Note: These are five songs from "Notre-Dame de Paris" that I rewrote after an epiphany I'd had while driving, a very dangerous thing for a writer... ("Notre-Dame de Paris" is the musical based on Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame.) I couldn't help but think how much the musical reminded me of my book DBZ: And the Greatest of These, and so, with a little work, I rewrote the songs to reflect the characters (Piccolo, Vegeta, and Goku, with Kami as the narrator). I'm working on the sixth, which is a song for Kurenai.
This song is based on "I'm a Priest."
I'M A PRINCE
VegetaI was a happy man until I saw your face
I hid my heart away in some dark secret place
All that power of love, I kept down and I never let go
I had only one goal – to be the strongest the world would ever know
No, I'm a prince – I can't love this girl
Her love is the fire that destroys my world
Against any enemy, I could stand any shock
Straight and proud, a warrior with a heart as cold as rock
Then she stole in my soul and awakened desire
I dream I'm inside her and I wake up on fire
No, I'm a prince – I can't love this girl
Her love, her sweet love, can her love truly fill my world
I let no woman near, I simply did not care
But in the heart of the night I felt the passion flare
I wakened in the night, I could not help but stare
At the woman I held in my arms who lay sleeping there
No, I'm a prince – I can't love this girl
Her love, that dark love, is the power that rules my world
No, I'm a prince – I can't love this girl
Heal me with your touch – don't leave me alone
Only you can turn my heart to flesh from stone
And I'll follow you into death, bid this world good-bye,
To be in Heaven with you, my Kurenai
No, I'm a prince – I can't love this girl
But love, yes to love, is the strength that can change my world
Oh I'm a prince yet I love this girl
This girl