Letras de Before the Performance

Gustave, could you hand me those earrings?
The diamond ones on the left
There. How do I look?

You look so beautiful
So very beautiful
Like a queen in a book
You two 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 a while?

May I go exploring by myself?

Yes, but stay backstage, my dear
When I'm finished, meet me here

I will

Since our wedding day
Things have gone astray
I′m not proud of the way that I′ve acted

We've both been-

The demands I′ve made
All the 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

Do you mean it, Raoul? Truly?

I've booked a passage for three to Cherbourg on the Atlantic Queen
It leaves in an hour, we′ll have just enough time
Now I beg you, let's be on it for both our sakes
And the child's
Leave this place behind

He knows his love is not enough
He knows he isn′t what you need
He knows 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

Once 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
Oh, fill us, complete us
Make us whole
Seal our bond forevermore
Tonight for me
Embrace your destiny

Let me hear you sing once more

Miss Daaé, it′s time

Twisted every way
What answer can I give?
I know I can't refuse
And yet I wish I could, oh God

Christine, Christine
Don't think that I don′t care
But every hope and every prayer
Rests on you now