Chess - The Soviet Machine Lyrics

1988 Broadway
Chess the Musical - The Soviet Machine Lyrics

MOLOKOV: (spoken)
Comrades, why are you looking so worried?
We are not dealing with the traitor Sogievsky now.
Comrade Viigand is a disciplined,
Soviet, chess-playing machine

(sung)
Just in case you feel a trace
Of doubt or even nervous tension
Let me draw the latest score
To your attention
Not the score, the witless score
That commentators are debating
Come, admit, who gives a shit
For Elo rating

No, I prefer
And I'm sure you concur
To see who's ahead
Psychologically, for example
We have on tap
An inscrutable chap
Whose thoughts never stray
From the state of the play

ALL: (spoken)
Viigand!

MOLOKOV: (spoken)
Whereas...

(sung)
It's so difficult to concentrate if
You have left your native
Country for a woman who has plans of her own
It's not easy for a chap to excel
Feeling guilty as hell
Having left his wife to face the music alone
But, even worse
Imagine if his ladies met
Well then I'll bet
The atmosphere 'round here
Would be a little strained
As she explained

How could he do
What he's done to those two
Most wonderful girls
Yes, I love you both

SOLOISTS:
Most amusing!

MOLOKOV:
Starting them scratch
They'll torpedo his match
His horsepower dead
On the board and in bed

ALL:
Bit by bit the pieces fit
The Soviet machine advances
Not one move that
Won't improve our nation's chances
We predict a stunning victory
Both on the board and off it
This will show that traitor
No one rats with profit

But we're going to smash that bastard
Make him wanna change his name
Take him to the cleaners and devastate him
Wipe him out, humiliate him
We don't want the whole world saying
"They can't even win a game."
We have never reckoned on coming second

MOLOKOV:
There's no use in
Losing

SOLOISTS:
We can feel the flame
Of triumph burning
Our people's pride returning

MOLOKOV:
Bit by bit the pieces fit
The soviet machine advances

ALL:
Not one move that won't
Improve our nation's chances
Hoi!

MOLOKOV:
No, I prefer
And I'm sure you concur
To see who's ahead
Psychologically, for example
We have on tap
An inscrutable chap
Whose thoughts never stray
From the state of the play

ALL:
La la la la, la la lay la lay la
La la la la la la la la la la la

Bit by bit the pieces fit
The soviet machine advances
Not one move that won't
Improve our nation's chances
Hey!
We predict a stunning victory
Both on the board and off it
This will show that traitor
No one rats with profit

Ah ah, la la la la!

MOLOKOV:
From Moscow to the Bering Strait
Citizens will hail our victory

ALL:
In arctic circles, frozen states
Will join with warmer climes in reverie

MOLOKOV:
And I can say of this affair
I was there
Did my share
Played my part

ALL:
And comrades all will be aware
I was there
From the start
Mmm mmm...

VIIGAND:
Ah ah...

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SYNOPSIS
The Story of Chess
Merano
Commie Newspapers
Press Conference
Anatoly & Molokov
Where I Want to Be
Diplomats
The Arbiter
Hymn to Chess
Merchandisers
The Arbiter (Reprise)
Quartet (A Model of Decorum and Tranquility)
Florence and Molokov
1956 – Budapest is Rising
Nobody's Side
Mountain Duet
Florence Quits
Pity the Child
Embassy Lament
Heaven Help My Heart
Anatoly and the Press
Anthem
One Night in Bangkok
One More Opponent
You and I
The Soviet Machine
The Interview
Someone Else's Story
The Deal
I Know Him So Well
Talking Chess
Endgame
You and I (Reprise)
Anthem (Reprise)