Why Have You Brought Me Here…/Raoul, I’ve Been There… Songtext
von Andrew Lloyd Webber

Why have you brought me here? (Don′t take me back there)
We must return (He'll kill me)
His eyes will find me there (Christine, don′t say that)
Those eyes that burn! (Don't even think it!)

And if he has to kill a thousand men (Forget this waking nightmare)
The Phantom of the Opera will kill (This phantom is a fable)
(Believe me) And kill again
There is no Phantom of the Opera

My God, who is this man (My God, who is this man)
Who hunts to kill? (This mask of death?)
I can't escape from him (Whose is this voice you hear)
I never will! (With every breath?)

And in this labyrinth
Where night is blind
The Phantom of the Opera is here (there)
Inside my (your) mind
There is no Phantom of the Opera


Raoul, I′ve been there
To his world of unending night
To a world where the daylight dissolves into darkness, darkness

Raoul, I′ve seen him!
Can I ever forget that sight?
Can I ever escape from that face?
So distorted, deformed
It was hardly a face in the darkness, darkness

But his voice filled my spirit with a strange, sweet sound
In that night, there was music in my mind!
And through music my soul began to soar!
And I heard, as I'd never heard before...
What you heard was a dream and nothing more

Yet in his eyes, all the sadness of the world
Those pleading eyes, that both threaten and adore

Christine, Christine
Christine...

What was that?