Chess by Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus and Tim Rice - Dialogue and Script

PROLOGUE - THE STORY OF CHESS Budapest, Hungary, 1956. A small crowded room; people huddle under blankets while, in one corner, a father teaches his daughter an ancient game. GREGOR Florence, please concentrate. Each game of chess means there's one less Variation left to be played Each day got through means one or two Less mistakes remain to be made Not much is known Of early days of chess beyond a fairly vague report That fifteen hundred years ago two princes fought Though brothers, for a Hindu throne Their mother cried For no-one really likes their offspring fighting to the death She begged them stop the slaughter with her every breath But sure enough one brother died Sad beyond belief She told her winning son You have caused such grief I can't forgive this evil thing you've done He tried to explain  How things had really been But he tried in vain  No words of his could mollify the queen And so he asked the wisest men he knew The way to lessen her distress They told him he'd be pretty certain to impress By using model soldiers on A chequered board to show it was his brother's fault They thus invented chess Each game of chess means there's one less Variation left to be played Each day got through means one or two Less mistakes.... (He is interrupted by gunfire, then evacuation. Gregor hands Florence to the first group to leave.) PRESS CONFERENCE FREDDIE What a scene! What a joy! What a lovely sight When my game is the big sensation Has the mob's sporting taste Altered overnight? Have they found new sophistication? Not yet! They just want to see If the nice guy beats the bum If it's East-West And the money's sky-high You all come You all come You can raise all you want If you raise the roof Scream and shout and the gate increases Break the rules -- break the bank I'm the living proof They don't care how I move my pieces I know I'm the best there is But all they want is a show Well that's all right I'll be glad to oblige S.R.O. S.R.O. FIRST REPORTER Well, what did I say? He's out of his tree SECOND REPORTER He's finally flipped And between you and me Though he swears the American dream Is clearly the best He's no advertisement for Life and time in the West FLORENCE Smile, you got your first exclusive story Now you can bask in his reflected glory 'Naked, unprovoked, Yankee aggression' Oh what a credit to your great profession! REPORTERS How sad that the best his country's produced Is crumbling in front of our eyes and reduced To a mindless abuse When he should be grateful instead Remember we made him famous Without us he's dead Tell all this to the United Nations Is he an asset to East-West relations? WHERE I WANT TO BE ANATOLY Who needs a dream? Who needs ambition? Who'd be the fool In my position? Once I had dreams Now they're obsessions Hopes become needs Lovers possessions Then they move in Oh so discreetly Slowly at first Smiling too sweetly I opened doors They walked right through them Called me their friend I hardly knew them Now I'm where I want to be and who I want to be and doing what I always said I would and yet I feel I haven't won at all Running for my life and never looking back in case there's someone right behind to shoot me down and say he always knew I'd fall When the crazy wheel slows down Where will I be? Back where I started Don't get me wrong I'm not complaining Times have been good Fast, entertaining But what's the point? If I'm concealing  Not only love  All common feeling  Now I'm where I want to be and who I want to be and doing what I always said I would and yet I feel I haven't won at all Running for my life and never looking back in case there's someone right behind to shoot me down and say he always knew I'd fall When the crazy wheel slows down Where will I be? Back where I started. HOW MANY WOMEN FLORENCE How many women would drive themselves crazy By arguing over a game of chess? Not very many--the way things are going There'll soon be one less! FREDDIE Don't believe you, sweetie pie-- FLORENCE Listen--I had ambitions How did I get waylaid? How can such a flower, A sensitive soul, a delicate child Wind up as a nursemaid Respectably set for the glittering prizes Instead of which I landed you-- FREDDIE You'll get your prizes! I'm ninety percent of the way to the top of the heap. FLORENCE Thanks--ten percent--you got me cheap FREDDIE No, no Florence--I meant we are ninety percent of the way-- FLORENCE How many women--articulate women, with Something to shout about--spend their time Playing a game in which silence is golden And speaking a crime? FREDDIE Maybe if he moved his king.... FLORENCE All of my struggles for qualification--my Nights with Goethe and Proust Recklessly abandoned For you who thinks Checkov is king to G3 And Joyce my college roommate? But then when I show you a move you can't fathom I have to admit it feels great-- FREDDIE Great news for chess fans! Yeah--that's how he did it--yes, that's how the communist plays! FLORENCE Maybe I deserve a raise. MERCHANDISERS SONG WALTER Whether you are pro or anti Or could not care less We are here to tell you We are here to sell you chess Not a chance of you escaping from our wiles We've locked the doors, we've blocked the aisles We've a franchise worth exploiting And I will - MERCHANDISERS Yes we will! WALTER When it comes to merchandising I could kill! FIRST MERCHANDISER We've done all our market research And our findings show That this game of chess could be around A month or so SECOND MERCHANDISER Maybe it's a bit confusing For a game But Rubik's Cubes were much the same THIRD MERCHANDISER In the end the whole world bought one--we were right! We can do the same with Bishop, Rook and Knight WALTER & MERCHANDISERS Don't you find it rather touching to behold The game that came in from the cold Seen for what it is--religion, plus finesse Countries, classes, creeds as one in love of chess MERCHANDISERS When you get up in the morning Till you crash at night You will find yourself surrounded By our copyright MERCHANDISERS & CHORUS Brush your teeth with checkered toothpaste Wear our vests Our kings and queens on bouncing *** WALTER You could even buy a set and learn to play MERCHANDISER & CHORUS We don't mind--we'll sell you something anyway U.S. VS. U.S.S.R. MOLOKOV No one can deny these are encouraging times ALL No one can deny these are encouraging times MOLOKOV It's the US vs. USSR Yet we more or less are-- ALL No one can deny these are encouraging times MOLOKOV --To our credit putting all that aside We have swallowed our pride ALL These are optimistic and encouraging times 2ND AMERICAN It really doesn't matter Who comes out on top Who gets the chop MOLOKOV No-one's way of life is threatened by flop AMERICANS What a load of whining peasants! Thinking they can win--they can't What an exhibition of self-delusion This one's a foregone conclusion MOLOKOV/RUSSIANS We don't want the whole world saying They can't even win a game We have never reckoned On coming second There's no use in losing MOLOKOV How good to feel that as this great event begins It underpins Our quest for peace, the bonds of common interest Of East and West AMERICANS As long as our man wins RUSSIANS As long as our man ALL --Wins! CHESS HYMN ARBITER + ALL Don't you find it rather touching to behold The game that came in from the cold Seen for what it is - religion plus finesse Countries, classes, creeds as one, in Love of chess QUARTET MOLOKOV We wish, no must, make our disgust For this abuse perfectly clear We're here for chess - Are the US? If so why foul the atmosphere! FLORENCE I must protest - our delegation  Has a host of valid points to raise  ARBITER It's not just black and white If I may coin a phrase As any neutral would attest. FLORENCE Though we concede The fact his masters bend the rules is maybe not your fault If they withdraw their psychological assault Then under protest will proceed MOLOKOV If your man's so sweet Then why his fighting talk? If he says we cheat Then why on earth did he go take a walk? FLORENCE I am not surprised He wanted fresher air Once he realized There was no hope Of your guys playing fair FLORENCE & ANATOLY MOLOKOV & ARBITER How sad It's very sad to see to see The ancient and distinguished game that used to be ALL A model of decorum and tranquility Become like any other sport A battleground for rival ideologies To slug it out with glee ANATOLY I would say with regard to Him it is hard to Rebut Ever-growing suspicions My oposition's A nut FLORENCE I would have said You'd understand the strain and pressure getting where he's got Or that you'd simply call him highly-strung and not Imply that he was off his head ANATOLY But how on earth can someone even Half as civilized as nice as you Be part of such a self destructive Point of view? I hope he pays you What you're worth ARBITER I call this tune No one's immune to my power Once in this hall MOLOKOV In that case I must ask you Why you now Preside over a brawl FLORENCE I'm not getting rich My only interest Is in something which Gives me the chance Of working with the best ANATOLY I can only say I hope your dream comes true Till that far-off day I hope you cope With helping number two FLORENCE & ANATOLY MOLOKOV & ARBITER How sad It's very sad to see to see The ancient and distinguished game that used to be ALL A model of decorum and tranquility Become like any other sport A battleground for rival ideologies To slug it out with glee YOU WANNA LOSE YOUR ONLY FRIEND? FLORENCE You wanna lose your only friend? Well, keep it up you're doing fine Why this humiliation? Why treat me like a fool? I've taken *** for seven years And I won't take it any more FREDDIE I'm only teasing Soviets With gentle bonhomie And you've a better reason to be anti-them Than me FLORENCE There's a time and there's a place FREDDIE Well how about here and now? Are you for me or for them? FLORENCE There's a time and there's a place FREDDIE 1956--Budapest is rising 1956--Budapest is fighting 1956--Budapest is falling I'd have thought you'd support Any attack on these people On the people who ran Mindlessly over your childhood Don't let them fool you for Thirty years on they're the same FLORENCE 1956--Budapest is fighting 1956--Budapest is dying FREDDIE They see chess as a war Playing with pawns just like Poland If you walk out on me You're really betraying your father Were he alive now He'd surely be dying of shame FLORENCE You know that there's nothing I've done That he'd be ashamed of in my whole life! Why'd you have to do this to me? SOMEONE ELSE'S STORY FLORENCE Long ago In someone else's lifetime Someone with my name Who looked a lot like me Came to know A man and made a promise He only had to say And that's where she would be Lately Although her feelings run just as deep The promise she made has grown impossible to keep And yet I wish it wasn't so Will he miss me if I go? In a way It's someone else's story I don't see myself As taking part at all Yesterday A girl that I was fond of Finally could see The writing on the wall Sadly She realized she'd left him behind And sadder than that she knew he wouldn't even mind And though there's nothing left to day Would he listen if I stay? It's all very well to say you fool it's now or never I could be choosing No choices whatsoever I could be In someone else's story In someone else's life And he could be in mine I don't see A reason to be lonely I should take my chances Further down the line And if That girl I knew should ask my advice Oh I wouldn't hesitate she needn't ask me twice Go now! I'd tell her that for free Trouble is, the girl is me The story is, the girl is me ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK CHORUS One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free You'll find a god in every golden cloister And if you're lucky then the god's a she I can feel an angel sliding up to me FREDDIE Bangkok, Oriental setting And the city don't know what the city is getting The creme de la creme of chess world in a Show with everything but Yul Brynner Bangkok, just another stop On the chess world circus - Masters drop in, Play, checkmate, check out and then you Move on to another venue Like Iceland - or the Philippines - or Hastings - or - or this place! CHORUS One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free You'll find a god in every golden cloister And if you're lucky then the god's a she I can feel an angel sliding up to me FREDDIE One town's very like another When your head's down over your pieces, brother CHORUS It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pity To be looking at the board, not looking at the city FREDDIE Whaddya mean? You've seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town, you've seen - CHORUS Tea, girls, warm, sweet Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham Suite FREDDIE Get Thai'd! You're taking to a tourist Whose every move's among the purest I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine CHORUS One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble Not much between despair and ecstasy One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble Can't be too careful with your company I can feel the devil walking next to me FREDDIE Siam's gonna be the witness To the ultimate test in cerebral fitness This grips me more than would a Muddy old river or reclining Buddha I don't see you guys rating The kind of mate I'm contemplating I'd let you watch, I would invite you But the queens we use would not excite you So you'd better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage parlors CHORUS One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free You'll find a god in every golden cloister A little flesh, a little history I can feel an angel sliding up to me One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble Not much between despair and ecstasy One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble Can't be too careful with your company I can feel the devil walking next to me TERRACE DUET FLORENCE This is the one situation I wanted most to avoid Nothing I say will convince him this isn't a trick  ANATOLY A drink on a clear moonlit night - I relax, she smiles There's something peculiar going on FLORENCE So, through no fault of my own, I'm in it way over my head Embarrassed, outnumbered, marooned ANATOLY Now she can't be working for them -  I mean us - She seems so very straightforward -  But where is he? FLORENCE He has to turn up - it can't come to nothing Perhaps it can! ANATOLY Maybe he's scared - But he didn't seem scared 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 ANATOLY Well at least she's a good-looking spy FLORENCE What if my Russian friend thinks that my plans Have nothing to do with the chess? If I don't say something and soon He'll go - Maybe I'm on nobody's side! ANATOLY Listen, I hate to break up the mood Get to the point, begin the beguine Haven't you noticed we're still one character short In this idyllic, well-produced scene? FLORENCE How could I not, Miss Vassy regrets Anything goes, with your opponent ANATOLY Never mind him -  I haven't missed him so far Maybe it won't do any harm To struggle on without his charm Funny how all at once I feel Nothing about this meeting matters anymore FLORENCE This is the one situation  I wanted most to avoid ANATOLY My dear opponent -  I really can't imagine why FLORENCE You'll think I'm the dangerous kind - Well I am! ANATOLY You, you're not dangerous -  Who could think that of you? FLORENCE You - you are so strange -  Why can't you be what you ought to be? BOTH You should be scheming, intriguing, too clever by half - ANATOLY I have to hand 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 with someone like you FREDDIE Who'd ever think it? Such a very pretty setting! Tell me what's the betting Very pretty plotting too? No matter - I've done all your work for you. Who'd ever guess it? Daughter in collaboration With the very nation Gave her father third degree! Where's Daddy? Dead or in the KGB? SO YOU GOT WHAT YOU WANT FREDDIE So you got what you want What a nasty ambition! Set me up, pull me down Then exploit my condition I should have guessed, woman That if pressed, woman You're on nobody's side but your own And you're behaving Like a mere woman It's so clear, woman-- It's your sex! Once they start getting old and getting worried They let fly, take it out On the one that supports them That's you that I'm talking about FLORENCE Who'd ever guess it? Such a squalid little ending Watching you descending Just as far as you can go I'm learning things I didn't want to know FREDDIE Who'd ever think it? This would be the situation-- One more observation-- How'd we ever get this far Before you showed me what you really are? FLORENCE You'll be lost without me To abuse like you're used to FREDDIE Go away! Just get out! Be someone else's parasite! NOBODY'S SIDE FLORENCE What's going on around me Is barely making sense I need some explanations fast I see my present partner In the imperfect tense And I don't see how we can last I feel I need a change of cast Maybe I'm on nobody's side And when he gives me reasons To justify each move They're getting harder to believe I know this can't continue I've still a lot to prove There must be more I could achieve But I don't have the nerve to leave Everybody's playing the game But nobody's rules are the same Nobody's on nobody's side Better learn to go it alone Recognize you're out on your own Nobody's on nobody's side The one I should not think of Keeps rolling through my mind And I don't want to let that go No lover's ever faithful No contract truly signed There's nothing certain left to know And how the cracks begin to show! Never make a promise or plan Take a little love where you can Nobody's on nobody's side Never stay too long in your bed Never lose your heart, use your head Nobody's on nobody's side Never take a stranger's advice Never let a friend fool you twice Nobody's on nobody's side Never be the first to believe Never be the last to deceive Nobody's on nobody's side And-- Never leave a moment too soon Never waste a hot afternoon Nobody's on nobody's side Never stay a minute too long Don't forget the best will go wrong Nobody's on nobody's side Better learn to go it alone  Recognize you're out on your own Nobody's on nobody's side ANTHEM ANATOLY No man, no madness Though their sad power may prevail Can possess, conquer, my country's heart They rise to fail She is eternal Long before nations lines were drawn When no flags flew, when no armies stood My land was born And you ask me why I love her Through wars, death and despair She is the constant, we who don't care And you wonder will I leave her - but how? I cross over borders but I'm still there now How can I leave her? Where would I start? Let man's petty nations tear themselves apart My land's only borders lie around my heart ARBITER'S SONG ARBITER I've a duty as the referee As we restart the clock Of reminding all and sundry I took grave offense At events In Bangkok Just a hint of trouble this time around And I'll be on your back I will jump on all offenders from a massive height Don't invite Any flak I'm on the case Can't be fooled Any objection Is overruled Yes I'm the Arbiter and I know best CHORUS He's impartial don't push him he's unimpressed. ARBITER If you're thinking of the kind of thing That we've seen in the past Chanting gurus, walkie-talkies, walkouts, hypnotists, Tempers, fists Not so fast! I don't care if you're a champion No-one messes with me I am ruthless in upholding what I know is right Black or white As you'll see I'm on the case Can't be fooled Any objection Is overruled Yes I'm the Arbiter and I know best CHORUS He's impartial don't push him he's unimpressed ARBITER As you settle down behind your pawns Power passes to me You can play like Fischer, Capablanca, Tal combined I don't mind - Please feel free! They all thought they were the big fromage But they don't have my clout I control the match; I start it, I can call it off Kasparov Found that out I'm on the case Can't be fooled Any objection Is overruled Yes, I'm the Arbiter I know the score CHORUS From square one he'll be watching all sixty-four! HUNGARIAN FOLK SONG CHOIR Minden vagyam visszaszall Oda hol az edes hazam var Zold erdo viragos ret Shal a regl regl hazam meg Tudom egyszer visszeterek en Vissza meg, vissza meg Vissza meg, vissza meg Bujdosasom veget er S’itt vagoyok ujra Szep hazamban en Nem csabit a messzeseg Nem csabit a naguyvllag Eimult minen kisertesem mar Tudom itthon vagyok vegre mar Bujdoaasom beget ert Sitt vagyok vegre Szep hazamban en HEAVEN HELP MY HEART FLORENCE If it were love I would give that love every second I had And I do Do I know where he'll lead me to? Did I plan Doing all of this for the love of a man? Well I let it happen anyhow And what I'm feeling now Has no easy explanation, reason plays no part Heaven help my heart I love him too much What if he saw my whole existence Turning around a word, a smile, a touch? One of these days, and it won't be long, he'll know more about me Than he should All my dreams will be understood No surprise Nothing more to learn from the look in my eyes Don't you know that time is not my friend? I'll fight it to the end Hoping to keep that best of moments When the passions start Heaven help my heart The day that I find Suddenly I've run out of secrets Suddenly I'm not always on his mind Maybe it's best to love a stranger Well that's what I've done - heaven help my heart Heaven help my heart NO CONTEST WALTER You take care you don't let Their shenanigans blind you And you're wrong to forget You've got your country behind you FREDDIE You're a fool if you think you can wave a flag And inspire some dramatic action If I want bad enough then it's in the bag If I don't you're a mere distraction WALTER You taught me baby How the few who win acquire What their hearts desire It ain't practice, it ain't skill They'll help but not as much as wanting will FREDDIE No contest baby! Pay no mind to reputation You want concentration? When they pick him off the floor It's 'cause I wanted it a little more WALTER You can win you can lose Take or be a possession You taught me how to choose And the key is obsession FREDDIE See my eyes, are they safe are they even sane? Are they warm when they seem to greet you? You don't know, you can't tell, but it should be plain These are eyes that are gonna beat you Don't ever tell me I don't know the way to play it Do I have to say it? Doesn't matter what he tries I have him, you can see it in the eyes. BOTH No contest, baby! Barely any point in playing When it's just delaying What we both already know He lost it a woman and a half ago. YOU AND I FLORENCE This is an all too familiar scene Life imperceptibly coming between Those whose love is as strong as it could or should be ANATOLY Nothing has altered - FLORENCE - Yet everything's changed ANATOLY No one stands still - BOTH Still I love you completely and hope I always will ANATOLY Why do we need to put love into words? Causing confusion We protest, explain Reassure, in vain Come to no conclusion FLORENCE I'd give the world to stay just as we are It's better by far Not to be too wise Not to realize BOTH Where there's truth there will be lies FLORENCE You and I We've seen it all Been down this road before Yet we go on believing - BOTH You and I We've seen it all Chasing our hearts desire Yet we go on believing Nothing can harm us This is forever YOU AND I (Reprise) SVETLANA You knew better than me Where your ambitions would take us I knew sooner than you That those ambitions would break us You would not believe me Why should you believe me? I held you back You and your dreams Who needs a dream? Who needs ambition? Who'd be the fool In my position? Year after year I'm still denying Anything's changed Anything's dying But then -- SVETLANA & ANATOLY You and I We've seen it all Been down this road before But we went on believing -- You and I We've seen it all Chasing our heart's desire -- SVETLANA But I go on pretending Stories like ours Have happy endings LET'S WORK TOGETHER MOLOKOV Now you and I we've been around We've seen them all come and go We don't need to put each other down WALTER I don't think that I like what I hear Too sincere I don't want to know MOLOKOV Don't be to quick to condemn And don't assume you're on top WALTER C'mon Ivan you can't win 'em all MOLOKOV And why not? Or at least we can go for a draw WALTER Tell me more... MOLOKOV Only talking shop? There comes a time when we should pool resources Could be the answer to our nation's prayers Let's work together for the only course is To mix our laissez and our savoir faires You know how much that helps the guys upstairs WALTER I hope you don't misunderstand For I don't want to close doors We're communicators after all MOLOKOV Well, we all have our own point of view Maybe you Ought to stick to yours WALTER I like to be my own man But in the light of your words... MOLOKOV No...the light was in the envelope WALTER Very good! But it's time to put rancour aside Petty pride MOLOKOV Strictly for the birds! WALTER There comes a time when we should pool resources Could be the answer to our nations' prayers Let's work together for the only course is To mix our laissez and our savoir faires You know how much that helps the guys upstairs BOTH Let's work together and the world is safer The Berlin Wall becomes a backyard fence And our cooperation paves the way for Our prime time leaders and the main events Behind the scenes we show some common sense A little mutual convenience WALTER Comrade! MOLOKOV Buddy! BOTH It's our best defense I KNOW HIM SO WELL FLORENCE Nothing is so good it lasts eternally Perfect situations must go wrong But this has never yet prevented me Wanting far too much for far too long Looking back I could have played it differently Won a few more moments, who can tell? But it took time to understand the man Now at least I know I know him well Wasn't it good? SVETLANA Oh so good FLORENCE Wasn't he fine? SVETLANA Oh so fine FLORENCE Isn't it madness? BOTH He can't be mine? FLORENCE But in the end he needs  A little bit more than me More security SVETLANA He needs his fantasy and freedom FLORENCE I know him so well SVETLANA No one in your life is with you constantly No one is completely on your side And though I move my world to be with him Still the gap between us is too wide Looking back I could have played it differently FLORENCE Looking back I could have played it differently SVETLANA Learned about the man before I fell FLORENCE I was just a little careless maybe SVETLANA But I was ever so much younger then FLORENCE Now at least I know him well SVETLANA Now at least BOTH I know I know him well SVETLANA Wasn't it good? FLORENCE Oh so good SVETLANA Wasn't he fine? FLORENCE Oh so fine SVETLANA Isn't it madness BOTH He won't be mine? Didn't I know How it would go? If I knew from the start Why am I falling apart? SVETLANA Wasn't it good? Wasn't he fine FLORENCE Isn't it madness BOTH He won't be mine? FLORENCE But in the end he needs a little bit more than me - More security SVETLANA He needs his fantasy and freedom FLORENCE I know him so well SVETLANA It took time to understand him BOTH I know him so well. PITY THE CHILD FREDDIE When I was nine I learned survival Taught myself not to care I was my single good companion Taking my comfort there Up in my room I planned my conquests On my own - never asked for a helping hand No one would understand I never asked the pair who fought below Just in case they said no Pity the child who has ambition Knows what he wants to do Knows that he'll never fit the system Others expect him to Pity the child who knew his parents Saw their faults, saw their love die before his eyes Pity a child that wise He never asked did I cause your distress? Just in case they said yes When I was twelve my father moved out Left with a whimper - not with a shout I didn't miss him - he made it perfectly clear I was a fool and probably *** Fool that I was I thought this would bring Those he had left closer together She made her move the moment he walked away I was the last the woman told She never let her bed get cold Someone moved in - I shut my door Someone to treat her just the same way as before I took the road of least resistance I had my game to play I had the skill, and more - the hunger Easy to get away Pity the child with no such weapons No defence, no escape from the ties that bind Always a step behind I never called to tell her all I'd done I was only her son! Pity the child but not forever Not if he stays that way He can get all he ever wanted If he's prepared to pay Pity instead the careless mother What she missed  What she lost when she let me go And I wonder does she know I wouldn't call - a crazy thing to do Just in case she said who? LULLABY APUKAD FATHER Aludj kicsi lanykam Sleep my little girl Hynyd be szemecsked Keep your eyes closed Almod edes szarnyan On the wings of sweet dream Suhanj konnyeden Fly undisturbed Apukad eros kezen On your daddy's strong hand Elaludt a parnad Your pillow is asleep Elalszik a feny Soon the lamp will sleep Suhanj kicsi lanykam Fly my little girl Almod kek egen On the blue sky of dream Apukad eros kezen On your daddy's strong hand Jatekaid arvan Your little toys Varnak szerteszet Are asleep around you Egyetlen bogarkam Sleep my little angel APUKAD & FLORENCE FATHER & FLORENCE Aludj konnyeden Sleep gently lulled Aoukad eros kezen By your daddy's strong hand ENDGAME ARBITER'S ASSISTANTS Did you make it clear That he has to be here? Does he understand He will lose his title? ARBITER How straightforward the game When all its rules are respected And these rules are the same For a champion or for a novice No show, no dice, no appeal, no exceptions, no way! MERCHANDISERS Do you think he knows What it's gonna cost him? Does the player exist In any human endeavor... Do you think he cares What it's gonna cost him? ...Who's been known to resist Sirens of fame an possessions? Threaten to cut off supplies and he'll come out to play RUSSIANS He's a broken man: Good as back in Moscow NIKOLAI It's the weak who extol *** untruths about freedom.... RUSSIANS What a way to learn Home is where the heart is NIKOLAI ...Prostituting the soul Chasing some spurious starlight Trinkets in airports sufficient to lead them astray CIA Selfish little creep Everybody suffers BEN I'm no expert in chess But hazard this prognostication.... CIA Selfish little creep Everybody suffers BEN That the late mister S Has better chances of winning The Kentucky Derby than keeping his title today CIA Selfish little creep Everybody suffers We don't see the jerk Even coming second JOURNALISTS We are all aware of reputation But one empty chair is condemnation Of a man who blew it scuttled with dishonor MERCHANDISERS, CIA MEN No one gives a damn For his dilemma Just another scam We're sick of them, a Lot of jobs at stake With Russia's primadonna ARBITER & ASSISTANTS We can hardly begin to Imagine why he'd risk all he's put into His calling through the years The blood, the sweat, the tears The late, late nights, the early starts MORE JOURNALISTS Of course the effect is Exactly what observers will expect, viz. The world is set to cheer The only one who's here The bad guy's gone and won their hearts EVERYBODY Is he still in bed? Or in the shower? Even if he's dead They won't allow a Man to show up after the appointed hour ANATOLY They all think they see a man Who doesn't know Which move to make Which way to go Whose private life Caused his decline Wrecked his grand design Some are vicious, some are fools To see in me One of their kind FREDDIE So he's gonna fight This situation Where's my appetite For concentration? Why is he so focused When my thoughts are straying Looking at this man It's her I'm seeing Once my greatest fan And now her being His, still gets to me And screws the way I'm playing ANATOLY Here I see a man caring About a minor sporting triumph, sharing A show with esoterics Paranoids, hysterics Who don't pay attention to What goes on around them They leave the ones they touch the way they found them Is this the life I need? A childish, selfish greed While those who love me bleed to death Then I think of her Her and her father What would she prefer? I know I'd rather Live my life alone than feel That I had harmed them FREDDIE At last! He's made a mistake! ANATOLY I cannot go on hurting all the people who have trusted me FREDDIE He will not escape from here ANATOLY So here we are The final stages of a soul-destroying game The sacrifice of someone I will never find again FREDDIE ANATOLY Check! Never! Check! Never! Check! Never! Check! Never! Check! Never! FREDDIE Backed the losing side Florence Vassy Took you for a ride Florence Vassy You just haven't got the instict of a winner ANATOLY There is nothing more to do No hope, no way To save the game The end of play So I lose today And tomorrow ALL We have just witnessed history made Power moves west, ending an era This is a great day for American chess! YOU AND I (Reprise) ANATOLY Knowing I want you Knowing I love you Cannot compare With my despair Knowing I've lost you FLORENCE I've been a fool to allow Dreams to become  Great expectations ANATOLY How could I love you so much Yet make no move? BOTH There will be days and nights When I'll want you more than I want to More than I should Oh, how I want you You and I We've seen it all Chasing our hearts' desire But we go on pretending Stories like ours Have happy endings ANATOLY You could not give me More than you gave me I don't know why I'm standing by Watching this happen FLORENCE I won't look back anymore And if I do - just for a moment ANATOLY I can't imagine a time when I won't care BOTH But here we are today Hold me and tell me We'll meet again Why won't you tell me? You and I We've seen it all Chasing our hearts' desire But we go on pretending....