(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,

Deformed, it

Was hardly a face,

In that darkness . . .

Darkness . . .

(trancelike, then becoming more and more ecstatic)

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 . . .

(Raoul)

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) (comforting)

Christine . . .

Christine . . .

(Phantom) (unseen, a ghostly echo of raoul's words)

Christine . . .