Why Have You Brought Me Here - Andrew Lloyd Webber, "The Phantom Of The Opera" Original London Cast, Steve Barton

RAOUL:

Why have you brought me here?

CHRISTINE:

Can’t go back there!

RAOUL:

We must return!

Christine:

He’ll kill you!

His eyes will find us there!

RAOUL:

Christine, don’t say that.

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CHRISTINE:

Those eyes that burn!

RAOUL:

Don’t even think it.

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CHRISTINE:

And if he has to kill

a thousand men —

RAOUL:

Forget this waking nightmare.

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CHRISTINE:

The Phantom of the Opera will kill.

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RAOUL:

This phantom is a fable.

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Believe me.

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CHRISTINE:

.. .

and kill again!

RAOUL:

There is no Phantom of the Opera.

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CHRISTINE:

My God, who is this man.

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RAOUL:

My God, who is this man.

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CHRISTINE:

.. .

who hunts to kill.

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RAOUL:

.. .

this mask of death.

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CHRISTINE:

I can’t escape from him.

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RAOUL:

Whose is this voice you hear.

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CHRISTINE:

.. .I never will!

RAOUL:

.. .

with every breath.

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BOTH:

And in this

labyrinth,

where night is blind

the Phantom of the Opera

is here:

inside your/my mind.

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RAOUL:

There is no Phantom of the Opera.

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CHRISTINE:

Raoul, I’ve been there —

to his world of unending night.

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To a world where

the daylight dissolves

into darkness.

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darkness.

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Raoul, I’ve seen him!

Can I ever

forget that sight?

Can I ever

escape from that face?

So distorted,

deformed, it was hardly a face,

in that darkness.

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darkness.

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But his voice

filled my spirit

with a strange, sweet sound.

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In that night

there was music

in my mind.

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And through music

my soul began

to soar!

And I heard

as I’d never

heard before.

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RAOUL:

What you heard

was a dream

and nothing more.

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CHRISTINE:

Yet in his eyes

all the sadness

of the world.

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Those pleading eyes,

that both threaten

and adore.

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RAOUL:

Christine.

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Christine.. .

PHANTOM:

Christine.

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