Checkmate Lyrics

The courts have assembled

Over the board, the pieces placed

Rank and file

First confrontation

Innocence beguiled, to draw out

The opposing side

The bad bishop sends the knight

Then many more children

To the fight

Initial stratagem complete

Now we wait to see

The enemy

The complacent king, the fatted crown

Watches safely from his tower

His subjects scatter round

The ostentatious queen, feints attack

Poised to strike, like a deadly viper

For the final bite

A token to choose

A move aside

This diametric machination

The perfect guise

Identical in purpose

Both will try

Destroy the opposition

Win the ultimate prize

Tactics, tempo, time control, time control

Position, promotion, protection, protection

Material, movement, middlegame, middlegame

Double attack, defense, development, development

The final blunder is assigned

And now the conqueror's mouth waters with pride

The crooked rook corners the crown

Space is lost and the wicked walk

On new lands broken down

The final moment draws near

The tyrant fights, now his final sight

Blood, bones, fertilizing fields