Chess in Concert, Kerry Ellis, Josh Groban, Idina Menzel - Endgame #3 / Chess Game #3 lyrics

They all think they see a man
Who doesn't know which move to make
Which way to go whose private life
Caused his decline wrecked his grand design

Some are vicious some are fools
And others blind to see in me
One of their kind anyone can be
A husband, lover sooner them than me
When they discover their domestic bliss is
Shelter for their failing
Nothing could be worse than self-denial
Having to reverse this endless trial
Of a partner's rather sad demands prevailing

As you watch yourself caring
About a minor sporting triumph
Sharing your win with esoterics
Paranoids, hysterics you don't pay attention
To what goes on around them
They leave the ones they love
The way they found them a normal person must
Dismiss you with disgust
And weep for those who trusted you

Nothing you have said is revelation
Take my blues as red my consolation's
Finding out at last my one true obligation

Since you seem to have shut out
The world at large
Then maybe I should cut out
Your tiny inessential
World - inconsequential
In the kind of game you're playing
How do you do it?
I tried to be that cynical but blew it
I only changed your life
You left your home, your wife
I'm not surprised I slipped your mind

Nothing you have said is revelation
Take my blues as red my consolation
Finding out at last my one true obligation

Listen to them shout they saw you do it
In their minds, no doubt
That you've been through it
Suffered for your art
But in the end a winner we have never heard
Such an ovation who could not be stirred?
Such dedication skill and guts
A model for the young beginner

They're completely enchanted
But they don't take your
Qualities for granted it isn't very often
That the critics soften
Nonetheless you've won their hearts
How can we begin to
Appreciate the work that you've put into
Your calling through the years
The blood, and sweat and tears
The late, late nights, the early starts?

There they go again! Your deeds inflame them
Drive them wild, but then
Who wants to tame them?
If they want a part of you
Who'd really blame them?

And so you're letting me know -

You're the only one who's never suffered
Anything at all!

How you've hated my success!

Well, I won't crawl and you can slink back
To your pawns and to your tarts

And every poison word
Shows that you never understood!

Never! Never!
Never! Never!
Liar! Liar!
Liar! Liar!
Check! Check!
Check! Check!

Nothing you have said is revelation
Take my blues as red my consolation
Finding out that i'm my only obligation

Is there no one in my life
Who will not claim my right to steal
My work, my name my success, my fame
And my freedom?

Anatoly Sergievesky is the winner
And remains world champion

So, you've done it you're still the champion

I had to win to be free

Free for what?

Free to help your father - if
I go back free to play
Chess - it's the only thing
I can stay true to