[ti:Before The Performance]
[ar:Andrew Lloyd Webber]
[al:Love Never Dies]
[00:00.67]Ooh
[00:14.86]Gustave, could you hand me those earrings
[00:17.48]The diamond ones on the left?
[00:21.30]There, how do I look?
[00:24.61]You look so beautiful
[00:29.86]So very beautiful
[00:35.54]Like a queen in a book
[00:41.55]You too are beautiful
[00:46.05]So very beautiful
[00:50.55]Once this performance is through
[00:57.48]We'll spend some time just us two
[01:03.48]Won't that be fun?
[01:06.98]
[01:08.74]Father, doesn't mother look lovely tonight?
[01:12.48]Indeed she does
[01:14.29]As lovely as she looked the very first time
[01:16.42]I came to her dressing room door
[01:18.42]And look at you, Raoul
[01:20.17]Huh?
[01:20.86]You look just like that handsome boy in the opera box
[01:24.73]The one who'd always toss me a single red rose
[01:28.86]Please, Gustave, if you don't mind
[01:31.42]Would you wait outside a while?
[01:34.80]May I go exploring, by myself?
[01:37.24]Yes, but stay backstage, my dear
[01:40.67]When I'm finished, meet me here
[01:43.30]I will
[01:45.79]
[01:51.54]Since our wedding day, things have gone astray
[01:56.68]Raoul
[01:57.11]I'm not proud of the way that I've acted
[02:00.74]We've both been
[02:01.61]The demands I've made, all the hopes mislaid
[02:05.42]I'm aware of the price they've exacted
[02:09.92]Though I've no right to ask you to
[02:13.55]There's one thing more I'd have you do
[02:16.99]If you love me as I love you
[02:25.48]Anything, darling
[02:27.29]Don't sing the song, dear
[02:29.61]What?
[02:30.36]But, Raoul
[02:31.11]You have to know
[02:32.17]Something's terribly wrong, dear
[02:34.92]But I have to do this
[02:37.29]It's what we agreed to
[02:41.42]That hell-spawn demon
[02:44.74]He's had us playing his game all along, dear
[02:48.24]Let me just get through this
[02:50.48]Listen, please, I need to
[02:54.30]You need so much, it's true
[03:00.30]And I've denied you
[03:05.86]You need the man you knew
[03:10.61]Back here beside you
[03:15.42]You'll have him back, I vow
[03:20.18]Just ask it of me
[03:24.36]But we must leave here now
[03:28.36]If you still love me
[03:34.36]
[03:35.92]Do you mean it, Raoul, truly?
[03:39.73]I've booked a passage for three
[03:40.85]To Cherbourg on the Atlantic Queen, it leaves in an hour
[03:43.24]We'll have just enough time, I beg you
[03:46.19]Let's be on it for both our sakes
[03:48.88]And the child's
[03:52.44]Leave this place behind
[04:03.82]
[05:06.82]He knows his love is not enough
[05:13.94]He knows he isn't what you need
[05:21.37]He knows you're made of finer stuff
[05:28.00]I think on that we're all agreed
[05:34.57]It's time to leave him in the dust
[05:40.82]It's time to be who you should be
[05:48.38]It's time to do now as you must
[05:54.76]And set the music in you free
[06:03.69]
[06:06.00]In moments, mere moments
[06:11.31]Drums will roll
[06:14.87]
[06:16.63]There you'll stand just like before
[06:25.38]The crowd will hush
[06:30.94]And then in one sweet rush
[06:38.00]I will hear you sing once more
[06:47.20]And music, our music
[06:51.57]Will swell and then unwind
[06:56.01]Like two strands of melody at last entwined
[07:06.34]
[07:07.02]Fulfill us, complete us
[07:12.02]Make us whole
[07:17.26]Seal our bond forever more
[07:26.26]Tonight, for me
[07:30.27]Embrace your destiny
[07:37.51]Let me here you sing once more
[07:53.82]
[07:57.45]Miss Daa, it's time
[08:02.70]Twisted every way
[08:05.76]What answer can I give?
[08:12.01]
[08:33.20]I know I can't refuse
[08:36.33]And yet I wish I could
[08:39.46]Oh, God
[08:42.33]
[08:52.70]Christine, Christine
[08:56.96]Don't think that I don't care
[09:01.58]But every hope and every prayer
[09:05.83]Rests on you now
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