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A rumour was whispered
In fear to the dancers
They crept to the arms of La Sorelli
Black cloak and deaths head
As Buquet described him
In the third cellar slung from a beam
Joseph found hanging
He was sent with a voice from God
He who haunts the halls
All alone
Superstition ran deep in La Sorelli
Monsieurs Poligny and Debienne
The managers last night, shrouded in death
So they left the house in the hands
Of the new owners, Richard and Montcharmin
The book of instructions passed on to them
Follow the rules or so God help thee
He was sent with a voice from God
He who haunts the halls All alone
A mischief abounds
Make sure and obey article 63
Stay away from box five
Stay away
20,000 francs paid in full each month
Sealed and sent to the ghost
On their desk a letter was found
A frayed page with the script of a child
What fools do they think we are?
My dear managers, you have broken the rules
If you want us to live in peace then keep box five free
Three knocks on an empty box
Four francs, sometimes six
Even flowers left in his stead
So rent out box five, they demanded in anger
With those cursed five words spoken
Doomed was the business they ran
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The New Margeurite
04:33
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On the stage she stood
Enthralled by the applause
Euphoric
From within his box
Count De Chagny, Raoul
Was swept back to his youth
In the role of Juliet
She led the crowd above
The graves of those lovers doomed
That night she was crowned
The queen of the hall
The new Margeurite
All too much she fainted in the arms
Of her companions
Christine collapsed on that stage
Raoul’s heart was no longer his
Deepest pain
Standing in the hall disconnected
Scarcely breathing with his ear to the door
Erik’s words bruised his soul
In the role of Juliet
She travelled to the stars
Angels wept that night
The boy that she once knew
Discovered love and hate
In the same evening
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No more,would she perform
For society
Desperate and lonely, Raoul lost all hope.
Then came the note
On the morrow
For Peros-Guirec I leave.
I have not forgotten thee
This day, marks my father’s death
My sacred duty must be kept
Over mountains thick with fog
He travelled through the night
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A visit To Box Five
02:11
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If you sing tonight
Regret will poison your heart
When you begin to sing
A misfortune worse than death
From box five
The owners watched
Carlotta’s voice once serene
Now reduced to a shriek
Erik’s voice they heard
Right there in box five
With the way she sings tonight
The chandelier won’t hold for long
Down it came
And smashed ones skull
In box five the owners wept
Erik’s work was done
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Terror In The Graveyard
02:15
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Lying there in the gloom alone
He tortured himself with doubt
Overwhelmed with a lovesick grief
He swallowed wine to numb the pain
Yet still she shuns me
Oh what have I done?
I refuse to bow out gracefully
Restless, the dream world denied
Footsteps he heard from her room
What does she seek at this time
Her pale white form fled like mist
Through the sleeping town
Yet still she shuns me
Oh what have I done?
I refuse to bow out gracefully
What little I remember
An unearthly apparition
In the graveyard she knelt in the snow
Crossed herself and prayed for it to end
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At The Masked Ball
03:55
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That night left scars
Carlotta ill, Christine disappeared
Raoul’s sorrow reached new heights
He found solace in the opium pipe
In the midst of silence he stood
The pale night and his heart grew cold.
Just twenty one
He thought of death
And the pain it would end
As he held the noose
She sent for him
At the masked ball
We will meet my friend
The kindness quickly rekindled his hope
to find out about a truth untold.
Like snow on the first day of spring
His hate disappeared
He donned a suit of silken white
And chased the remnants in his tar stained pipe
As a storm crawled close he slipped into the hall
By the staircase she took him by the hand
Afraid of losing her
In the crushing waves of madness.
In the wake of his guide
His grudge gone when he saw
Gruesome gold letters
Mark the red death stalking abroad.
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She forbade him to follow
And said farewell
In her room he found himself again
Then the door opened
With a deafening creak
There she was
The queen of the hall herself
In the boudoir he hid
He wanted to know
Wanted to see
Wanted to solve
The mystery
Closer and closer a soft singing came
Maddening him
Here I am Erik, she said
I am now ready
Singing from the walls, a pagan hymn
In the mirror swirling round
Twenty Christine’s
Body and image finally touched
And merged together
Swallowed by the mirror, how had she gone
And the walls kept repeating
To me? To whom?
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Sorrow In G minor
02:02
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Her Final Act
05:06
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He stumbled through the streets
With no dope to dull the blow
She was there it was no delusion
To the roof she led him up
This golden ring I wear
Not the product of love but fear
On this night we must depart
From his cold and wicked touch
From his sleep he was roused
Red eyes on the balcony
His pistol quickly he drew
And sent a shot across the room
Her final act, she vanished
For the swansong of Christine
Every seat in the house was filled
My spirit, longs with thee
To rest
One last night she swore to Erik
And damned if her word not kept
The promise would she dare to break
She was stolen once again from him
Into this hellish underworld, Raoul must go
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The Persian
03:03
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Born in Rouen,
Erik’s cursed face they feared
He exhibited himself
Across Europe as a freak at fairs
A living corpse, he earned his keep
Also adept as a ventriloquist
He shared his skill, the greatest voice
His reputation reached, Marendaram
Boredom scratched the sultan
He demanded entertainment
A palace he ordered built
Erik laid out the plans
Then the shah sent Daroga
To blind the architect
The order he could not undertake
The Persian assisted with his escape
And he himself, was exiled
What a fool he was that day
For not stabbing him there and then.
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Erik's Lament
12:20
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A Punjab lasso
From an iron tree hung
Filled with fear
The Persian now knew where they were
The torture chamber
Mirrors reflected the sun
Scorching their flesh, blistered and raw
On the floor a trapdoor found
As they bent lower into the ground
Down a dark and dirty staircase
Into a cellar
A cellar filled with old oak kegs
The stopper prised, they gazed inside
But wine was not what they held
The threat was real
He threatened to kill everyone
Lest his hand in marriage I took
Till eleven I have to choose
Twixt a wedding or funeral
And so in going down
They reached the darkest depths
Trickling through their fingers
Gunpowder soft and lethal
To the heart of the hall they went
Erik’s threats they heard were real
If your answer is still no
Then the hall will be no more
He threatened to kill everyone
Gone completely mad with love
Till eleven I have to choose
Twixt a wedding or funeral
Choose wisely my dear
The scorpion, or the acridid
Your refusal will mean
Annihilation, for all of us
The scorpion, she turned flooding the room
And honour the bargain she would
To Erik she gave herself
A living wife, he kissed her she did not die
The golden ring she lost
There in the palm of his hand
This will be my wedding gift
From poor unhappy Erik
You are free, go now take him and leave
Those words ripped shreds
From a heart held by a thread
I made her swear, when I died
She would be there
And bury me by the lake
With the ring in secrecy
Yes she was waiting for me
Alive, a living fiancé
When shy as a child I came
Towards her, she did not sway
No, no, she stayed, waited for me
You cannot know how it felt
When even my mother scorned me
His lungs half filled with water
Raoul was sure death came for him
Christine held him up
Hand in hand they left
They fled, from the dark
Recovering in his room
One night the Persian woke
By the fire a figure loomed
There’s not long left for me
I set them free
On a train northbound they leave
I have lived an evil life
This is my redemption
Forgive me, for all the pain I’ve caused
He was sent with a voice from god
He who haunts the halls
All alone he will die
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