Andrew Lloyd Webber — “Please Miss Giry I Want to Go Back...”

GUSTAVE: Please, Miss Giry I want to go back I want my mother MEG: The world is hard The world is mean It's hard to keep Your conscience clean GUSTAVE: (Please, you're hurting me!) MEG: The sea is calm The sea is gray It washes Everything away GUSTAVE: (I can't swim!) MEG: (Don't worry, it's almost over.) Sink into the deep Blue and cool and kind Then drift off to sleep Let the past unwind Leave the hurt behind CHRISTINE: (Gustave!) GUSTAVE: (Mother!) MEG: (No, I'm not done yet!) PHANTOM: (Let go of the boy, now!) MEG: Not another step PHANTOM: (Let go of him, girl, or I promise you - !) MEG: (Not another word!) Always wondered How to make you watch Well, watch me now I took a little trip to Coney Island I took a little trip because of you I did as Mother said and followed where you led And tried to do what little I could do Well, here's the way it works on Coney Island They make you pay for every little crumb I gave what they would take, I gave it for your sake Now look at me and see what I've become Bathing beauty on the beach Bathing beauty in her dressing room Bathing beauty in the dark On their laps, in their arms, in their beds MADAME GIRY: Meg, my little Meg... PHANTOM: (What are you saying?) MEG: Who helped you raise the money? Who helped the permits come through? Who greased the wheels of your high flying deals Bought you time when the bills came due? Who swayed the local bosses? Curried favor with the press? No, not her And who kept singing, desperate for your favor? Who kept dancing, hoping you would save her? Who kept dying? And this is what you gave her? Now that I've got your attention at last Here's the big finish, and then you can go! PHANTOM: Give me the gun, Meg Give me the hurt and the pain and the gun, Meg Give me the blame for not seeing the things That you've done, Meg Give me the gun, Meg Give me the chance to see you clear at last MEG: See me clear at last PHANTOM: You feel ugly, you feel used You feel broken, you feel bruised Ah, but me, I can see all the beauty underneath MEG: (Yes...) PHANTOM: You've been robbed of love and pride Been ignored and pushed aside Even so, I still know there is beauty underneath MEG: (Yes...) PHANTOM: Diamonds never sparkle bright If they aren't set just right Beauty sometimes goes unseen We can't all be like Christine MEG: (Christine, Christine... Always Christine!) *Meg fires the gun and shoots Christine* (No, I didn't mean to!) GUSTAVE: (Mother dear! Say something! Say anything!) PHANTOM: (Giry, go get help! Go!) GUSTAVE: (Where's Papa? He should be here! Where's Papa?) CHRISTINE: (Your father, your real father...) Look with your heart and not with your eyes The heart understands, the heart never lies Believe what it feels and trust what it shows Look with your heart, the heart always knows Love is not always beautiful Not at the start GUSTAVE: So open your arms CHRISTINE: And close your eyes tight GUSTAVE: Look with your heart CHRISTINE: And when you find love... GUSTAVE: (No!) PHANTOM: Once upon another time, our story had only begun I had a taste of joy, the most I ever knew Now there isn't any time and somehow our story is done And what about the boy, what am I to do? CHRISTINE: Just love, just live And give what we can give And take the love that you deserve CHRISTINE/PHANTOM: Just love, just live PHANTOM: And give all that I have And take what little I deserve CHRISTINE: Come closer, I beg you Closer still Remember love never dies Kiss me one last time PHANTOM: [only in the Australian version] Love never dies Love never falters Once it has spoken Love is yours Love never dies Love will continue