Artist: Various Artists Album: Phantom of the Opera [2004 Soundtrack] (2004) Title: Madame Giry's Tale / The Fairground
Lyrics Madame Giry's Tale / The Fairground[Everything is spoken]
RAOUL Madame Giry, wait. . .
GIRY Please, Monsieur - I know no more than anyone else.
RAOUL That's not true.
GIRY (uneasily) Please, Monsieur, don't ask, there have been too many accidents . . .
RAOUL (ironical) Accidents?! Please, Madame Giry, for all our sakes . . .
GIRY Very well. It was years ago. There was a traveling fair in the city. The gypsies. I was very young, studying to be a ballerina. One of many living in the dormitories of the opera house.
Scary woman: See the wonder from the East!
Cruel man. Come. Come. Come inside. Come and see The Devil's Child.
Cruel man. You damn demon!(Beats) Villain! (beats) Ne'er do-well! (Beats) Libertine! (Beats) Dangerous! (Beats) Hideous! (Beats) Monstrous! (Beats) BEAST! (Beats very hard)
Cruel Man. Behold, Mesdames and messieurs, the Devil's Child!
Man: Murder!
Policeman: Which way?! Man: That way! That way! Policeman: He's getting away!
GIRY: (Narrating the story) I hid him from the world, and its cruelties.
Young Giry. If you stay in here, you are safe.
Young Erik. Thank you so much, young lady.
GIRY: He has known nothing else of life since then except this opera house. I called him Erik. It was his playground and now his artistic domain, he's a genius. He's an architect and designer, he's,composer and a,magician. A genius, Monsieur!
ROUL: But clearly, Madame Giry, genius has turned to madness. |