Before The Performance

Gustave, will you hand me those earrings?
 The sapphires on the left?
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 How do I look?
 You look so beautiful, so very beautiful
 Like a queen in a book
 You too are beautiful, so very beautiful
 Once this performance is through
 We'll spend some time, just us two
 Won't that be fun?
 Father! Doesn't mother look lovely tonight?
 Indeed she does... as lovely as she looked the very first time
 I came to her dressing room door
 And look at you Raoul!
 You look just like that handsome boy in the opera box
 The one who would always toss me a single red rose
 Please Gustave, if you don't mind
 Would you wait outside awhile?
 But when's mother going to sing?
 I don't want to miss it!
 Go and wait backstage my dear
 Soon Papa will fetch you there
 You can both watch from the wings
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 Since our wedding day
 Things have gone astray
 Raoul
 I'm not proud of the way that I've acted
 We've both been
 The demands I've made!
 All our hopes mislaid!
 I'm aware of the price they've exacted
 Though I've no right to ask you to
 There's one thing more I'd have you do
 If you love me as I love you
 Anything darling
 Don't sing the song dear
 What? But Raoul
 You have to know something's terribly wrong dear
 But I have to do this!
 It's what we agreed to
 That Hell-spawned demon
 He's had us playing his game all along dear
 Let me just get through this
 Listen please, I need to
 You need so much, it's true
 And I've denied you
 You need the man you knew
 Back here beside you
 You'll have him back, I vow
 Just ask it of me
 But we must leave here now
 If you still love me
 But, darling I'm due on stage in ten minutes!
 How can I possibly amend
 I beg you, please! Please!
 I have passage for three to Schoenberg on the Atlantic Queen
 It leaves tonight-let's be on it!
 For both our sakes... and for Gustave
 Leave this place behind
 Go and find Gustave
 Tell the stage manager to not to disturb me
 I need some time
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 You know his love is not enough
 You know it isn't what you need
 You know you're made of finer stuff
 I think on that, we're all agreed
 It's time to leave him in the dust
 It's time to be who you should be
 It's time to do now as you must
 And set the music in you free
 In moments, mere moments
 Drums will roll
 There you'll stand, just like before
 The crowd will hush
 And then in one sweet rush
 I will hear you sing once more
 And music, our music
 Will swell and then unwind
 Like two strands of melody
 At last entwined
 Fulfill us, complete us
 Make us whole
 Seal our bond forevermore
 Tonight, for me, embrace your destiny
 Let me hear you sing
 Once more!
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 Five minutes Miss Daae!
 
 Twisted every way
 What answer can I give?
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 I know I can't refuse
 And yet, I wish I could
 Oh God
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 Christine, Christine
 Don't think that I don't care
 But every hope, and every prayer
 Rests on you now!