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Tal; Lasker; Steinitz; Alekine; Botvinnik; Smyslov;
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Spassky; Euwe; Fischer; Petrosian; Anderson;
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Capablanca; Morphy; Karpov;
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(In the concept album the names are listed in chronological order, here they are in the order in which they are sung)
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Choir
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1866 Wilhelm Steinitz
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1894 Emanuel Lasker
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Molokov
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How straightforward the game
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When one has trust in one's player (Choir 1921 Jose Capablanca)
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And how great the relief
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Working for one who believes in
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Loyalty, heritage, true to his kind come what may
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Choir
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1927 Alexander Alekine
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The American
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Though it gives me no joy (The Russian 1935 Euwe)
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Adding to your satisfaction (Choir 1948 Mikhail Botvinnik)
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You can safely assume
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That your late unlamented employee
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Knows if he wins then the only thing won is the chess
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Choir
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1957 Vasily Smyslov
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Molokov
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It's the weak who accept (Florence 1960 Tal)
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Tawdry untruths about freedom (Choir 1963 Tigran Petrosian)
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Prostituting themselves
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Chasing a spurious starlight
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Trinkets in airports sufficient to lead them astray
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Choir
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1969 Boris Spassky
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Florence
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Does the player exist (Choir 1972 Bobby Fischer)
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In any human endeavour (Choir 1975 Anatoly Karpov)
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Who's been known to resist
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Sirens of fame and possessions?
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They will destroy you, not rivals, not age, not success
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The Russian
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They all think they see a man
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Who doesn't know
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Which move to make
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Which way to go
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Whose private life
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Caused his decline
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Wrecked his grand design
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Some are vicious, some are fools
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And others blind
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To see in me one of there kind
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Anyone can be
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A husband, lover
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Sooner them than me
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When they discover
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Their domestic bliss is
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Shelter for their failing
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Nothing could be worse
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Than self-denial
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Having to rehearse
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To endless trial
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Of a partners rather sad
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Demands prevailing
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Svetlana
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As you watch yourself caring
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About a minor sporting triumph, sharing
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Your win with esoterics,
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Paranoids, hysterics,
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Who don't pay any attention to
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What goes on around them
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They leave the one they love the way they found them
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A normal person must
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Dismiss you with disgust
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And weep for those who trusted you
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The Russian
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Nothing you have said
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Is revelation
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Take my blues as read
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My consolation -
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Finding out that I'm my one true obligation
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(Crowd cheer)
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Svetlana and the crowd
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Listen to them shout
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They saw you do it
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In their minds no doubt
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That you've been through it
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Suffered for your art
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But in the end a winner
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Who could not be stirred
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Such dedication
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We have never heard
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Such an ovation
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Skill and guts a model
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For the young beginner
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They're completely enchanted
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But they don't take your qualities for granted
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It isn't very often
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That the critics soften
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Nonetheless you've won their hearts
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How can we begin to
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Appreciate the work that you've put into
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Your calling through the years
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The blood, the sweat, the tears
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The late, late nights, the early starts
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There they go again!
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Your deeds enflame them
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Drive them wild, but then
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Who wants to tame them
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If they want a part of you
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Who'd really blame them?
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(Crowd cheer louder still)
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The Russian
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And so you're letting me know -
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Svetlana
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For you're the only one who's never suffered anything at all
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The Russian
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How you've hated my success -
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Svetlana
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Well I won't crawl -
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And you can slink back to your pawns
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And to your tarts
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The Russian
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And every poisoned word shows that you never understood
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Svetlana
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Liar!
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The Russian
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Never!
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Both
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Nothing you have said
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Is revelation
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Take my blues as read
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My consolation -
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Svetlana
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Finding out that I'm my only obligation
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The Russian
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Is there no one in my life
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Who will not claim
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The right to steal
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My work, my name
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My success, my fame
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And my freedom
The Reality of Pawn Promotion | A White ...
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