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The Soviet Machine is a track by Bradley Dean, taken from the album “CHESS the Musical (2025 Broadway Cast Recording)”, released April 10, 2026 on Ghostlight Records/Rhino. It runs 3:38. Use the Play button above when a verified stream is available, or choose a listening service from the other options.
Within the album sequence, this recording sits alongside Overture, Difficult and Dangerous Times, Where I Want to Be. Open the album page to compare the full running order and the listening options available for each song.
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Lyrics
Find another songJust in case you feel a trace of doubt or even nervous tension
Let me draw the latest score to your attention
Not the score the witless core of commentators are debating
Come, admit, who gives a shit for Elo rating?
No, I prefer, and I'm sure you concur
To see who's ahead psychologically, for example
We have on tap an inscrutable chap
Whose thoughts never stray from the state of the play
It's so difficult to concentrate if
You have left your native country for a woman who has plans of her own
It's not easy for a chap to excel
Feeling guilty as hell, having left his wife to face the music alone
But, even worse, imagine if his ladies met
Well, then I bet
The atmosphere 'round here would be a little strained
As he explained
How could he do what he's done to those two
Most wonderful girls, yes, I love you both
Most amusing
Starting them scratch, they'll torpedo his match
His horsepower dead on the board and in bed
Bit by bit the pieces fit, the Soviet machine advances
Not one move that won't improve our nation's chances
We predict a stunning victory both on the board and off it
This will show the traitor, no one rats with profit
Oh, we're gonna smash that bastard
Make him wanna change his name
Take him to the cleaners and devastate him
Wipe him out, humiliate him
We don't want the whole world saying
"They can't even win a game"
We have never reckoned on coming second
There's no use in losing
We can feel the flame of triumph burning
Bit by bit the pieces fit
Our people's pride returning
Soviet machine advances
Not one move that won't improve our nation's chances
No, I prefer, and I'm sure you concur
To see who's ahead psychologically, for example
We have on tap an inscrutable chap
Whose thoughts never stray from the state of the play
Bit by bit the pieces fit, the Soviet machine advances
Not one move that won't improve our nation's chances
We predict a stunning victory both on the board and off it
This will show the traitor no one rats with profit
Ah, la-la-la
Additional programming : Beto González/Lexi Vollero/PJ Ju
Lyrics supplied by lyrics.ovh.
More from CHESS the Musical (2025 Broadway Cast Recording)
- 01 Overture 2:54
- 02 Difficult and Dangerous Times 3:04
- 03 Where I Want to Be 3:32
- 04 Pity the Child #1 0:27
- 05 Merano 2:32
- 06 What a Scene/What a Joy 1:28
- 07 Press Conference 2:07
- 08 The Arbiter 3:10
- 09 Chess Match #1 2:05
- 10 Quartet (A Model of Decorum and Tranquility) 2:28
- 11 1956, Budapest is Rising 1:49
- 12 Nobody's Side 3:28