I can imagine a sort of Switchfoot-Relient K-Friday's Child-Avril Lavigne (mellow acoustic/electric guitar rock ballad) fusion for this song. It's a (rock) song the Phantom might have sung to Christine...it's really long, though, so perhaps it's better if you consider it just a poem, and not try to come up with music. You can sing it, though, if that amuses you (as it does me).
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I wish I could be free
just as you are today
but I am cursed to what you see
to hide myself away
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And all those with God's grace
live their crooked lives
and taunt me with my face
their words cut like knives
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(angrily and bitterly) But my heart is turned to stone
and they don't want me
so I will live alone
to the darkness I will flee
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(softly and sadly) though I wish for light
and secretly beauty
a lit taper in the night
and just someone to love me
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My name is but a curse,
a shadow on the wall,
you all fear as you rehearse,
"will another body fall?"
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They all stare
at my disfigured face
(defiantly) but I don't care!
(softly) have I left the human race?
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I have nothing to my name
but my music and the night
and my passion, its flame
and my desire for light!
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(desperately) Don't leave me here to die!
I've lived alone too long!
Oh, my very soul does cry
to listen to your song
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I know why you chose him
and you sang of your love
I knew my chance was slim
(sadly) but I had always hoped...
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(snapping back) But it was just a dream,
an inane fantasy
things are never as they seem
(angrily, with a sad tinge) So go! Forget about me!
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So I will live in darkness
without you by my side
but I won't love you any less
the pain will not subside
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Without you, I shall die
I will never know the light
(sad softness) but I'll remember how you made me fly
(softer and softer) as I fade into the night...
as I fade into the night...
and you fade into the light...