Chess [musical] - Mountain Duet [In Concert, 1994]

[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 walk on 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,

But he didn't seem scared

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 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 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 one 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]

No, you are not dangerous

Who could think that of you?

[BOTH]

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