Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Songs About Chess! #2

Here are a couple more popular songs that mention chess.

The first is Bob Dylan's "Love Minus Zero/No Limit", which makes a passing allusion to chess pieces in this verse:


"The cloak and dagger dangles

Madams light the candles
In ceremonies of the horsemen
Even the pawn must hold a grudge
Statues made of matchsticks
Crumble into one another
My love winks, she does not bother
She knows too much to argue or to judge"




It's a beautiful song and a beautiful lyric (I love the last two lines of that verse), from his fantastic 1965 LP "Bringing It All Back Home".
The next song is a very bizarre They Might Be Giants track from their self-titled 1986 debut. I think the song speaks for itself...



Thanks for reading! :)
Dan

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