Chess (Complete Cast Album) - Press Conference текст песни

REPORTER 1
Does your opponent deserve such abuse?

FREDDIE
All Soviets deserve abuse!

REPORTER 2
But even you must concede he can play

FREDDIE
Oh he's the best red on the circuit, sure I'll give him that.

REPORTER 3
He hasn't lost in a long time, he could be a tough nut to crack.

FREDDIE
Listen, if he gets one game off me it's because I want to keep press interest going.

ALL REPORTERS
Why do you persist with vicious attacks
Ungracious remarks re: opponents, it smacks
Of a lack of condition, admit you're under duress
And that your skill left is for money not chess.

If Soviet life's as grim as you claim,
Then how come their boys are so good at the game?
Though you swear the American dream is really the best
You're not advertisement for life and times in the west.

REPORTER 4
Why did you risk the whole match breaking down?

FREDDIE
I dunno what you're saying. What are you implying?

REPORTER 5
All your outrageous demands, self conceit.

FREDDIE
I don't see anything outrageous in demanding what I'm worth.

REPORTER 6
They pay you all that you ask for, and then you demand even more.

FREDDIE
I am the reason you're all here, who ever heard of Sergevsky?

ALL REPORTERS
It's hard to believe what we're reporting
Why so disparaging? Not very sporting.

FREDDIE
Are the communists sporting? My god!

ALL REPORTERS
Tell all this to the United Nations
Are you an asset to east-west relations?

FREDDIE
What is this, what have the Russians ever done for east-west relations? Do you guys have any serious questions?

REPORTER 7
What's your impression of our little town?

FREDDIE
Rather cold and dull, as I expected.

REPORTER 8
Well would you rather have played Leningrad?

FREDDIE
Leningrad was an insulting Soviet suggestion.

REPORTER 9
They only tried to be friendly, they would have played in New York

FREDDIE
Oh come on, you know as well as I do what their motives were!

ALL REPORTERS
You protest to much, we see your ploy--a
Big noise to hide your fears, pure paranoia

FREDDIE
I'm not paranoid, they're out to get me!

ALL REPORTERS
Tell all this to the United Nations
Are you an asset to east-west relations?

REPORTER 10
Will you be quitting for good if you lose?

REPORTER 11
How come your second's a girl, lover boy?

FREDDIE
What are you saying?

REPORTER 11
How come your second's a girl, lover boy?

*Brass blares as Freddie does something unprofessional to reporter 11*

ALL REPORTERS
Well what did I say? He's out of his tree
He's finally flipped, and between you and me
He's no hope of retaining his run in this frame of mind
In fact he shouldn't have come
(chorus split, simultaneous)
-Here he should have resigned
-Back he should have been sacked.


ALL REPORTERS (simultaneous with Florence below)
Well what did I say? He's out of his tree
He's finally flipped, and between you and me
He's no hope of retaining his run in this frame of mind
In fact he shouldn't have come here he should have resigned

If he is in this frame of mind
He should be dumped
He should be resigned.

If he is in this frame of mind
He should be dumped
He should be resigned.

If he is in this frame of mind
He should be dumped
He should be resigned.

FLORENCE (simultaneous with ALL REPORTERS lines above)
Smile! You've got your first exclusive story
Now you can bask in his reflective glory
Naked, unprovoked Yankee aggression
Oh what a credit to your great profession!

ALL REPORTERS
Her bail out's too quick, he's still number one
The quest to defeat reputation undone.
Though he's proved to himself it's a communist plot
If you ask me it's money that did it that started the rot
It's sad that the best this country's produced
Is struggling in front of our eyes and reduced
To a mindless abuse and assault on all of mankind
In fact he shouldn't have come
(chorus split, simultaneous)
-Here he should have resigned
-Back he should have been sacked.