Florence and Molokov lyrics

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

• Artist:Chess (musical)
• Album:Chess In Concert (2008 Live)