Love Never Dies Page #2

The vicomtesse has been engaged

by the well-known impresario,

Mr. Oscar Hammerstein,

to open his new Manhattan Opera House.

How'd he lure the great Christine

Daae over here anyway?

It's the money, right?

All that American moolah!

My wife is an artist.

Oh, yeah, and her art is payin'

off your gambling debts,

is what they're sayin' in France.

Is it true you left your entire fortune

on a roulette table in Monte Carlo?

You insolent jackals!

How dare you!

Hey, kid, how does it feel

to have a famous mother?

Your first time to America?

It's two weeks till the Opera House opens.

What are you gonna do?

You gonna go see the Statue of Liberty?

Gonna ride the new subway?

You gonna go to the baseball?

I want to go to Coney Island.

And learn how to swim.

(ALL LAUGHING)

(THUNDER RUMBLES)

Mother, look!

Right over there!

Across the square!

That carriage!

Look at that! No horses!

That's the darnedest thing I've ever seen.

How does it work?

Honored friends

welcome to America!

Take a seat! Rest your feet!

Honored friends

Mr. Hammerstein's expecting you

Climb aboard, fledgling lord

Gustave!

Where is Hammerstein?

We were assured he'd be

here to greet us in person!

Here my dreams can wander free

Tell me what we're going to see!

This way, prima donna!

We three will escort you!

Please, Monsieur

Mr. Hammerstein

sent us to transport you

I give up.

Take us to Hammerstein!

Mysteries and melodies

play inside my mind

Fairytales and fantasies

silently unwind

Ask no questions, have no fear

Anything can happen here

(THUNDER RUMBLES)

I am your Angel of Music

Come to me, Angel of Music

What a dreadful town!

What a vulgar place!

What an awful mistake to have come here!

To be on display in that shameless way

for the crude, common

lower-class scum here

How could he dare to treat us so?

Father, dear, come play with me

Come and see this toy I've got

What a snub, at most

from our so-called host

Did he think sending freaks would be funny?

Could the fool have thought

that our pride was bought

by his filthy American money?

What a farce! What an

outright slap in the face

It's an utter disgrace

I've got a mind to pack and go

Never you mind the debts we owe

Who would believe we've sunk this low?

Father, please, come play with me

Gustave, enough!

The answer's no!

(PLAYING SOFT TUNE)

Must you play now?

I think it's beautiful.

RAOUL:
What is it, anyway?

I don't know, it was

just here on the piano.

Well, it hurts my head.

Please, let's not fight, dear

I'm sure Mr. Hammerstein

never intended a slight, dear

How dare he patronize us?

We should never have accepted

We need the money, that's all

That's why things haven't been right, dear

Why doesn't it surprise me

that I get the blame here?

Let's leave tonight, dear

if that would serve to

ease your troubled mind

Leave the hurt behind

Father, dear, come over here

and look at what they gave to me

Wind it up and, Father, see

Look, it plays a melody

Raoul.

(KNOCKING)

What's this?

What is it?

It's from Hammerstein.

He wants to meet me in

the hotel bar. Alone.

Alone?

Well, he may lack courtesy,

but he does show a certain savoir faire

in choosing a business rendezvous.

Raoul, please.

Please what?

Nothing.

Father never plays with me

Doesn't he love me?

Oh, darling.

Love's a curious thing

It often comes disguised

Look at love the wrong way

it goes unrecognized

So look with your heart

and not with your eyes

The heart understands

The heart never lies

Believe what it feels

and trust what it shows

Look with your heart

The heart always knows

Love is not always beautiful

not at the start

So open your arms

and close your eyes tight

Look with your heart

and when it finds love

your heart will be right

Learn from someone who knows

Make sure you don't forget

Love you misunderstand

is love that you'll regret

Look with your heart

and not with your eyes

The heart can't be fooled

The heart is too wise

Forget what you think

Ignore what you hear

Look with your heart, it always sees clear

Love is not always beautiful (LAUGHING)

not at the start

But open your arms

and close your eyes tight

Look with your heart

and when it finds love

your heart will be right

Time for bed now, Gustave.

I'll be in in a minute.

(GASPING)

So it was all an empty lie?

One final lie to fool us all?

To make your death our story's end?

To put your life beyond recall?

How dare you come and claim me now

invade my life, ensnare my voice?

If you could know the pain I've known

then you would know I had no choice

My Christine

Your Christine

I was yours one brief night long ago

Long ago

with a man that I no longer know

Ah, Christine!

You came and found where I hid

Don't you deny that you did

that long ago night!

Once, there was a night

beneath a moonless sky

too dark to see a thing

too dark to even try

I stole to your side

tormented by my choice

I couldn't see your face

yet trembled at your voice

and I touched you

And I felt you

And I heard those ravishing refrains!

The music of your pulse

The singing in your veins!

And I held you

And I touched you

And embraced you

And I felt you

And with every breath and every sigh!

I felt no longer scared

I felt no longer shy

BOTH:
At last,

our feelings bared

beneath the moonless sky

And blind in the dark

as soul gazed into soul

I looked into your heart

and saw you pure and whole

Cloaked under the night

with nothing to suppress

a woman and a man

no more and yet no less

And I kissed you

And caressed you

And the world around us fell away

We said things in the dark

we never dared to say

And I caught you

And I kissed you

And I took you And I begged you

With a need too urgent to deny

And nothing mattered then

except for you and I

Again and then again

beneath the moonless sky

And when it was done

before the sun could rise

ashamed of what I was

afraid to see your eyes

I stood while you slept

and whispered a goodbye

And slipped into the dark

beneath the moonless sky

And I loved you!

Yes, I loved you!

I'd have followed anywhere you led

I woke to swear my love

and found you gone instead

And I loved you!

I loved you!

And I left you!

How I loved you!

And I had to, both of us knew why

We both knew why

And yet I won't regret

from now until I die

the night I can't forget

beneath a moonless sky

And now?

How can you talk of now?

For us...

There is no now.

Once upon another time

our story had only begun

You chose to turn the page

and I made choices, too

Once upon that other time

we did what we thought must be done

And now, we have no choice

We do what we must do

We love, we live

we give what we can give

and take

what little we deserve

Once upon another time

I knew how our story would end

and maybe I was wrong

but now the moment's gone

Were it still that other time

I'd make time itself somehow bend!

But now I'm not that strong

and time keeps moving on

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