Backstage (scene 2) Lyrics

(The PHANTOM'S score lies open on the desk. ANDRE is impatiently flicking through it)ANDRELudicrous!Have you seen the score?FIRMIN (entering)Simply ludicrous!ANDREIt's the final st...Read Full Lyrics

(REYER supervises the learning of the new piece from the piano. Present are PIANGI, CHRISTINE, CARLOTTA, GlRY and CHORUS)CHORUSHide our sword now wounded knight!Your vainglorious g...Read Full Lyrics

(A mausoleum with hanging moss. In the centre a pyramid of skulls in front of a cross.)CHRISTINEYou were oncemy one companion . . .you were allthat mattered . . .You were oncea fri...Read Full Lyrics

THE OPERA HOUSE ON THE NIGHT OF THE PREMIERE OF "DON JUAN TRIUMPHANT''(The orchestra is tuning. A whistle sounds the CHIEF FIRE OFFICER is reviewing two FIRE MARSHALLS in tin helme...Read Full Lyrics

(Meanwhile, down below, we see the PHANTOM and CHRISTINE in the boat, crossing the underground lake)PHANTOM (furiously propelling the boat onwards)Down once moreto the dungeonof my...Read Full Lyrics

(The dummy of CHRlSTlNE sits crumpled on a large throne. The PHANTOM drags CHRISTINE roughly out of the boat. She frees herself and backs away as he stares blackly out front. Bravi...Read Full Lyrics

There's a bright, golden haze on the meadow There's a bright, golden haze on the meadow. The corn is as high as an elephant's eye And it looks like it's climbing clear up to the sk...Read Full Lyrics

When I take you out, tonight, with me,Honey, here's the way it's goin' to be:You will set behind a team of snow white horses,In the slickest gig you ever see!Chicks and ducks and g...Read Full Lyrics

I got to Kansas City on a Frid'yBy Sattidy I larned a thing or twoFor up to then I didn't have an idyOf whut the modren world was comin' to!I counted twenty gas buggies goin' by th...Read Full Lyrics

It ain't so much a question of not knowin' hut to do I knowed what's right an' wrong since I've been teen. I heared a lot of stories an' I reckon they're true About how girls are p...Read Full Lyrics