The Phantom of the Opera movie - Notes/Prima Donna lyrics
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ANDRE & FIRMIN<br>
Prima donna first lady of the stage!<br>
Your devotees are on their knees to implore you!<br>
Can you bow out when they're shouting your name?<br>
Think of how they all adore you!<br>
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Prima donna, enchant us once again!<br>
Think of your muse... And of the queues round the theatre!<br>
Can you deny us the triumph in store?<br>
Sing, prima donna, once more!<br>
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RAOUL<br>
Christine spoke of an angel...<br>
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CARLOTTA<br>
Prima donna, your song shall live again!<br>
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ANDRE & FIRMIN<br>
Think of your public!<br>
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CARLOTTA<br>
You took a snub, but there's a public who needs you!<br>
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MME. GIRY <br>
She has heard the voice of the angel of music...<br>
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ANDRE & FIRMIN<br>
Those who hear your voice liken you to an angel!<br>
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CARLOTTA <br>
Think of their cry of undying support!<br>
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ANDRE<br>
We get our opera<br>
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CARLOTTA<br>
Follow where the limelight leads you!<br>
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FIRMIN<br>
She gets her limelight!<br>
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ANDRE & FIRMIN<br>
Leading ladies are a trial!<br>
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CARLOTTA<br>
Prima donna, your song shall never die!<br>
You'll sing again, and to unending ovation!<br>
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RAOUL<br>
Orders! Warnings!Lunatic demands!<br>
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ANDRE & FIRMIN<br>
Tears... oaths... lunatic demands are regular occurrences!<br>
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CARLOTTA<br>
Think how you'll shine in that final encore!<br>
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ANDRE & FIRMIN<br>
Surely there'll be further scenes worse than this!<br>
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RAOUL <br>
Think, before these demands are rejected!<br>
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ANDRE & FIRMIN<br>
Who'd believe a diva happy to relieve a chorus girl,<br>
who's gone and slept with the patron?<br>
Raoul and the soubrette,<br>
entwined in love's duet!<br>
Although he may demur,<br>
he must have been with her!<br>
You'd never get away with all this in a play,<br>
but if it's loudly sung and in a foreign tongue<br>
it's just the sort of story audiences adore,<br>
in fact a perfect opera!<br>
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ALL<br>
Prima donna the world is at your feet!<br>
A nation waits, and how it hates to be cheated!<br>
Light up the stage with that age old rapport!<br>
Sing, prima donna, once more!<br>
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[Thanks to Sam for corrections]<br>
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