It seems so beautiful!
So strange yet beautiful!
Everything's just as you say!
And he's so beautiful
Perhaps too beautiful
What I suspect cannot be
And yet somehow we both see
the very same way!
Is there music in your head?
Have you followed where it led
and been graced with a taste of the beauty underneath?
Does it fill your every sense?
Is it terribly intense?
Tell me you need it, too
need the beauty underneath!
When it lifts its voice and sings
don't you feel amazing things?
Things you know you can't confess?
Things you thirst for nonetheless?
It's all so beautiful!
PHANTOM: Can it be?
Almost too beautiful!
Do you see what I see?
Heavenly!
To him, it's beautiful!
My world is beautiful!
How can this be what it seems?
All of my most secret dreams
somehow set free!
You can feel it?
Yes!
Come closer
Yes!
You've no fear of the beauty underneath?
You can face it?
Yes!
You can take it?
Yes!
You see through to the beauty underneath?
To the splendor?
And the splendor!
And the glory? Glory!
To the truth of the beauty underneath?
The beauty underneath!
You'll accept it!
GUSTAVE: Yes!
PHANTOM: You'll embrace it!
GUSTAVE: Yes!
Let me show you the beauty underneath!
To the splendor! Splendor!
And the glory! And the glory!
To the truth of the beauty underneath!
The beauty underneath!
You'll accept it!
Yes!
You'll embrace it!
Yes!
Let me show you the beauty under...
(GUSTAVE SCREAMS)
MEG: Gustave!
CHRISTINE: Gustave! Gustave!
Gustave. It's all right! It's me!
It's horrible, horrible!
Shh. Don't be frightened.
PHANTOM: How could you think I wouldn't guess?
How could you think I wouldn't know?
Do you have something to confess?
I want the truth, right now, if so!
Listen, darling, I want you to go with Miss Giry
back to the hotel.
All right?
I have to talk to Mr. Y alone.
Meg, do you mind?
Please? Please.
Once upon another time
you loved me
yet left me alone
But that's not all you did
You left me with a son
Ever since that other time
I've wished you could somehow have known
I kept the secret hid
the secret my marriage forbid
What else could I have done?
Just love
A son!
Just live
My son!
Just give what I could give
and take
what little I deserve
Forgive me.
He sees me and shuns me
as you did once
Take him now, take him and go!
Go now, be free!
But swear one thing to me
He will never, ever know!
I swear it
Believe me
You know you have my word
And I swear this music
won't remain unheard
This music
your music will live again!
One last time
just as I swore!
BOTH: And soul to soul
we will once more be whole
when I hear you sing
once more
From out of ugliness, such light!
From out of darkness, such a flame!
In him my wrongness is made right
and yet he loathes me, just the same!
So let him shun me in disgust!
Let him flee this cursed face!
If I must hide from him, I must
yet he shall be
my saving grace!
For Christine, my Christine
if it's true, he's my reason to live!
Ah, Christine
then our son shall have all I can give!
Ah, Christine!
All I create on this Earth
all that I'll never be worth
all shall be his!
All shall be his?
Ten long years, and he casts us aside!
Ten whole years, this is how we're repaid!
Ten dark years of toil and tears
and now what we've worked for
will go to that child!
All our hopes
were at last in our grasp!
All the dreams and the plans that we laid!
Everything is vanishing
and we get discarded, rejected, reviled!
All of the bonds in between us, now torn!
All of the love that we gave him foresworn!
All would be ours
if that bastard had never been born!
One more.
Ah, buddy, don't you think you had enough?
It's practically morning already.
One more, I said!
All right. All right.
My shift is over anyway, so let's settle the bill, okay?
Jeez, you're in a bad way, ain't ya?
Worse than most that wind up here.
Here's the morning shift. Maybe he'll know what to do with you.
(SCOFFS)
Yes.
Yes, what to do with me. That's the question, isn't it?
That's always been the question, ever since the beginning.
She looks for sympathy
I give her sorrow
She asks for honesty
I've none to borrow
She needs my tender kiss
She begs it of me
I give her ugliness
Why does she love me?
She yearns for higher things
Things I can't give her
The rush that music brings
I can't deliver
And even when she sings
And soars above me
I try to clip her wings
Why does she love me?
One more drink, sir
That's what I need, don't you think, sir?
Leave the hurt behind...
Did you hear me? Another drink!
She wants the man I was
Husband and father
At least, she thinks she does
She needn't bother
Beneath this mask I wear
There's nothing of me
Just horror, shame, despair
Why does she love me?
How 'bout you, sir?
Tell me, what am I to do, sir?
Leave the hurt behind
Morning, Bernie Coffee, please
Hurry up before I freeze
I'll just take it black
Vicomte. Fancy meeting you here.
Miss Giry.
Drowning your sorrows, are you?
On the contrary, I'm celebrating a reunion with old friends.
Friends I had long thought dead and buried.
And you? Me?
I've been for a swim.
This town is coarse and cold and mean
It's hard to keep your conscience clean
Faceless in the crowd
Anything's allowed
And so I come at dawn each day
Come to wash it all away
Sink into the sea
Blue and cool and kind
Let it set me free
Let the past unwind
Leave the hurt behind
Miss Giry?
What do you think will happen, Vicomte?
At the concert. Have you thought?
When he hears her sing again? When she sings...
Miss Giry, I wish I knew.
But I'm afraid her music has always been somewhat of a mystery to me.
But there's more to this than the music, monsieur.
Believe me. I saw it.
There's something... I don't know.
Just take her away. Now.
For all our sakes.
Sail across the sea
Put us out of mind
Close your eyes and flee
Let yourself stay blind
What do you mean? What are you talking about?
Trust me, monsieur. Don't let her sing.
Once he gets into her soul, there's nothing she won't do for him.
Leave this place behind
Miss Giry! Miss Giry!
He's not Mephistopheles, you know?
When it comes down to it, he's just another circus freak.
I'm not afraid of him.
No. It can't be!
Not afraid of me, you say?
Stay back! Or I'll kill you, I promise you.
Insolent boy.
You think you own more of her soul than I do?
She is my wife!
Your music may speak to her,
but her heart will always follow me.
You think so? You really think so?
Follow you? With all your charms?
Look at you, deep in debt
Stinking drunk, pitiful
Shall we two make a bet?
Devil take the hindmost?
Look at you, foul as sin
Hideous, horrible
Call the stakes, deal me in
Devil take the hindmost
Our Christine shall choose tonight Let her choose
Is she yours or mine? Draw the line
If she sings, you lose tonight I won't lose
You leave from here? Fine
Disappear? Fine
And if she won't? If I win?
All your debts wiped away
Very well, let's begin
BOTH: Devil take the hindmost
Our old game You think you have the odds
It's been changed You think you're in control
Every throw... You think you've fixed the dice
...riskier Well, I will gladly roll
All the rules... I'll bet against the house
...rearranged I'll even double down
Fate has redesigned most Fortune's on my side
Cut the deck I won her long ago
Let us play I won her from you then
You and I I wager even now
Once again I'll win her back again
In the end And when the game is done
Either way
BOTH: Devil take the hindmost
Now Christine shall choose at last
Is she yours or mine?
We've a son Our bond's secure
Are you sure? What?
Are you so sure? What do you mean?
Such a child Strange to see
Talented, musical
Is he more you or me?
Which one do you find most?
You lie!
Yet you doubt No woman could
Doubt your wife Or ever would
Doubt your son Love such a man
Everything You're insane
Now we play... So now I play...
...for your life ... for my life
BOTH: Devil take the hindmost
Deal the cards I call your bluff
Let them fall The game is on
Choose your hand And we will see...
Try your best ... who wins out
He who wins... Once and for all...
BOTH: Wins it all
Devil take the hindmost
(GROANS)
She walks, you leave together
Pockets full, debts paid
She sings...
You leave alone
Devil take the hindmost
Dear God, what have I done?
I could lose her forever. My Christine!
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
Ladies, gents
You, good sir
And you, my friend
ALL: Everyone
Time for fun
Starting soon upon our stage
The performance of the age
Wonders and astonishments for your delectation
Phantoms and automatons for your fascination
Plus a finale to sweep you away
BOTH: Brought from Paree to perform just one day
The beautiful, breathtaking Christine Daae
But first, for those of you whose taste
is a little more earth-bound...
It's Phantasma's famous Ooh-La-La Girl!
The incomparable...
ALL: Meg Giry!
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
I took a little trip to Coney Island
To get away from all the city sprawl
I couldn't bear to choose Which bathing suit to use
So goodness me, I guess I brought 'em all
But when at last I got to Coney Island
And found myself a spot upon the sand
I noticed something strange
Ooh!
There was no place to change
And so I asked my friends to lend a hand
Girls?
(VOCALIZING)
GIRLS: Bathing beauty
Take a look at you
Bathing beauty on the beach
Bathing beauty, say hello
What a cutie! What a peach!
Bathing beauty, watch her go
Posing under her parasol
She is what ya call a real spectacle
Prim and proper with class and poise
But she's got the boys apoplectical
Bathing beauty on the beach
See her practically glow
Wearing a smile and giving Coney Island
A bathing beaut of a show
Bathing beauty on the beach
Checks.
MEN: What a cutie! What a peach!
Stripes.
ALL: Bathing beauty
Bathing beauty
Dots?
GIRLS: Dots?
Dots? Dots?
MEN: Dots? Dots?
ALL: Dots!
Bathing beauty on the beach
See her practically glow
Taking the sun in
Till all the boys go running
ALL: Rolling in clover
And getting tan all over
ALL: Wearing a smile
And giving Coney Island
ALL: A bathing beaut
Of a show
Bathing beauty, say...
Hello!
Whoo!
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Meg Giry, the Ooh-La-La Girl!
In just a few moments, Christine Daae,
the world's most celebrated songbird,
will be making her American debut.
Mother, did you watch? Everything is solved
Mother, can you tell? The new routine it went so well
I was worried just a touch
That it might've been too much
Just a bit Well, rather free
But just listen to that crowd
Why, they've never been so loud Screaming only for me
Meg...
And the master must have heard Every note and every word
Mother, tell me, did he see?
Meg, stop it.
Even he will now concede I'm the only one he'll need
Meg, sweet fool You did all that you could
Charming, bright And yet still not enough
What do you mean?
How you danced! They're all entranced
Yes, all but the one whose entrancement we sought
He wasn't even there?
Where, poor girl, do you think that he was?
Yes, that's right, in with her all along
With Christine?
Dreaming of their son, their love
Too smitten to spare you one moment of thought
Their son?
All that you gave him has all been a waste
No, you're wrong!
All that you've done It has all been erased
Don't say that!
Now he has them
As for us We have both been replaced
No! No!
Gustave, could you hand me those earrings? The sapphires on the left.
There!
How do I look?
You look so beautiful
So very beautiful
Like a queen in a book
You, too, are beautiful
So very beautiful
Once this performance is through
We'll spend some time, just us two
Won't that be fun?
Father! Doesn't Mother look lovely tonight?
Indeed she does.
As lovely as she looked the very first time
I came to her dressing-room door.
And look at you, Raoul.
You look just like that handsome boy in the opera-box,
the one who would always toss me a single red rose.
Please, Gustave If you don't mind
Would you wait outside a while?
But when's Mother going to sing? We don't want to miss it.
Go and wait backstage, my dear
Soon Papa will fetch you there
You can both watch from the wings.
Since our wedding day
Things have gone astray
Raoul...
I'm not proud of the way that I've acted
We've both been...
The demands I've made All our hopes mislaid
I'm aware of the price they've exacted
Though I've no right to ask you to
There's one thing more I'd have you do
If you love me as I love you
Anything, darling.
Don't sing the song, dear
What? But...
You have to know something's terribly wrong, dear
But I have to do this It's what we agreed to
That hell-spawned demon
He's had us playing his game all along, dear
Let me just get through this Listen, please I need to
You need so much, it's true
And I've denied you
You need the man you knew
Back here beside you
You'll have him back, I vow
Just ask it of me
But we must leave here now
If you still love me
But, darling, I'm due on stage in 10 minutes.
How can I possibly... I beg you please. Please.
I have a passage for three to Cherbourg on the Atlantic Queen.
It leaves tonight. Let's be on it, for both our sakes.
And for Gustave.
Leave this place behind
Go and find Gustave.
Tell the stage manager not to disturb me. I need some time.
You know his love is not enough
You know it isn't what you need
You know you're made of finer stuff
I think on that we're all agreed
It's time to leave him in the dust
It's time to be who you should be
It's time to do now as you must
And set the music in you free
In moments
Mere moments
Drums will roll
There you'll stand Just like before
The crowd will hush
And then in one sweet rush
I will hear you sing once more
And music, our music
Will swell and then unwind
Like two strands of melody
At last entwined
Fulfill us
Complete us
Make us whole
Seal our bond forevermore
Tonight, for me
Embrace your destiny
Let me hear you sing
Once more
STAGE MANAGER: Five minutes, Miss Daae.
Twisted every way What answer can I give?
I know I can't refuse And yet I wish I could
Oh, God
RAOUL: Christine! Christine!
Don't think that I don't care
PHANTOM: But every hope and every prayer
Rests on you now
(VOCALIZING)
Ready on the rail?
STAGE HAND 1: Ready on the rail.
(CONTINUES VOCALIZING)
Will she sing? Will she flee?
What is she thinking now?
Is it him? Is it me?
Devil take the hindmost
STAGE MANAGER: Ready on the floor?
STAGE HAND 2: Ready on the floor!
RAOUL: Will she stay? PHANTOM: Obey your heart
Will she go? And sing for me
Does she know even now? You want it so, stay and be mine
Please, Christine, stop the show Eternally
BOTH: Devil take the hindmost
Now it's time So make your choice
Do it for our son
PHANTOM: Use your head
RAOUL: No time to wait
Hesitate We're all undone!
STAGE MANAGER: Ready in the pit?
STAGE HAND 3: Ready in the pit!
Perhaps she won't go on Perhaps she'll lose her nerve
Perhaps her voice won't serve And she will fail him now
And then my child and I We'll get what we deserve
ALL: Devil take the hindmost
Perhaps she won't go on Perhaps she'll lose her nerve
Perhaps her voice won't serve And she will fail him now
And then my child and I We'll get what we deserve
ALL: Devil take the hindmost
Now it's time No turning back
All is on the line
Here it is The final dance
One last chance To get what's mine
I hope Christine is worthy of you.
I hope her singing makes up for what your blindness
has done to Meg and me.
Devil take the hindmost
STAGE MANAGER: And curtain.
Who knows when love begins?
Who knows what makes it start?
One day it's simply there
Alive inside in your heart
It slips into your thoughts
It infiltrates your soul
It takes you by surprise
Then seizes full control
Try to deny it And try to protest
But love won't let you go
Once you've been possessed
Love never dies
Love never falters
Once it has spoken
Love is yours
Love never fades
Love never alters
Hearts may get broken
Love endures
Hearts may get broken
Love endures
And soon as you submit Surrender flesh and bone
That love takes on a life Far greater than your own
It uses you at whim And drives you to despair
And forces you to feel More joy than you can bear
Love gives you pleasure And love brings you pain
And yet, when both are gone
Love will still remain
Once it has spoken
Love is yours
Love never dies
Love never alters
Hearts may get broken
Love endures
Hearts may get broken
Love never dies
Love will continue
Love keeps on beating
When you're gone
Love never dies
Once it is in you
Life may be fleeting
Love lives on
Life may be fleeting
(GASPS)
Love lives on
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
Ah, Christine My Christine
What a triumph you gave me tonight
My Christine
All the dark, silent years now put right
Ah, Christine
The song was beautiful
It sounded beautiful
Every note Every word
And it felt beautiful
And I felt beautiful
BOTH: Lost in the music once more
Feeling it rise up and soar
Alive once again
(GASPING)
"My dearest wife."
Little Lotte, I beg you, forgive me
Raoul, no!
RAOUL: Little Lotte Ah, what fools we once were
BOTH: Long ago, in our youth
"In Paris, at the opera"
Romantic idiots.
"Those two people are gone."
BOTH: Now I must go Our choices are made
The opera is done The last notes have been played
May your angel of music Watch over you now
And give you what I wish I gave you somehow
Yours, in regret...
"Raoul."
Gustave. What is it?
Gustave. What's wrong?
I told him to wait for Raoul. Before he asked me to...
Surely he wouldn't...
That perfidious Raoul I will kill that drunken fool
That he'd dare take this child A child that isn't his
SQUELCH: Sir.
The Vicomte de Chagny left here alone, sir
Saw with my own eyes, sir
There was no one with him
Was there anyone else here backstage?
Madame Giry, she was here
With that vicious little sneer
And that comment she made The ungrateful, back-biting snake
Go now, quickly Bring her round
Bring the boy back safe and sound
Then I'll make that vixen pay
What is the meaning of this? How dare your circus ghouls
manhandle me in this fashion? The boy, woman!
What have you done with him?
The boy? You think I took the boy?
Why would I do such a thing?
Do you think I don't know who he is?
FLECK: Sir?
I just passed Meg's dressing room It was silent as a tomb
But her mirror was smashed All in pieces on the floor
God, I left her so distraught
God knows what she must have thought
Foolish child, she must be caught
My poor Gustave!
But she won't hurt him!
Meg would never hurt him
I know where she's going. But we must hurry!
(OMINOUS CARNIVAL MUSIC PLAYING)
(ROARING)
Please, Miss Giry I want to go back
Gustave!
GUSTAVE: Miss Giry, I can't swim.
I want my mother
The sea is calm The sea is gray
It washes everything away
Please. You're hurting me. I can't swim.
Don't worry. It's almost over.
Sink into the deep
Blue and cool and kind
Then drift off to sleep
Let the past unwind
Leave the hurt behind
CHRISTINE: Gustave! Mother?
PHANTOM: Let go of the boy, now!
Not another step
Let go of him, girl.
Not another word
Always wondered how to make you watch
Well, watch me now
I took a little trip to Coney Island
I took a little trip because of you
I did as Mother said And followed where you led
And tried to do what little I could do
But here's the way it works on Coney Island
They make you pay for every little crumb
I gave what they would take
I gave it for your sake
Now look at me
And see what I've become
Bathing beauty on the beach
Bathing beauty in her dressing room
Bathing beauty in the dark
On their laps In their arms
In their beds
Meg. My little Meg!
And who kept singing
Desperate for your favor?
Who kept dancing
Hoping you would save her?
Who kept dying?
And this is all you gave her
CHRISTINE: Gustave! PHANTOM: No, don't do that, girl. Please.
(PHANTOM WEEPS)
Now that I've got your attention at last
(SOBBING) Here's the big finish And then you can go
No, Meg, don't!
Give me the gun, Meg
Give me the hurt and the pain And the gun, Meg
Give me the blame for not seeing the things That you've done, Meg
Give me the gun, Meg
Give me the chance to see you clear at last
See me clear at last
You feel ugly You feel used
You feel broken You feel bruised
Ah, but me I can see all the beauty underneath
Yes.
You've been robbed of love and pride
Been ignored and cast aside
Even so, I still know There is beauty underneath
Yes.
Diamonds never sparkle bright
If they aren't set just right
Beauty sometimes goes unseen
We can't all be like Christine
Christine? Christine! Always Christine!
(GUN FIRES) (SHRIEKING)
(GASPING)
No! No! Madame Giry, get help.
Quickly!
Meg!
No!
Father! Where's Father?
Gustave! Your father...
Christine, no!
I know. I promised.
But you are all he has now. He has to know the truth.
Christine, please. Gustave.
Your father, your real father
is here.
No. No.
Look with your heart
And not with your eyes
The heart understands
The heart never lies
No!
Gustave!
Once upon another time
Our story had only begun
I had a taste of joy
The most I ever knew
Now there isn't any time
And somehow our story is done
And what about the boy?
What am I to do?
Just love
Just live
Just give what you can give
And take the love that you deserve
BOTH: Just love
Just live
And give... I'll give all that I have
And take what little I deserve
Come closer I beg you
Closer still
Remember
Love never dies
Kiss me one last time
No!
(SOBBING)
Love never dies
Love never falters
Once it has spoken
Love is yours
Love never dies
Love will continue
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
(AUDIENCE WHOOPING)
(AUDIENCE CLAPPING RHYTHMICALLY)
(AUDIENCE CHEERING LOUDLY)