Tim Rice - How Many Women lyrics

[FLORENCE] How many women would drive themselves crazy By arguing over a game of chess? Not very many--the way things are going There'll soon be one less! [FREDDIE] Don't believe you sweetie pie-- [FLORENCE] Listen, Freddie--I too had ambitions How did I get waylaid? How can such a flower, A sensitive soul, a delicate child Wind up as a nursemaid? Respectably set for the glittering prizes Instead of which I landed you-- [FREDDIE] You'll get your prizes! I'm ninety percent of the way to the top of the heap! [FLORENCE] Thanks--ten percent--you got me cheap! [FREDDIE] (spoken) No, no, Florence--I meant we are ninety percent of the way-- [FLORENCE] How many women--articulate women, with Something to shout about--spend their time Playing a game in which silence is golden and speaking a crime? [FREDDIE] Maybe if he moved his king... [FLORENCE] All of my struggles for qualifications--my Nights with Goethe and Proust Recklessly abandoned For you! Who thinks Chekhov is King to G3 And Joyce, my college roommate! But then when I show you a move you can't fathom I have to admit it feels great-- [FREDDIE] Great news for chess fans! Yeah--that's how he did it-- Yeah, that's how the communist plays! [FLORENCE] Maybe I deserve a raise.