Masquerade / Why So Silent Medley

Masquerade

Why So Silent

Madame Giry's Tale / The Fairground Medley

Madame Giry's Tale

The Fairground

Journey to the Cemetery

Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again

Wandering Child

The Swordfight

We Have All Been Blind

Don Juan

The Point Of No Return / Chandelier Crash Medley

The Point of No Return

Chandelier Crash

Down Once More / Track Down This Murderer Medley

Down Once More

Track Down This Murderer

Learn to be Lonely

Learn to Be Lonely - Minnie Driver

FIRMIN
M'sieur Andre?

ANDRE
M'sieur Firmin?

FIRMIN
Dear Andre, what a splendid party!

ANDRE
The prologue to a bright new year!

FIRMIN
Quite a night! I'm impressed!

FIRMIN
Well, one does one's best ...

ANDRE/FIRMIN
Here's to us! The toast for the city

FIRMIN
What a pity that 'Phantom' can't be here.

CHORUS
Masquerade!
Paper faces on parade ...
Masquerade!
Hide your face, so the world will never find you!

Masquerade!
Every face a different shade ..
Masquerade!
Look around -
there's another mask behind you!

Flash of mauve .. Splash of puce ...
Fool and king ... Ghoul and goose ...
Green and black ... Queen and priest ...
Trace and rouge ... Face of beast ...
Faces ...
Take your turn, take a ride on the merry-go-round ...
in an inhuman race ...

Eye of gold ... Thigh of blue ...
True is false ... Who is who ...?
Crul of lip ... Swirl of gown ...
Ace of hearts ... Face of clown ...
Faces ...
Drink it in, drink it up, till you've drowned
in the light ...
in the sound ...

RAOUL/CHRISTINE
But who can name the face ...

ALL
Masquerade!
Grinning yellows, spinning reds ...
Masquerade!
Take your fill -
let the spectacle astound you!

Masquerade!
Burning glances, turning heads ...
Masquerade!
Stop and stare at the sea of smiles around you!

Masquerade!
Seething shadows, breathing lies ...
Masquerade!
You can fool any friend who ever knew you!

Masquerade!
Leering satyrs, peering eyes ...
Masquerade!
Run and hide -
but a face will still pursue you!

GIRY
What a night!

MEG
What a crowd!

ANDRE
Makes you glad!

FIRMIN
Makes you proud!
All the creme de la creme!

CARLOTTA
Watching us watching them!

MEG/GIRY
And all our fears are in the past!

ANDRE
Three months ...

PIANGI
Of relief!

CARLOTTA
Of delight!

ANDRE/FIRMIN
Of Elysian peace!

MEG/GIRY
And we can breathe at last!

CARLOTTA
No more notes!

PIANGI
No more ghosts!

GIRY
Here's a health!

ANDRE
Here's a toast: to a prosperous year!

FIRMIN
To our friends who are here

PIANGI/CARLOTTA
And may our splendour never fade!

FIRMIN
Three months!

GIRY
What a joy!

MEG
What a change!

FIRMIN/ANDRE
What a blessed release!

ANDRE
And what a masquerade!

CHRISTINE
Think of it! A secret engagement!
Look - your future bride!
Just think of it!

RAOUL
But why is it secret?
What have we to hide?
You promised me

CHRISTINE
No, Raoul, please don't do this

RAOUL
Well, let them see
It's an engagement, not a crime!

Christine, What are you afraid of?

CHRISTINE
Let's not argue ...

RAOUL
Let's not argue ...

CHRISTINE
Please pretend ...

RAOUL
I can only hope I'll ...

CHRISTINE
You will ...

BOTH
... understand in time ...

ALL
Masquerade!
Paper faces on parade!
Masquerade!
Hide your face, so the world will never find you!

Masquerade!
Every face a different shade!
Masquerade!
Look around -
There's another mask behind you!

Masquerade!
Burning glances turning heads ...
Masquerade!
Stop and stare at the sea of smiles around you!

Masquerade!
Grinning yellows, spinning reds ...
Masquerade!
Take your fill -
let the spectacle astound you!

PHANTOM
Why so silent, good messieurs?
Did you think that I had left you for good?
Have you missed me, good messieurs?
I have written you an opera!
Here I bring the finished score
"Don Juan Triumphant" !
Fondest greetings to you all !
A few instructions just before rehearsal starts:
Carlotta must be taught to act, not her normal trick
of strutting round the stage.
Our Don Juan must lose some weight -
it's not healthy in a man of Piangi's age.
And my managers must learn that their place is in an office, not the arts.

As for Miss Christine Daae ...
No doubt she'll do her best - it's true her voice is good.
She knows, though, should she wish to excel
she has much still to learn, if pride will let her return to me
Her teacher, her teacher ...

Your chain's just a mime
You belong to me!

[Thanks to Heather Craft for correct lyrics]

Carlotta
What a night!

Piangi
What a crowd!

ANDRE
Makes you glad!

FIRMIN
Makes you proud!
All the creme de la creme!

CARLOTTA
Watching us watching them!

MEG/GIRY
And all our fears are in the past!

ANDRE
Three months ...

PIANGI
Of relief!

CARLOTTA
Of delight!

ANDRE/FIRMIN
Of Elysian peace!

FIRMIN
And we can breathe at last!

Giry
No more doubts!

PIANGI
No more ghosts!

GIRY
Here's a health!

ANDRE
Here's a toast: to a prosperous year!

FIRMIN
To all friends that are here

PIANGI/CARLOTTA
And may its splendour never fade!

FIRMIN
Three months!

Meg
What a joy!

Giry
What a change!

FIRMIN/ANDRE
What a blessed release!

Giry
And what a masquerade!

[Thanks to Steven Ujvary for lyrics]
[Thanks to Kelly for correct lyrics]

RAOUL
Madame Giry. Wait

MADAME GIRY
Please, Monsieur, I know no more than anyone else.

RAOUL
That's not true.

MADAME GIRY
Monsieur, don't ask, there have been too many accidents

RAOUL
Accidents? Please, Madame Giry, for all our sakes ...

MADAME GIRY
Very well.
It was years ago.
There was a travelling fair in the city.
Gypsies
I was very young, studying to be a ballerina
One of many
Living in the dormitory of the opera house

Come, come, come inside
Come and see the devil's child

Murder, murder

Which way?

I have hidden him from the world and its cruelty is
He has known nothing else of life since then
Except this opera house
It was his playground and now his artistic domain
He's a genius, he's an architect and designer
He's a composer and a magician
A genius, monsieur

RAOUL
But clearly, Madame Giry, genius has turned to madness

CHRISTINE
To my father's grave, please

In sleep he sang to me
In dreams he came
That voice which calls to me and speaks my name

Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing
Her Father promised her that he would send her the Angel of Music.
Her father promised her...
Her father promised her

CHRISTINE
You were once my one companion
you were all that mattered
You were once a friend and father -
then my world was shattered

Wishing you were somehow here again
Wishing you were somehow near
Sometimes it seemed,
if I just dreamed,
somehow you would be here

Wishing I could hear your voice again
knowing that I never would
Dreaming of you won't help me to do
all that you dreamed I could

Passing bells
and sculpted angels,
cold and monumental,
seem, for you, the wrong companions -
you were warm and gentle

Too many years
fighting back tears
Why can't the past just die?

Wishing you were somehow here again
knowing we must say goodbye
Try to forgive
teach me to live
give me the strength to try

No more memories, no more silent tears
No more gazing across the wasted years
Help me say goodbye.

Wandering child,
So lost, so helpless
Yearning for my guidance

Angel or father?
Friend or phantom?
Who is it there, staring?

Have you forgotten your Angel?

Angel, oh, speak
What endless longings
Echo in this whisper

Too long you've wandered in winter
Far from my fathering gaze

Wildly my mind beats against you

You resist

Yet your/the soul obeys...

Angel of Music!
You denied me/I denied you
Turning from true beauty
Angel of Music!
Do not shun me/My protector
Come to me/your strange Angel...

I am your Angel of Music...
Come to me; Angel of Music

No, Christine, wait!
Wait!

Raoul!

Whatever you believe,
this man - this thing - is not your father!

CHRISTINE
No, Raoul, no
Not like this

PHANTOM
Now, let it be war upon you both!

We have all been blind
And yet the answer is staring us in the face
This could be the chance
To ensnare our clever friend

We're listening...

Go on.

We shall play his game
Perform his work, but remember we hold the ace
For if Miss Daae sings
He is certain to attend

We are certain the doors are barred

We are certain the police are there

We are certain they're armed

The curtain falls
His reign will end!

Raoul, I'm frightened...
Don't make me do this
It scares me,
Don't put me through this ordeal by fire.
He'll take me, I know
We'll be parted forever...
He won't let me go.

What I once used to dream, I now dread.
If he finds me, it won't ever end.

And he'll always be there,
singing songs in my head...
He'll always be there,
singing songs in my head...

You said yourself,
He was nothing but a man...
Yet while he lives,
He will haunt us 'til we're dead.

Twisted every way
What answer can I give?
Am I to risk my life
To win the chance to live?
Can I betray the man
Who once inspired my voice?
Do I become his prey?
Do I have any choice?

He kills without a thought
He murders all that's good
I know I can't refuse...
And yet, I wish I could
Oh God, if I agree
What horrors wait for me
In this, the Phantom's opera

Christine, Christine
Don't think that I don't care
But every hope, and every prayer
rests on you now

Seal my fate tonight
I hate to have to cut the fun short
But the joke's wearing thin
Let the audience in
Let my opera begin!

Here the sire may serve the dam,
here the master takes his meat!
Here the sacrificial lamb
utters one despairing bleat!

Poor young maiden! For the thrill
on your tongue of stolen sweets
you will have to pay the bill -
tangled in the winding sheets!

Serve the meal and serve the maid!
Serve the master so that, when tables, plans and maids are laid,
Don Juan triumphs once again!

Passarino, faithful friend,
once again recite the plan.
Your young guest believes I'm you -
I, the master, you, the man
When you met you wore my cloak,
she cannot see your face.
She believes she dines with me,
in her master's borrowed place!
Furtively, we'll scoff and quaff,
stealing what, in truth, is mine.
When it's late and modesty
starts to mellow, with the wine ...
You come home! I use your voice -
slam the door like crack of doom!
I shall say: "come - hide with me!
Where, oh, where? Of course - my room!"

Poor thing hasn't got a chance!

Here's my hat, my cloak and sword.
Conquest is assured,
if I do not forget myself and laugh ...

No thoughts
within her head,
but thoughts of joy!
No dreams
within her heart
but dreams of love!

Master?
Passarino - go away!
For the trap is set and waits for its prey ...
You have come here
in pursuit of your deepest urge,
in pursuit of that wish,
which till now has been silent,
silent ...

I have brought you,
that our passions may fuse and merge -
in your mind
you've already succumbed to me
dropped all defences
completely succumbed to me -
now you are here with me:
no second thoughts,
you've decided,
decided ...

Past the point of no return -
no backward glances:
Our games of make-believe are at an end
Past all thought of "if" or "when" -
no use resisting:
abandon thought,
and let the dream descend ...

What raging fire shall flood the soul
What rich desire unlocks its door
What sweet seduction lies before us?

Past the point of no return
The final threshold
What warm unspoken secrets
Will we learn
beyond the point of no return?

You have brought me
To that moment when words run dry
To that moment when speech disappears
Into silence
Silence.

I have come here,
Hardly knowing the reason why
In my mind I've already imagined
Our bodies entwining
Defenseless and silent,
Now I am here with you
No second thoughts
I've decided
Decided.

Past the point of no return
No going back now
Our passion-play has now at last begun.

Past all thought of right or wrong
One final question
How long should we two wait before we're one?

When will the blood begin to race
The sleeping bud burst into bloom
When will the flames at last consume us?

Past the point of no return
The final threshold
The bridge is crossed
So stand and watch it burn
We've passed the point of no return.

Say you'll share with me
One love, one lifetime
Lead me, save me from my solitude

Say you'll want me
With you here
Beside you
Anywhere you go
Let me go too
Christine that's all I ask of...

Go!

Oh, my darling
You left before me

Oh my God

We're ruined, Andre, ruined

Where did he take her?
Come with me, monsieur
I will take you to him
But remember, keep your hand at the level of your eyes
I'll go with you
No, Meg, you must stay here
Come with me, monsieur

No!

Down once more to the dungeons of my black despair
Down we plunge to the prison of my mind
Down that path into darkness,
deep as hell

Why, you ask,
was I bound and chained
in this cold and dismal place?
Not for any mortal sin
but the wickedness of my abhorrent face

Track down this murderer
He must be found
Track down this murderer
He must be found

Hounded out by everyone
Met with hatred everywhere
No kind words from anyone
No compassion anywhere

Christine
Why, why . . .?

Your hand at the level of your eyes

Your hand at the level of your eyes

Your hand at the level of your eyes

This is as far as I dare go

Thank you

Have you gorged yourself at last in your lust for blood?
Am I now to be prey to your lust for flesh?

That fate, which condemns me to wallow in blood
Has also denied me the joys of the flesh . . .
This face, the infection which poisons our love . . .
This face, which earned a mother's fear and loathing
A mask, my first unfeeling scrap of clothing

Pity comes too late
Turn around and face your fate
An eternity of this before your eyes

This haunted face holds no horror for me now
It's in your soul that the true distortion lies

Wait! I think, my dear, we have a guest
Sir!
-Raoul!
This is indeed an unparalleled delight
I had rather hoped that you would come
And now my wish comes true
You have truly made my night!

Let me go!

Free her
Do what you like, only free her
Have you no pity?

Your lover makes a passionate plea

Please, Raoul, it's useless

I love her
Does that mean nothing?
I love her
Show some compassion

The world showed no compassion to me!

Christine . . .
Christine . . .
Let me see her

Be my guest, sir...
Monsieur, I bid you welcome
Did you think that I would harm her?
Why would I make her pay for the sins which are yours?

Order your fine horses now
Raise up your hand to the level of your eyes
Nothing can save you now, except perhaps Christine

Start a new life with me
Buy his freedom with your love!
Refuse me, and you send your lover to his death!
This is the choice,
This is the point of no return!

The tears I might have shed for your dark fate,
Grow cold and turn to tears of hate

Christine, forgive me, please forgive me
I did it all for you, and all for nothing . . .

Farewell, my fallen idol and false friend
We had such hopes, and now those hopes are shattered

Too late for turning back, Too late for prayers and useless pity

Say you love him, and my life is over!

All hope of cries for help,
No point in fighting
For either way you choose, You cannot win

Either way you choose, he has to win

So do you end your days with me
Or do you send him to his grave?

Why make her lie to you to save me?

Angel of Music . . .
Past the point of no return...
Christine say no!
Don't throw your life away for my sake!

Who deserved this?

The final threshold . . .

His life is now the prize which you must earn!

Why do you curse mercy?

I fought so hard to free you . . .

Angel of Music . . .

You've passed the point of no return!

. . . you deceived me
I gave you my mind blindly

You try my patience,
Make your choice!

Pitiful creature of darkness,
What kind of life have you known?
God give me courage to show you,
You are not alone...

Track down this murderer, he must be found!
Hunt out this animal, who runs to ground!

Take her, forget me,
Forget all of this . . .
Leave me alone - forget all you've seen . . .
Go now - don't let them find you!
Take the boat, swear to me, never to tell
The secret you know, of the angel in hell!

Go now - go now and leave me!

Masquerade
Paper faces on parade . . .
Masquerade
Hide your face so the world will never find you . . .

Christine, I love you....

Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime
Say the word and I will follow you...
Share each day with me, each night, each morning...

You alone, can make my song take flight
It's over now, the music of the night

Child of the wilderness
Born into emptiness
Learn to be lonely
Learn to find your way in darkness
Who will be there for you
Comfort and care for you
Learn to be lonely
Learn to be your one companion
Never dreamed out in the world
Never arms to hold you
You've always known
Your heart was on its own
So laugh in your loneliness
Child of the wilderness
Learn to be lonely
Learn how to love life that is lived alone
Learn to be lonely
Life can be lived
Life can be loved
Alone.

[Thanks to Heather Craft for correct lyrics]

The Phantom of the Opera (2004 Movie Soundtrack) Disc1