  1. Act 1
  2. Merano
  3. The Russian And Molokov Where I Want To Be
  4. Opening Ceremony
  5. Quartet
  6. The American And Florence Nobodys Side
  7. Chess
  8. Mountain Duet
  9. Florence Quits
  10. Embassy Lament Anthem
  11. Anthem
  12. Act 2
  13. One Night In Bankok
  14. Heaven Help My Heart
  15. Argument
  16. I Know Him So Well
  17. The Deal (No Deal)
  18. Pity The Child
  19. Endgame
  20. Epilogue: You And I The Story (Reprise)

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