Chess New York movie - Endgame lyrics
rate me<br>
[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>
<br>
[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>
<br>
[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>
<br>
[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>
<br>
[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>
<br>
[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>
<br>
[C.I.A. MEN]<br>
Selfish little creep.<br>
Everybody suffers.<br>
We don't see the jerk<br>
Even coming second.<br>
<br>
[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>
<br>
[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>
<br>
[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>
<br>
[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>
<br>
[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>
<br>
[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>
<br>
[ANATOLY]<br>
I cannot go on hurting all the people who have trusted me.<br>
<br>
[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>
<br>
[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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