Warum so weit hinauf English translation
von Andrew Lloyd Webber

RAOUL
Why have you brought me here?

CHRISTINE
We can't go back there!

RAOUL
We must return!

CHRISTINE
He'll kill you!
His eyes will find us there

RAOUL
Christine don't say that,

CHRISTINE
Those eyes that burn!

RAOUL
Don't even think it!

CHRISTINE
And if he has to kill a thousand men

RAOUL
Forget this waking nightmare!


CHRISTINE
The phantom of the opera will kill and kill again

RAOUL (starts shortly after Christine, at the same time)
This phantom is a fabel believe me,
There is no phantom of the opera

CHRISTINE
My god who is this man?
Who hunts to kill

RAOUL (starts shortly after Christine, at the same time)
My god who is this man?
This mask of death

CHRISTINE
I can't excape from him
I never will!

RAOUL (starts shortly after Christine, at the same time)
Who's is that voice you here,
with every breath?

TOGETHER
And in this labyrinth where night is blind
The phantom of the opera is here (Raoul: there)
Inside my (Raoul: your) mind.


RAOUL
There is no phantom of the opera!

CHRISTINE
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 difformed it was hardly a face in that darkness, darkness?

But his voice filled my spirit with a strange sweet sound
In the night there was music in my mind
And through music my soul began to soar
And I've lived as I never lived before

RAOUL (starts shortly before Christine ends)
What you heard was a dream and nothing more

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

RAOUL
Christine, Christine

PHANTOM
Christine