Before The Performance

Song Before The Performance
Artist Andrew Lloyd Webber
Album Phantom Of The Opera (25th Anniversary Box Set: 4CD)

Lyrics

[ti:Before The Performance]
[ar:Andrew Lloyd Webber]
[al:Love Never Dies]
[00:00.67] Ooh
[00:14.86] Gustave, could you hand me those earrings
[00:17.48] The diamond ones on the left?
[00:21.30] There, how do I look?
[00:24.61] You look so beautiful
[00:29.86] So very beautiful
[00:35.54] Like a queen in a book
[00:41.55] You too are beautiful
[00:46.05] So very beautiful
[00:50.55] Once this performance is through
[00:57.48] We'll spend some time just us two
[01:03.48] Won't that be fun?
[01:06.98]
[01:08.74] Father, doesn't mother look lovely tonight?
[01:12.48] Indeed she does
[01:14.29] As lovely as she looked the very first time
[01:16.42] I came to her dressing room door
[01:18.42] And look at you, Raoul
[01:20.17] Huh?
[01:20.86] You look just like that handsome boy in the opera box
[01:24.73] The one who'd always toss me a single red rose
[01:28.86] Please, Gustave, if you don't mind
[01:31.42] Would you wait outside a while?
[01:34.80] May I go exploring, by myself?
[01:37.24] Yes, but stay backstage, my dear
[01:40.67] When I'm finished, meet me here
[01:43.30] I will
[01:45.79]
[01:51.54] Since our wedding day, things have gone astray
[01:56.68] Raoul
[01:57.11] I'm not proud of the way that I've acted
[02:00.74] We've both been
[02:01.61] The demands I've made, all the hopes mislaid
[02:05.42] I'm aware of the price they've exacted
[02:09.92] Though I've no right to ask you to
[02:13.55] There's one thing more I'd have you do
[02:16.99] If you love me as I love you
[02:25.48] Anything, darling
[02:27.29] Don't sing the song, dear
[02:29.61] What?
[02:30.36] But, Raoul
[02:31.11] You have to know
[02:32.17] Something's terribly wrong, dear
[02:34.92] But I have to do this
[02:37.29] It's what we agreed to
[02:41.42] That hell-spawn demon
[02:44.74] He's had us playing his game all along, dear
[02:48.24] Let me just get through this
[02:50.48] Listen, please, I need to
[02:54.30] You need so much, it's true
[03:00.30] And I've denied you
[03:05.86] You need the man you knew
[03:10.61] Back here beside you
[03:15.42] You'll have him back, I vow
[03:20.18] Just ask it of me
[03:24.36] But we must leave here now
[03:28.36] If you still love me
[03:34.36]
[03:35.92] Do you mean it, Raoul, truly?
[03:39.73] I've booked a passage for three
[03:40.85] To Cherbourg on the Atlantic Queen, it leaves in an hour
[03:43.24] We'll have just enough time, I beg you
[03:46.19] Let's be on it for both our sakes
[03:48.88] And the child's
[03:52.44] Leave this place behind
[04:03.82]
[05:06.82] He knows his love is not enough
[05:13.94] He knows he isn't what you need
[05:21.37] He knows you're made of finer stuff
[05:28.00] I think on that we're all agreed
[05:34.57] It's time to leave him in the dust
[05:40.82] It's time to be who you should be
[05:48.38] It's time to do now as you must
[05:54.76] And set the music in you free
[06:03.69]
[06:06.00] In moments, mere moments
[06:11.31] Drums will roll
[06:14.87]
[06:16.63] There you'll stand just like before
[06:25.38] The crowd will hush
[06:30.94] And then in one sweet rush
[06:38.00] I will hear you sing once more
[06:47.20] And music, our music
[06:51.57] Will swell and then unwind
[06:56.01] Like two strands of melody at last entwined
[07:06.34]
[07:07.02] Fulfill us, complete us
[07:12.02] Make us whole
[07:17.26] Seal our bond forever more
[07:26.26] Tonight, for me
[07:30.27] Embrace your destiny
[07:37.51] Let me here you sing once more
[07:53.82]
[07:57.45] Miss Daa, it's time
[08:02.70] Twisted every way
[08:05.76] What answer can I give?
[08:12.01]
[08:33.20] I know I can't refuse
[08:36.33] And yet I wish I could
[08:39.46] Oh, God
[08:42.33]
[08:52.70] Christine, Christine
[08:56.96] Don't think that I don't care
[09:01.58] But every hope and every prayer
[09:05.83] Rests on you now
[09:10.00]