Andrew Lloyd Webber - Prologue lyrics

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Madame Giry: Phantasma, city of wonders. Mr. Y presents marvelous astonishments, human prodigies. Ha. The Oolala Girl, five performances daily. Christine Daae, the soprano of the century. Gone, all gone

Fleck: Yes, there’s nothing left, nothing but ghosts, but I knew you’d come back, Madame Giry.

Madame Giry: You, you’re still here.

Fleck: Of course we’re still here, the freaks, the monsters, the bizarre. Where else could we exist but here? And after the tragedy, after the master disappeared with the child, after the fire that consumed everything.

Madame Giry: His dream. Our dream.

Fleck: Remember how it was? Remember?

Coney Isle.

Glistening and glimmering

Rising bright

Drenched with light

See it smile

Beckoning and shimmering

All agleam

Like a dream

Fleck and Madame Giry: Every fantasy set free

Sun rising by the sea

Madame Giry: Coney isle

Miracle and miracle

Lead and sound

All around

Mile by mile

Loud and lured and lyrical

Thrill and thrill

Never still

All America was there

Bigger next to billionaire

In they came

Chasing sensation and romance

Eyes aflame

Desperate for pleasure yet unknown

Night and day

Pouring in by a hundreds and thousands

Swept away

As if every desire was made real

That’s the Place That You Ruined, You Fool

Fleck: That’s the place that you ruined, you fool!

Madame Giry: What do you mean?

Fleck: That’s the world you destroyed with your greed

Madame Giry: It wasn’t my fault. I couldn’t have known.

Fleck: Don’t you remember what happened back then, when we, even we, dared to walk among men, when even a Phantom could dream his dark dreams once again.