Scene three: Down Once More
(Erik sets Christine down and looks at her, she looks at him but then her gaze wanders around his lair. It was just as she remembered. Only better, because this time it wasn't a memory)
Christine: Father once spoke of an angel
I used dream he'd appear
Now as I sing I can sense him
And I know he's here
Erik: Christine, why have you returned to me? Why have you returned to this dungeon?
Christine: In sleep he sang to me
In dreams he came
That voice which calls to me
And speaks my name
And now I dream again
For I'd like to find
The Phantom of the Opera always there
Inside my mind
(Erik sits down at the organ and takes over the accompaniment)
Erik: Sing once again with me
Our strange duet
My power over you
Grows stronger yet
And though you returned to me
You glance behind
The Phantom of the Opera is here
No more inside
Christine: Those who have seen your face
Draw back in fear
Take off the mask you wear
Erik: For now you're here
Both: Your spirit and my voice/ my spirit and your voice
In one combined
The Phantom of the Opera is here
No more to hid
Erik: In all your fantasies
You never knew
That though you left me here
Christine: I've longed for you
Both: And in this labyrinth
Where night is blind
The Phantom of the Opera is here
Not in your/my mind
(Erik stops playing the organ and looks over at Christine who is still standing on the shore, still wet. He goes over to her and is silent for a moment.)
Erik: Come, let's get you out of those wet cloths. You'll catch a cold that way.
(Erik leads the way through a secret passageway up to Christine's old dressing room. Christine picks out a few dresses and then they go down back to Erik's lair. On the way down he smiles and starts to sing.)
Erik: Down once more to the dungeon of my black despair,
Down we plunge to the prison of my mind,
Down that path into darkness deep as hell
Christine: Say you'll share with me one love one life time
Let me lead you from your solitude
Share each day with me each night each morning
Say you love me
Erik: You know I do
Both: Love me that's all I ask of you.