Chess - I Know Him So Well lyrics

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FLORENCE

Svetlana?

SVETLANA

Florence

FLORENCE

I don't know what to say

SVETLANA

There is nothing. I have seen what he really needs

and I can't give that to him - you can

FLORENCE

You don't understand. What he really needs is you and his family -

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 some other way

SVETLANA

Learned a little more before I fell

FLORENCE

I was just a little careless maybe

SVETLANA

But I was ever so much younger then

FLORENCE

I was so much younger then

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?

FLORENCE

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.