Night time sharpens, heightens each sensation Darkness stirs and wakes imagination Silently the senses abandon their defences
Slowly, gently, night unfurls its splendour Grasp it, sense it, tremulous and tender Turn your face away from the garish light of day, turn your thoughts away from cold, unfeeling light and listen to the music of the night
Close your eyes and surrender to your darkest dreams! Purge your thoughts of the life you knew before! Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar! And you'll live as you've never lived before
Softly, deftly, music shall surround you Feel it, hear it, closing in around you Open up your mind, let your fantasies unwind, in this darkness which you know you cannot fight the darkness of the music of the night
Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world! Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before! Let your soul take you where you long to be ! Only then can you belong to me
Floating, falling, sweet intoxication! Touch me, trust me, savour each sensation! Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in to the power of the music that I write the power of the music of the night
You alone can make my song take flight help me make the music of the night
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 of 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 ...? Curl 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/GlRY And all our fears are in the past!
ANDRE Six 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 ghost!
GIRY Here's a health!
ANDRE Here's a toast: to a prosperous year!
FIRMIN To the new chandelier!
PIANGI/CARLOTTA And may its splendour never fade!
FIRMIN Six 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?
CHRISTINE Please, let's not fight ...
RAOUL CHRISTINE, you're free!
CHRISTINE Wait till the time is right ...
RAOUL When will that be? 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" !
I advise you to comply - my instructions should be clear - Remember there are worse things than a shattered chandelier ...
Your chains are still mine - you will sing for me!
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 ...
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.
DON JUAN(PHANTOM) Past the point of no return no backward glances the games we've played till now 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
AMINTA(CHRISTINE) You have brought me to that moment where words run dry, to that moment where speech disappears into silence, silence...
I have come here, hardly knowing the reason why In my mind, I've already imagined our bodies entwining, defenceless and silent and 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 thougt 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...?
BOTH 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
PHANTOM Sat you'll share with me one love, ane lifetime... Lead me, save me from my solitude
Say you want me with you here beside you Anywhere you go let me go too Christine, that's all I ask of...