The whispers between Erik and Christine you never heard. Years after the Phantom's disappearance, they are transformed into a duet for doomed lovers.
Christine & Erik
Erik:
Cast into the bitter void!
Chasm of a futile choice;
That precious fruit which we once plucked
Now has died without a voice
And judgment falls
From cruel outsider.
What be we?
but players in a tragedy.
Damned was this union at the start,
Fatality of a starving heart;
Bringing tainted happiness
When first we meet, and then must part.
Should I see you in another life
In footsteps that were predestined
To join in holy chorus with
Our voices thundering like angels;
Aver that you know me still.
Lover from a long-lost time…
Awake we are blind;
In dreams we dance If only in the heart and mind,
Relive this love of chance.
Should this blossom not see spring,
Let it wither at my grave;
For fate is indeed a twisted knave.
Given witness by the One above:
Wed or parted,
Love is love.
Christine:
I pray, I wish to hold, to see
Your evening star glance down on me
So proud a face to look upon;
So dark the eyes that glaringly
Evade the dawn
A half-crazed dervish of a man
Who sings as only angels can,
Walks in shadows, sings of hell
Though his said deformity is
But a shell.
Were you full of handsomeness,
I believe I should love you less;
For I would have you as you are.
The bittersweet need never please
the mirror's eye.
Cease this senseless masquerade!
Run now from the arms of hate.
Those whose hearts can see the truth
Care not how cruelly you were made.
Monster, apparition, man:
More truly radiant are you than
The undiscerning light of day
That seeks to keep you far away
From my wandering lost hand.
Together:
If all the world was bare but for the two
If nothing whispered in your ear but my sweet words to you,
Would you sing to me?
If I kissed you on a darkened stage when curtain falls
If you could hear the rhythm of my heart behind these walls,
Would you turn from me?