Chess - Florence And Molokov (feat. Idina Menzel) lyrics

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Molokov: [Spoken]

The game is greater than its players, Miss Vassy.

How true.

[Sung]

I don't know how you can allow

This harm to be done to chess,

And how this baby of yours

Can be persuaded back to the game.

Florence: [Spoken]

Easy. You stop playing politics and you start playing chess.

[Sung]

I don't know how

You have the gall to

Criticize us

When it is all too

Obvious this is what you wanted,

We get the blame.

[Spoken]

Your man, following orders, was planning some

sort of bust-up from the word go.

Molokov:

You really are mad,

He has no orders

Now let me put my cards

Upon your table--

If he is aggrieved,

then who can blame him?

He is up against a man

Who's less than stable.

Florence:

Who rocked his chair

Throughout the match then?

Who sniffed and coughed,

Began to scratch, then

Played with his flag

And tapped his fingers

Then took a walk?

[Spoken]

Your precious boy!

[Sung]

Listen, you plutocratic throwback,

You and your cronies wanna go back

Home to your Dachas, not the salt mines?

[Spoken]

We better talk!

Molokov: [Spoken]

I wish, Florienz--

Florence: [Spoken]

Florence!

Molokov: [Spoken]

Florence, you would refrain from cheap political jibe

at a time when cooperation between us is vital.

Besides, I would have thought you'd be reluctant

to criticize fellow Eastern European.

Florence: [Spoken]

Fellow Eastern Europeans! I was born a Hungarian.

Do you remember Hungary? I wish I could. I was only

five when you bastards moved in. I have no memory

of my homeland-- my mother, my father, my people--

all taken from me by you!

[Sung]

And you call yourself

A fellow Eastern European!

Molokov:

Come now, Miss Vassy,

We're digressing

Back to the point,

Let's start addressing

All our attention

To the World Chess

Championship.

Florence: [Spoken]

Cut the crap! They have to meet. If you deliver Anatoly,

I will deliver Freddie, at the Merano Mountain Inn, famous

for its peace and tranquility. That's where I'll do the business.

Molokov: [Spoken]

We'll do the business.

Florence: [Spoken]

I'll do the business.