Lyrics Before the Performance - Andrew Lloyd Webber

Christine
Gustave, could you pass me those earrings
The sapphire ones
How do I look

Gustave
You look so beautiful
So very beautiful
Like a queen in a book

Christine
You to 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 beautiful as the first time I came to her dressing room

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
Could you wait outside awhile

Gustave
But when's mother going to sing
We don't want to miss it

Christine
Go and waith backstage, my dear
Soon, papa will fetch you there
You can both watch from the wings

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 our hopes mislaid
I'm aware of the price they've exacted
Though I've no right to ast 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
But, Raoul

Raoul
You've got to know
Something's terribly wrong, dear

Christine
But I have to do this
It's what we agreed to

Raoul
That Hell-spawned 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 booked a passage for three to Carbary
On the "atlantic queen"
Let's be on it for both our sakes
And the boy
Leave this place behind

Christine
Go and find Gustave
Tell the stage manager not to disturb me
I need some time

Phantom
You know his love is not enough
You know he 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 as 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
Fufill us, complete us
Make us whole
Seal our bond for ever more
Tonight, for me
Embrace your destiny
Let me hear you sing
Once more

Christine
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