Chess - Mountain Duet Lyrics

1988 Broadway
Chess the Musical - 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 peculiar 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 else 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 beguine
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 RUSSIA:
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 had 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.

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Chess the Musical Lyrics

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)