Chess (Complete Cast Album) - Florence And Molokov текст песни

MOLOKOV
The game is greater than its players Ms. Vassey, how true!

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
Easy. You stop playing politics and start playing chess.

I don't know how you have the gall to
criticize us when it is all to
obvious this is what you wanted
we get the blame

Your man, no doubt following orders, was after some sort of bust-up from the word go.

MOLOKOV
You really are mad, he has no order
now let me put my cards upon the table

If he is aggrieved, then who can blame him?
He is up against a man who's less than stable.

FLORENCE
Freddie less than stable? You're goading him.

Who rocked his chair throughout the match then
who slipped and coughed, began to scratch then
played with his flag and rubbed his fingers,
then took a walk

Your precious boy.

MOLOKOV
Pickydillo...

FLORENCE
Peccadillo.

MOLOKOV
Peccadillo, compared with the neurotic behavior of Trumper.

FLORENCE
Listen you plutocratic throwback
you and your cronies want to go back
home to your dashas, not the salt mines
Then we'd better talk.

MOLOKOV
I wish, Florience...

FLORENCE
Florence.

MOLOKOV
...that you would refrain from cheap political jibes at a time when cooperation between us is vital. Besides, I would have thought you would be reluctant to criticize fellow eastern Europeans.

FLORENCE
Fellow eastern Europeans? I'm a Hungarian. Remember Hungary? I wish I could. But 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!

And you call
yourself a fellow eastern European

MOLOKOV
Come now Ms. Vassey we're digressing,
back to the point let's start addressing
all our attention to the world chess champion ship.

FLORENCE
Merano Mountain Inn, famous for its peace and tranquility. That is where I want you to deliver me one Soviet grandmaster.

(INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE)

WALTER
For God's sake be reasonable!

FREDDIE
Twenty thousand dollars.

WALTER
Why should we pay to televise tantrums,
we'd prefer to see chess being played.
You can deal with him, he's getting heated
now he's claiming that he's underpaid?

FREDDIE
And as for you...

I shouldn't have to be dealing with Walter,
where were you when the shit hit the fan?

FLORENCE
Saving your income by fixing a meeting,
so you'd better start liking the man!

FREDDIE
Well the interest is bigger than ever,
and my walkout my smartest move yet.
Are you serious that I ought to meet him,
on the top of a mountain?

FLORENCE
You bet.

FREDDIE
Can't you see that you're losing your grip dear,
are the communists fooling you too?
Why should I be the only one trying?