Video Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson : I Know Him So Well (Rare) HQ

Wonderful song from the musical Chess performed on German TV

Swedish version here with Benny Andersson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AzatbrMP60

It was written by ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus & Benny Andersson along with Tim Rice.
"I Know Him So Well" is a song from the concept album and subsequent musical Chess. In this duet, two women -- Svetlana, the Russian chess champion's estranged wife, and Florence, his mistress -- express their bittersweet feelings for him and at seeing their relationships fall apart.

The duet was number one in the UK for four weeks in 1985 when released as a single by Elaine Paige (as Florence) and Barbara Dickson (as Svetlana), who laid down their vocals separately and never met during the recording of the song, only for the video and subsequent performances on Top of the Pops and the European tours.] This recording remains in the Guinness Book of Records as the biggest selling UK Chart single ever by a female duo. Paige also appeared in the original London stage production of Chess.- wikipedia

I KNOW HIM SO WELL
(Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Tim Rice)

Duet with Elaine Paige - from the Musical 'Chess'

Nothing is so good it lasts eternally

Perfect situations must go wrong

But this has never yet prevented me

Wanting far too much for far too long

Looking back I could have played it differently

Won a few more moments, who can tell

But it took time to understand the man

Now at least I know I know him well

Wasn't it good,

Oh so good

Wasn't he fine

Oh so fine

Isn't it madness

He can't be mine

But in the end he needs a little bit more than me

More security

He needs his fantasy and freedom

I know him so well

No one in your life is with you constantly

No one is completely on your side

And though I move my world to be with him

Still the gap between us is too wide

Looking back I could have played it differently

(Looking back I could have played things some other way)

Learned about the man before I fell

(I was just a little careless maybe)

But I was ever so much younger then

(Much younger then)

Now at least I know him well

Now at least I know I know him well

Wasn't it good

Oh so good

Wasn't he fine

Oh so fine

Isn't it madness

He won't be mine

Didn't I know how it would go

If I knew from the start

Why am I falling apart

Wasn't it good, wasn't he fine

Isn't it madness

He won't be mine

But in the end he needs a little bit more than me

More security

He needs his fantasy and freedom

I know him so well

It took time to understand