Evangelion: The Rock Opera

Act One

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Evangelion Rhapsody
(Sung to the tune of "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen)

Shinji:
Is this the right place?
The city's a war zone
Just a recording
If I use the telephone
Everyone's gone, could this be the con I feared?
A girl with blue hair? No wait, she disappeared

Misato: (pulling up)
Know I'm late, gotta go
Get in quick, dodge that toe

Shinji:
That foot almost squished me,
Leaving now sounds good to me
To me...

Fuyutsuki: (at NERV HQ)
Weapons, conventional
Can't pierce and AT field,
But an EVA breaks their shield

Gendo:
I'll launch, EVA Unit One
A spare pilot's already on his way

Shinji: (arriving at NERV)
Father!
Why did you send for me?

Gendo:
It's because I now have a use for you

Shinji:
Should have known, should have known
To you that's all that matters

Gendo:
Get Rei, she's not dead yet

Shinji:
She rolls in on a bed,
Wreckage almost hits her head

Ritsuko:
That just, cannot happen
It's not plugged in!

Misato:
It ripped out of the arm restraint to save that boy!

Shinji:
Father!
I'll pilot Unit One!
It scares me but I mustn't run away!

(musical interlude as the entry plug is inserted and Unit One is launched)

Maya:
I see his vitals and synch ratio is steady

All NERV Staff:
Can he walk? Can he walk? Oh no, now he is falling

Ritsuko:
Laser beam cracks brain case! This could be a disgrace! Oh!

All NERV Staff:
He is losing! (He is losing!) He is losing! (He is losing!) He is losing! He is losing, we're all dead!

Misato:
Sever the nerve connections!

Shinji:
I'm just a dumb kid, can't fight an angel

All NERV Staff:
He's just a dumb kid, can't fight an angel!
Eject the plug to save him from certain death!

Shinji:
Mustn't run, mustn't run, hey there what's that light?

Ritsuko:
Berserker!

Sachiel:
No! I will not let you fight!

All NERV Staff:
(Let him fight!)

Ritsuko:
Berserker!

Sachiel:
I will not let you fight!

All NERV Staff:
(Let him fight!)

Ritsuko:
Berserker!

Sachiel:
I will not let you fight!

All NERV Staff:
(Let him fight!)

Sachiel:
Will not let you fight!

All NERV Staff:
(Let him fight!)

Sachiel:
Will not let you fight!

All NERV Staff:
(Let him fight!)

Sachiel and NERV Staff:
No, no, no, no, no, no, no!

Maya:
It's an AT Field! An AT Field!

All NERV Staff:
An AT Field! Let him fight!

Eva Unit One:
I fixed my arm, now it's time to kill you, kill you, kill you!

(musical interlude as Unit One tears apart Sachiel)

Ritsuko:
What kind of monster did I just help Gendo create?

Gendo:
Don't see your problem, EVA looks like it's working out great

Shinji:
Oh, mama, is this somehow my mama?

Misato:
It's gonna explode! It's gonna kill itself and explode!

(musical interlude as Sachiel explodes and Unit One's faceplate is blown off; Shinji faints and wakes up in the infirmary)

Shinji:
Unfamiliar Ceiling, that's all I can see
Unfamiliar Ceiling,
Unfamiliar Ceilings for me
But I'll pilot EVA

Captain Katsuragi's Awesome Pad / Give Hedgehogs Help Making Friends

(Sung to the tune of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / A Little Help from My Friends" by The Beatles)

Misato:
Gotta say I think you're pretty brave
Stepping up and piloting to save
The whole city of Tokyo-3
Fighting hard to keep it angel-free
You don't wanna stay with your dad
So how about crashing with me?
At Captain Katsuragi's awesome pad!

There ain't no need to ask, you can come in
You know that this is your home now
There ain't no need to ask, you can come in
Don't call me "ma'am," don't even bow
Captain Katsuragi's, Captain Katsuragi's
Captain Katsuragi's awesome pad

Why don't you take a bath now?
Just dodge my underwear
Watch out for your other roommate
Your roommate Pen-Pen's there!

Think it's time for me to have a beer
You can cover up and then come here
We gotta divvy up all the chores
Rock beats scissors so now they're all yours
Yeah, when else have you ever had
A better place to call your own?
Than Captain Katsuragi's awesome pad!

Awesome pad...

(fade out to a montage of life with Misato; she calls Ritsuko a few days later)

Ritsuko:
What would you say, if I told this kid
Has got a dilemma pretty weird?
Like a hedgehog, when he tries to get close
It releases the pain that he feared
You gotta give hedgehogs help making friends
To live, they need help making friends

Misato:
But how to give Shinji help making friends?

Center Target and Pull the Switch

(sung to the tune of "Don't You Want Somebody to Love" by Jefferson Airplane)

Ritsuko:
When an angel comes into sight
You best be sure to get this right

Center target and pull the switch
Center target and pull the switch
Just center target and pull the switch
You gotta target and pull the switch

When your chord is cut, you could freeze
There's just one minute in your batteries

Shinji:
Center target and pull the switch
Center target and pull the switch
Just center target and pull the switch
I gotta target and pull the switch

Toji's Mad

(sung to the tune of "Bad" by Michael Jackson)

Toji:
Your face is mine
Gonna pop you one
You best stay down
'Cause I've just begun
You hurt my sis
With your robot
When you and that
Dumb angel fought
Don't whine, don't whine
Take your beating, all right...

Don't tell me that
They made you fight
'Cause no excuse
Could make this right
A little girl
Might never walk
Can't pay for that
With all your talk

Kensuke:
Better keep your mouth shut new kid
I've seen him like this before
When his anger starts exploding
He'll knock you through the floor!

Toji (with Kensuke singing backup):
'Cause Toji's mad! I'm mad
Rage on!
(Mad, mad -really, really mad)
Yeah Toji's mad! I'm mad
You bet it
(Mad, mad -really, really mad)
You know I'm mad! I'm mad
Rage on, you bet
(Mad, mad -really, really mad)

Toji and Kensuke:
And the whole school better be on alert
'Cause he might just pop you too

Touji:
I'm mad!

(musical interlude as the siren rings; Toji and Kensuke moonwalk to the shelter)

Kensuke:
The news is off
Won't let us see
The biggest fight
In history
So say that you
Gotta take a leak
We can slip out
And take a peak
Just boost me up
Out the window
Come on let's run
And catch the show

Hey look at that new kid fighting
This just might not be his day
He might lose because you beat him
Now he's been thrown this way!

Kensuke (with Toji singing backup):
Toji you cad! Egad!
What now?
(This is really really bad)
You beat that lad, so bad
You screwed us!
(This is really really bad)
And now I'm sad, so sad
I really might die!
(This is really really bad)

Kensuke and Toji:
Now they're telling us to get in the 'bot
This is really gonna be
So bad

Slug Angel

(Sung to the tune of "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane)

Shinji: (staring down the hill at the angel)
One voice says pilot
And one voice says run
And the one that screams the loudest
Says the torture's just begun
Who cares, Shinji?
If the battle's won

So if I keep fighting angels
And get beaten every day
What's the point of all my struggles?
I won't ever have my say
So I know one thing
I mustn't run away

My hands still are burning
But I've got a progressive knife
So I slide down to face the angel
Knowing this could end my life
Why not, Shinji?
Let's end this strife

They're calling me crazy
And my power's in the red
The slug's in me with it's tentacles
And I'm screaming off my head
But all I care: one of us will be dead
Will be dead
Will be dead

Tokyo-3

(Sung to the tune of "Solsbury Hill" by Peter Gabriel)

Shinji:
Climbed up to see Tokyo-3
I could still hear Misato
I ran from her to be free
Now I don't know where to go
I met up here with Kensuke
Learned he doesn't have a mom
But he seems like he's okay
Maybe I too could move on
So I still look for some salvation
Something to change my situation
Push away the gloom gloom gloom
Then, I hope, I could finally
Rest and find a home

But this respite had to end
Picked up by NERV security
Could Kensuke have been my friend?
Now I might not get to see
Toji asked me for a punch
Said it was to clear his debt
But I think I've got a hunch
Us two aren't even yet
There is some weird kind of connection
Friendship offers my heart protection
I could escape my doom doom doom
Then, I know, somewhere out there
I can find a home

Waiting for the train to come
Realized that I could not leave
For no matter where I'm from
Running won't bring a reprieve
I might not know why I fight
It's a mystery I'll pursue
But there's someone in my sight
Tells me I know what to do
Despite my fear and trepidation
She'd already come to the station
My heart going boom boom boom
Hey, Misato, let's try again
Make Tokyo-3 my home

Rei Ayanami

(Sung to the tune of "Eleanor Rigby" by The Beatles)

Ritsuko:
I see the first of EVA's children
I see the first of EVA's children

Rei Ayanami
Walking at night to a tenement that she calls home
Lives all alone
Prototype Pilot
Risking her life just to synch with a deadly machine
What does she dream?

First of EVA's children, no one knows where she's from
First of EVA's children, will she ever belong?

Gendo Ikari
Shouting her name when her EVA has started to rage
Smashes his
cage
Runs out to save her
Burning his hands on the hatch just to see her inside
But what if she died?

First of EVA's children, no one knows where she's from
First of EVA's children, will she ever belong?

I see the first of EVA's children
I see the first of EVA's children

Rei Ayanami
Glasses are kept from the only one who's ever cared
Will she be spared?
Gendo Ikari
Putting on gloves to conceal when his heart was exposed
Will it stay closed?

First of EVA's children, no one knows where she's from
First of EVA's children, will she ever belong?

Rei's Bond

(Sung to the tune of "Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap)

Rei:
Who are you?
Water still
drips from my hair
Those glasses are the only thing I have
Don't care if I am naked
if you
feel me

You can turn around
And try to speak
I'm just not listening
Can follow me
Can give me the ID card
why say,
sorry?

It's my bond
To you, to all people
All I have
He was here first

Entering into the place
You father built to save her soul
So, I don't fear
To pilot the Evangelion
it is
My Life

It's my bond
To you, to all people (Oh, don't you wish for more than this)
I might die (A smile)
He was here first

So, you just say
So, you've no faith in his work
Well, I won't hear that
So, you just say
So, you're afraid to get hurt
Well, I feel pain too
So, you just say
So, you can't do it this time
Well then I'll pilot for you
So, you just say
So,
What should I say?

You say I'm strong, but that won't help me (It's my bond)
You won't die
My EVA will shield you
Goodbye, Shinji (It's my bond)
Time to fight the angel
I'm protecting you,
I'm protecting you

You say I'm strong, but that won't help me (It's my bond)
You won't die
My EVA will shield you
Goodbye, Shinji (It's my bond)
Time to fight the angel
I'm protecting you,
I'm protecting you

Shinji (It's my bond)
I'm protecting you (It's my bond)
Shinji
I'm protecting you
Shinji
I'm protecting you
I'm protecting you
I'm protecting you

I'll Fight Tonight

(Sung to the tune of "Tonight, Tonight" by The Smashing Pumpkins)

Shinji:
Time Is never on our side
There is so much more to say
Every time that you go away
And this time could be the last
The angel is drilling fast
If we can't win, it's over soon

So live
Please live, for me

Just live
Don't say goodbye
To me, it's just too sad
Don't die for me, you have to live
Tonight

Tonight
I'll fight
Tonight

Should have hit with my first shot
But the beam made it go wide
Have to wait now since the gun is fried
And that would of been the end
But you stepped in to defend
The deadly laser's melting you

So live
Please live, for me

Just live
I'll take the shot
I'll kill this thing tonight
But it's worthless if you don't live tonight

Tonight
I'll fight
Tonight

Don't let your last words be "goodbye" tonight
Please be alright
Just make it through tonight
Open your hatch, you have to see the night
Tonight
It's beautiful, treasure it all your life
Tonight
You say you don't know what to do
Tonight
So smile now, and I'll smile too
Tonight, tonight, tonight
Tonight
Tonight...

Author's Note:

I hope you enjoyed reading/singing along with this fic as much as I enjoyed writing it! I plan to have 5 acts, and each will cover roughly 6 episodes of the series. In your review, be sure to mention ideas for song/scene pairings!