Chess New York movie

Chess New York movie - Endgame lyrics

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[ARBITER'S ASSISTANTS]<br>

Did you make it clear<br>

That he has to be here?<br>

Does he understand<br>

He will lose his title?<br>

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[ARBITER]<br>

How straightforward the game<br>

When all the rules are respected...<br>

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[ARBITER'S ASSISTANTS]<br>

Did you make it clear<br>

There are no exceptions?<br>

<br>

[ARBITER]<br>

...And these rules are the same<br>

For a champion or for a novice<br>

No show, no dice, no appeal, no exceptions, no way!<br>

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[MERCHANDISER'S ASSISTANTS]<br>

Do you think he knows<br>

What it's gonna cost him?<br>

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[MERCHANDISER]<br>

Does the player exist<br>

In any human endeavor...<br>

<br>

[MERCHANDISER'S ASSISTANTS]<br>

Do you think he cares<br>

What it's gonna cost us?<br>

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[MERCHANDISER]<br>

...Who's been known to resist<br>

Sirens of fame and possessions?<br>

Threaten to cut off supplies and he'll come out to play.<br>

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[RUSSIANS]<br>

He's a broken man:<br>

Good as back in Moscow.<br>

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[NIKOLAI]<br>

It's the weak who extol<br>

Tawdry untruths about freedom...<br>

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[RUSSIANS]<br>

What a way to learn<br>

Home is where the heart is.<br>

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[NIKOLAI]<br>

...Prostituting the soul<br>

Chasing some spurious starlight<br>

Trinkets in airports sufficient to lead them astray.<br>

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[C.I.A. MEN]<br>

Selfish little creep.<br>

Everybody suffers.<br>

<br>

[BEN]<br>

I'm no expert in chess<br>

But hazard this prognostication...<br>

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[C.I.A. MEN]<br>

Selfish little creep.<br>

Everybody suffers.<br>

<br>

[BEN]<br>

That the late Mister "S"<br>

Has better chances of winning<br>

The Kentucky Derby than keeping his title today.<br>

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[C.I.A. MEN]<br>

Selfish little creep.<br>

Everybody suffers.<br>

We don't see the jerk<br>

Even coming second.<br>

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[JOURNALISTS]<br>

We are all aware of reputation<br>

But one empty chair is condemnation<br>

Of a man who blew it scuttled with dishonor.<br>

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[MERCHANDISERS & C.I.A. MEN]<br>

No one gives a damn for his dilemma<br>

Just another scam<br>

We're sick of them, a<br>

Lot of jobs at stake<br>

With Russia's primadonna.<br>

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[ARBITER & ASSISTANTS]<br>

We can hardly begin to<br>

Imagine why he'd risk all he's put into<br>

His calling through the years<br>

The blood, the sweat, the tears,<br>

The late, late nights, the early starts.<br>

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[MORE JOURNALISTS]<br>

Of course the effect is<br>

Exactly what observers would expect viz.<br>

The world is set to cheer<br>

The only one who's here<br>

The bad guy's gone and won their hearts.<br>

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[EVERYBODY]<br>

Is he still in bed?<br>

Or in the shower?<br>

Even if he's dead<br>

They won't allow a<br>

Man to show up after the appointed hour.<br>

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[ANATOLY]<br>

They all think they see a man<br>

Who doesn't know<br>

Which move to make<br>

Which way to go<br>

Whose private life<br>

Caused his decline<br>

Wrecked his grand design<br>

Some are vicious, some are fools<br>

And others blind<br>

To see in me<br>

One of their kind.<br>

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[FREDDIE]<br>

So he's gonna fight<br>

This situation<br>

Where's my appetite<br>

For concentration<br>

Why is he so focused<br>

When my thoughts are straying.<br>

<br>

Looking at this man<br>

It's her I'm seeing<br>

Once my greatest fan<br>

And now her being<br>

His still gets to me<br>

And screws the way I'm playing.<br>

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[ANATOLY]<br>

Here I see a man caring<br>

About a minor sporting triumph, sharing<br>

A show with esoterics<br>

Paranoids, hysterics<br>

Who don't pay attention to<br>

What goes on around them<br>

They leave all those they touch the way they found them<br>

Is this the life I need?<br>

A childish, selfish greed<br>

While those who love me bleed to death.<br>

<br>

When I think of her<br>

Her and her father<br>

What would she prefer?<br>

I know I'd rather<br>

Live my life alone than feel<br>

That I had harmed them.<br>

<br>

[FREDDIE]<br>

At last! He's made a mistake!<br>

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[ANATOLY]<br>

I cannot go on hurting all the people who have trusted me.<br>

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[FREDDIE]<br>

He cannot escape from here!<br>

<br>

[ANATOLY]<br>

Well here we are --<br>

The final stages of a soul-destroying game<br>

The sacrifice of someone I will never find again.<br>

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[FREDDIE]<br>

Check!<br>

[ANATOLY]<br>

Never!<br>

[FREDDIE]<br>

Check!<br>

[ANATOLY]<br>

Never!<br>

[FREDDIE]<br>

Check!<br>

[ANATOLY]<br>

Never!<br>

[FREDDIE]<br>

Check!<br>

[ANATOLY]<br>

Never!<br>

[FREDDIE]<br>

Check!<br>

[ANATOLY]<br>

Never!<br>

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[FREDDIE]<br>

Backed the losing side<br>

Florence Vassy<br>

Took you for a ride<br>

Florence Vassy<br>

You just haven't got the instinct of a winner.<br>

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[ANATOLY]<br>

There is nothing more to do<br>

No hope, no way<br>

To save the game;<br>

The end of play!<br>

So I lose today<br>

And tomorrow.<br>

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[ALL]<br>

We have just witnessed history made<br>

Power moves west ending an era<br>

This is a great day for American chess!<br>

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!<br>

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