Chess Mountain Duet Lyrics

Mountain Duet Lyrics

FLORENCE

This is the one situation I wanted most to avoid

Nothing I say will convince him this isn't a trick.



THE RUSSIAN

A drink on a clear moonlit night--I relax, she smiles

There's something unpleasant going on



FLORENCE

So with immaculate timing, I'm left to carry the can

Embarrassed, outnumbered, marooned--



THE RUSSIAN

Now she can't be working for them--I mean us--

She seems so very straightforward--

But where is he?



FLORENCE

He has to come back--he wanted this meeting, well didn't he?



THE RUSSIAN

Maybe he's scared--just as scared as he was in the game



FLORENCE

Oh I just couldn't care less

He can go right ahead, go and wreck his career

I know I've done my best



THE RUSSIAN

Well, at least she's a good-looking spy.



FLORENCE

What if my Russian friend thinks that my plans

Are more of an intimate kind?

If I don't say something and soon

He'll go-- nobody's on nobody's side.



THE RUSSIAN

Listen, I hate to break up the mood

Get to the point, begin the begin

Haven't you noticed we're a protagonist short

In this idyllic, well-produced scene?



FLORENCE

All I can say is moments ago

He was right here ready and waiting



THE RUSSIAN

Never mind him--I haven't missed him so far



BOTH

Maybe it won't do any harm

To struggle on without his charm?

Funny how all at once I feel

That he can go jump off the mountain I won't care



FLORENCE

This is the one situation I wanted most to avoid



THE RUSSIAN

My dear opponent--I really can't imagine why



FLORENCE

So I am not dangerous then?

What a shame!



THE RUSSIAN

Oh you're not dangerous--who could think that of you?



BOTH

You--you are so strange--why can't you be what you ought to be?

You should be scheming, intriguing, too clever by half--



THE RUSSIAN

I have to hand it to you

For you've managed to make me forget why I ever agreed to this farce.

BOTH

I don't know why I can't think of anything

I would rather do

than be wasting my time

on mountains with you