Before the Performance Lyrics by Ramin Karimloo, Joseph Millson, Charlie Manton, Sierra Boggess
Love Never Dies
2010
GUSTAVE: Ooh...ooh...ooh...ooh... CHRISTINE: Gustave, could you hand me those earrings? The diamond ones on the left. There, how do I look? GUSTAVE: You look so beautiful So very beautiful Like a queen in a book CHRISTINE: 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? GUSTAVE: (Father! Doesn't Mother look lovely tonight?) RAOUL: (Indeed she does. As lovely as she looked the very first time I came to her dressing room door.) CHRISTINE: (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.) RAOUL: Please, Gustave, if you don't mind Would you wait outside a while? GUSTAVE: (May I go exploring? By myself?) CHRISTINE: Yes, but stay backstage my dear When I'm finished, meet me here GUSTAVE: (I will.) RAOUL: Since our wedding day Things have gone astray CHRISTINE: (Raoul...) RAOUL: I'm not proud of the way that I've acted CHRISTINE: (We've both been...) RAOUL: The demands I've made All the 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 CHRISTINE: (Anything, darling.) RAOUL: Don't sing the song, dear CHRISTINE: (What? But Raoul...) RAOUL: You have to know something's terribly wrong, dear CHRISTINE: But I have to do this It's what we agreed to RAOUL: That hell spawn demon He's had us playing his game all along, dear CHRISTINE: Let me just get through this Listen, please. I need to RAOUL: 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 CHRISTINE: (Do you mean it, Raoul? Truly?) RAOUL: (I've booked a passage for three to Cherbourg on the Atlantic Queen. It leaves in an hour, we'll have just enough time. I beg you. Let's be on it, for both our sakes. And the child's.) Leave this place behind PHANTOM: He knows his love is not enough He knows he isn't what you need He knows 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 full Seal our bond forever more Tonight, for me Embrace your destiny Let me hear you sing Once more! STAGEHAND: (Miss Daaé, it's time.) CHRISTINE: Twisted in every way What answer can I give? I know I can't refuse And yet, I wish I could Oh, god RAOUL: (offstage) Christine, Christine Don't think that I don't care PHANTOM: But every hope and every prayer Rests on you now
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"Before the Performance" appears on "Love Never Dies" in 2010.
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