Beneath A Moonless Sky

CHRISTINE: So it was all an empty lie
One final lie to fool us all
To make your death, our stories end
To put your life beyond recall
How dare you come and claim me now
Invade my life

PHANTOM: If you could know the pain I've known
Then you would know I had no choice
My Christine
CHRISTINE: Your Christine?
I was yours one brief night long ago
Long ago, with a man that I know longer know
PHANTOM: Ah, Christine!
You came and found where I hid
Don't you deny that you did
That long ago night

CHRISTINE:that night
Once there was a night
Beneath a moonless sky
Too dark to see a thing
Too dark to even try

CHRISTINE:I stole to your side
to tell you i must go
I couldn't see your face
Yet sensed you even so
And I touched you

PHANTOM:And I felt you
BOTH:And I heard those ravishing refrains
CHRISTINE:The music of your pulse
PHANTOM:The singing in your veins

CHRISTINE:And I held you
PHANTOM:And I touched you
CHRISTINE:And embraced you
PHANTOM:And I felt you

BOTH:And with every breath and every sigh
CHRISTINE:I felt no longer scared
PHANTOM:I felt no longer shy
BOTH:At last our feelings bared
Beneath a moonless sky

CHRISTINE:And blind in the dark
As soul gazed into soul
I looked into your heart
And saw you pure and whole

PHANTOM:Cloaked under the night
With nothing to suppress
A woman and a man
No more and yet no less

PHANTOM:And I kissed you
CHRISTINE:And caressed you
BOTH:And the world around us fell away
We said things in the dark
We never dared to say

PHANTOM:And I caught you
CHRISTINE:And I kissed you
PHANTOM:And I took you
CHRISTINE:And I begged you

BOTH:With a need too urgent to deny
And nothing mattered then
Except for you and I
Again and then again
Beneath a moonless sky

PHANTOM:And when it was done
before the sun could rise
Ashamed of what I was, afraid to see your eyes
I stood while you slept
And whispered a goodbye
And slipped into the dark beneath a moonless sky

CHRISTINE:And I loved you
Yes, I loved you
I'd have followed anywhere you led
I woke to swear my love
And found you gone instead!

PHANTOM:And I loved you
CHRISTINE:(and I loved you)
PHANTOM:And I left you
CHRISTINE:(how I loved you)

Phantom:And I had to, both of us knew why
CHRISTINE:We both knew why
BOTH:And yet I won't regret
From now until I die
The night I can't forget
Beneath a moonless sky