[CHRISTINE]
So it was all an empty lie
One final lie to fool us all
To make your d**h our story's end
To put your life beyond recall
How dare you come and claim me now?
Invade my life, ensnare my voice
[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 no longer know
[PHANTOM]
Ah, Christine
You came and found where I hid
Don't you deny that you did
That long ago 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 you side
Tormented by my choice
I couldn't see your face
Yet trembled at your voice
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
[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
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
As 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 good-bye
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
[PHANTOM]
And now?
[CHRISTINE]
How can you talk of now? For us... there is no now.