Pity The Child (From Chess)-The New Musical Cast

[ti:Pity The Child] [ar:The New Musical Cast] [al:Chess - The Musical] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.79]When I was nine I learned survival [00:03.82]Taught myself not to care [00:08.18]I was my single good companion [00:11.26]Taking my comfort there [00:15.56]Up in my room I planned my conquests [00:19.49]On my own -- never asked for a helping hand [00:24.55]No one would understand [00:27.54] [00:30.37]I never asked the pair who fought below [00:36.14]Just in case they said no [00:44.28]Pity the child who has ambition [00:47.92]Knows what he wants to do [00:51.60]Knows that he'll never fit the system [00:55.03]Others expect him to [00:58.97]Pity the child who knew his parents [01:02.84]Saw their faults [01:04.01]Saw their love die before his eyes [01:07.18] [01:08.34]Pity the child that wise [01:13.75]He never asked "Did I cause your distress " [01:19.52]Just in case they said yes [01:24.81]When I was twelve my father moved out [01:31.22]Left with a whimper -- not with a shout [01:36.67] [01:37.63]I didn't miss him -- he made it perfectly clear [01:44.11]I was a fool and probably queer [01:50.61]Fool that I was I thought this would bring [01:57.12]Those he had left closer together [02:04.45]She made her move the moment he crawled away [02:09.19]I was the last the woman told [02:14.65]She never let her bed get cold [02:19.16]Someone moved in -- I shut my door [02:23.67]Someone to treat her just the same way as before [02:33.97]I took the road of least resistance [02:37.50]I had my game to play [02:41.30]I had the skill and more -- the hunger [02:45.01]Easy to get away [02:48.79]Pity the child with no such weapons [02:52.40]No defense no escape from the ties that bind [02:57.98]Always a step behind [03:03.48]I never called to tell her all I'd done [03:08.43]I was only her son [03:38.84]Pity the child but not forever [03:42.35]Not if he stays that way [03:46.04]He can get all he ever wanted [03:49.77]If he's prepared to pay [03:53.43]Pity instead the careless mother [03:57.10]What she missed [03:58.30]What she lost when she let me go [04:01.68]And I wonder does she know [04:08.11]I wouldn't call -- a crazy thing to do [04:14.05]Just in case she said who