Sutton Foster - An Operatic Tragedy lyrics

[Jo, spoken] It's a mean and stormy night The moors are bleak and bloody Thunder claps! Lightning strikes! The fair Clarissa, her clothes in disarray Races across the wild coastal heath (sung) Now she stops, now she runs! Will she escape, will she be caught? (spoken) With bold determination, the villainous aristocrat Braxton Prendergast, lurches for her (sung) There's no escape She's but a child And yet she turns to fight With eyes ablaze This noble girl Meets his gaze Unafraid She will not be defiled! [Clarissa/Jo, spoken] Keep away from me you wretch! [Braxton/Jo, spoken] I cannot keep away Your beauty draws me Your pa**ion ignites me [Braxton, sung] I've got to hold you [Clarissa] I defy you! [Braxton] Got to have you [Clarissa] Let me by you! [Braxton] Come close- [Clarissa] Don't come too close- [Braxton] Come close- [Clarissa] Don't come too close- [Braxton & Clarissa] So close, so close to me [Braxton, spoken] I'll have her, and the mother too [Jo, spoken] And at that moment, Rodrigo appears in magnificent splendor! [Rodrigo/Jo, spoken] Unhand that woman, villain! [Braxton, spoken] Spoken: Who are you? [Rodrigo/Jo] I am your destiny, your bitterest foe You stole what was rightly mine ten long years ago You left me cold, alone and forgotten Now I'm back to settle the score [Professor Bhaer, spoken] Miss March!