Prelude lyrics - Frankenstein: A New Musical

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Album lyrics:
  1. Act 1
  2. Prelude
  3. A Golden Age A Golden Age Video
  4. Find Your Way Home Find Your Way Home Video
  5. Amen Amen Video
  6. Birth To My Creation
  7. 1:15 A.M. 1:15 A.M. Video
  8. Dear Victor
  9. The Hands of Time The Hands of Time Video
  10. Your Father's Eyes Your Father's Eyes Video
  11. The Creature's Tale (Pt. 1)  The Creature's Tale (Pt. 1)  Video
  12. The Waking Nightmare The Waking Nightmare Video
  13. The Creature's Tale (Pt. 2)  The Creature's Tale (Pt. 2)  Video
  14. The Music of Love The Music of Love Video
  15. The Creature's Tale (Pt. 3)  The Creature's Tale (Pt. 3)  Video
  16. Why? Why? Video
  17. The Proposition
  18. Act 2
  19. A Happier Day A Happier Day Video
  20. The Modern Prometheus The Modern Prometheus Video
  21. The Workings of The Heart The Workings of The Heart Video
  22. These Hands
  23. The Chase 
  24. The Coming of The Dawn
  25. Amen (Reprise) 

Prelude lyrics

Prelude


WALTON (speaking)
Captain Robert Walton, in a letter to his sister - November 9th, 1793.
It was just north of the Arctic Circle that I discovered adrift, on a floe of ice
beside our ship, a wretch, near death.
In the days that followed he would tell me a tale strange and horrifying:
his life - a twisted path of destruction, his deeds - almost too incredible to recount.

FRANKENSTEIN
I am the innocent
I am the damned.

WALTON (speaking)
I alone know the heart of this man...

FRANKENSTEIN
A fount of delusion
A father of dreams.

WALTON (speaking)
...for I am still haunted by the faces of those he loved...

ALPHONSE FRANKENSTEIN
His adoring father, who could see in him only greatness.

CAROLINE BEAUFORT
The mother, whose loving spirit he could not bear to lose.

WILLIAM FRANKENSTEIN
The young brother, who worshipped him.

JUSTINE MORITZ
And the faithful servant, who understood why.

FRANKENSTEIN
I am not a madman!

HENRY CLERVAL
The soul who was his dearest friend in life.

WALTON
And the woman who, from their childhood days, had been his -

ELIZABETH
- one true love.

FRANKENSTEIN
I can hear my name!

WALTON
His story is the prophecy of nightmares.

FRANKENSTEIN
Blackened by my crime!

JUSTINE MORITZ
Yet it must be told.

FRANKENSTEIN
Haunting me and taunting
As it echoes through all time...

WALTON
His name... is Frankenstein.

[Indescript echoing by various characters]

[Thanks to Eponine for lyrics]
Last Update: June, 10th 2013


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