Beethoven's Last Night: The Complete Narrated Version

2012
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  1. Overture
  2. Midnight NarrationLyrics

    Midnight Narration

    Since the time when Ra and Isis
    Raised the sphinx out of the sand
    And Apollo dreamed Athena
    And men began to understand

    That when darkness folds on darkness
    In the restless tides of night
    And lightning raises shadows
    And for moments, gives them life

    It's been said by those who ponder
    That it surely is a sign
    That a life touched by the stars
    Is now running out of time

    And that somewhere in that darkness
    In the heart of that great storm
    The world returns a soul
    That the gods caused to be born

    And this was such a storm
    The kind one rarely sees in life
    For in a room now filled with shadows
    The Great Beethoven was spending
    His last night

    Now gathered around him there
    Were the ghosts from out his past
    For in the play unfolding there, this night
    They, would be the cast

    And there among these shadows
    Was the beautiful Spirit of Fate
    Who had arrived with her dwarf son, Twist
    And with the other ghosts did watch and wait



    Midnight


    And in the dark he sits alone
    To watch his final hours bleeding
    While unconcerned upon the wall
    The clock it ticks away the time

    No need for words, for in the dark
    All words have long since lost their meaning
    Still when they whisper in his ear
    He tries to read between the lines

    What I see in the night
    What I feel in your heart
    All your dreams all your lies
    Can you tell them apart

    See the hands on the clock
    Are you watching them turn
    For your candle’s quite low
    We've been watching it burn

    Do you lie here awake
    As the shadows look on
    Should they cry for your sake
    Should you sleep in their arms

    For the shadows see all
    And they rarely forget
    Every dream that you've had
    Every act you regret
  3. MidnightLyrics

    Midnight

    And in the dark he sits alone
    To watch his final hours bleeding
    While unconcerned upon the wall
    The clock it ticks away the time

    No need for words, for in the dark
    All words have long since lost their meaning
    Still when they whisper in his ear
    He tries to read between the lines

    What I see in the night
    What I feel in your heart
    All your dreams all your lies
    Can you tell them apart

    See the hands on the clock
    Are you watching them turn
    For your candle’s quite low
    We've been watching it burn

    Do you lie here awake
    As the shadows look on
    Should they cry for your sake
    Should you sleep in their arms

    For the shadows see all
    And they rarely forget
    Every dream that you've had
    Every act you regret
  4. FateLyrics

    Fate

    Faith and belief
    And retreat
    When you're standing all alone
    With your dreams in the dark

    Never knowing what is real
    In the shadows you meet
    Never knowing what is true
    In the answers you seek
    Never knowing if

    Fate, she hears me
    Fate, stand near me
    Fate, state clearly
    Whether there will be another card

    Retrieve us
    Time deceives us
    Faith she hears us
    But she doesn't listen very hard

    As she drifts through our lives
    Tossing coins into the air
    Watch them twist
    Watch them fall
    Turning hope into despair

    Watch them twist
    Watch them fall
    Then she suddenly revives
    Every dream that we've had
    And we find ourselves alive

    Believe me
    Fate, stands near me
    Fate, state clearly
    Whether there will be another card

    Receive us
    Time deceives us
    The only moment in our lives
    That ever really mattered, fate is now
  5. What Good This Deafness NarrationLyrics

    What Good This Deafness Narration

    So upon this night, the darkness humbled
    Candles sputtered, spirits grumbled
    Brooding in this bitter room
    What Fate had woven on her loom
    While shadows fed upon the gloom

    But as these spirits talked and chattered
    With all their thoughts quite widely scattered
    On things that no one else thought mattered
    Beethoven, who was as you know, quite deaf
    Heard all their words with deep regret
    And wished that he was deafer yet



    What Good This Deafness


    (Beethoven)

    What good this deafness
    That my whole life I have dread
    What good this deafness
    With these voices in my head

    What good this deafness
    If this prattle I must hear
    If I were blind I'm sure they wouldn't disappear

    (Twist)

    Did you really want to believe what you're saying
    Did you really want to be here alone
    Have I interrupted a moment of praying
    While your life's decaying
    Your sins are they weighing
    While you've been carving your stone
    All on your own

    Did you really want to sit here in silence
    Could it be that brooding is part of your art
    Is it an extension of artistic license
    A moody defiance
    Of all of life's tyrants
    While you've been searching your heart
    Alone with us in the dark
  6. What Good This DeafnessLyrics

    What Good This Deafness

    (Beethoven)

    What good this deafness
    That my whole life I have dread
    What good this deafness
    With these voices in my head

    What good this deafness
    If this prattle I must hear
    If I were blind I'm sure they wouldn't disappear

    (Twist)

    Did you really want to believe what you're saying
    Did you really want to be here alone
    Have I interrupted a moment of praying
    While your life's decaying
    Your sins are they weighing
    While you've been carving your stone
    All on your own

    Did you really want to sit here in silence
    Could it be that brooding is part of your art
    Is it an extension of artistic license
    A moody defiance
    Of all of life's tyrants
    While you've been searching your heart
    Alone with us in the dark
  7. Mephistopheles NarrationLyrics

    Mephistopheles Narration

    Beethoven then begged
    For these shadows to take their leave
    That they had no business being there
    But the shadows, they disagreed

    For no matter how Beethoven implored
    For these shadows to leave him alone
    They chattered on and would not be gone
    From his one-man catacomb

    Then Twist explained how it was
    That they could not do as the composer wished
    For since they were his shadows
    It was only by his light they could exist

    And as Beethoven’s life was fading
    On this, his final night
    It was only natural that these shadows
    Should cling closer to his fading light

    Now, meanwhile, the clock, it just ticked on
    As clocks are known to do
    For time’s their only purpose
    Their only point of view

    But when that clock struck midnight
    Its chimes both loud and clear
    From out of those shifting shadows
    A final figure did appear

    His voice, it had a certain charm
    That concealed all his disease
    As he introduced himself to them
    As thee, Mephistopheles

    He said he had come to collect
    The Great Beethoven’s soul
    He said it wasn’t much, you see
    “Merely, a lump of coal”

    “You look surprised, my dear composer
    This simple fact to learn
    But before tomorrow morning
    Together, we will watch it burn”

    Beethoven stepped back in horror
    “This thing cannot be true!
    I have done no great wrongs in life
    At least none that I knew”

    “Men quite often forget their sins”
    The Devil did reply
    “Until it’s too late to repent,
    Forgetting it’s never too late to die
    It’s part of human nature
    Upon which I’ve come strongly, to rely

    Men quite often forget their sins
    For redemption can always wait
    And I always allow this to happen
    It’s an important part of my bait
    For by the time they remember
    It always tends to be…too late

    Now, you may think your sins are minor
    To enter Hell, they’re not enough
    Well, a cruel act, a rude word there
    Believe me, they add up

    And rising from the shadows
    Is the specter of your death
    For since your birth he has been owed
    And now is here to clear the debt
    But perhaps we can talk a little while
    For you are not dead…not yet”

    The cloaked figure of death rises from the floor. He offers Beethoven a bony hand. The composer backs away in terror as Mephistopheles sympathetically offers advice.



    Mephistopheles


    All of your life now
    You have denied
    There'd be a time
    When you'd ever die
    Still it's been rumored this thing must be

    Why is it then that you act surprised
    When I appear now to be your guide
    Why do you hesitate to follow me

    See it rising
    Stare and wonder
    Hear it beckon
    You to dance

    Feel it hold you
    Take you under
    I'm your god of second chance

    And now you claim you are not prepared
    So much to do, you cannot be spared
    Still, your entreaties death will not hear

    The graveyard is filled with important men
    Who could not be spared but were in the end
    And so I whisper now, in your ear

    See it rising
    Stare and wonder
    Hear it beckon
    You to dance

    Feel it hold you
    Take you under
    I'm your god of second chance

    Domine,
    Domine,
    Domine,
    Domine,
    O Domine
    O Domine
    O Domine
    O Domine
  8. MephistophelesLyrics

    Mephistopheles

    All of your life now
    You have denied
    There'd be a time
    When you'd ever die
    Still it's been rumored this thing must be

    Why is it then that you act surprised
    When I appear now to be your guide
    Why do you hesitate to follow me

    See it rising
    Stare and wonder
    Hear it beckon
    You to dance

    Feel it hold you
    Take you under
    I'm your god of second chance

    And now you claim you are not prepared
    So much to do, you cannot be spared
    Still, your entreaties death will not hear

    The graveyard is filled with important men
    Who could not be spared but were in the end
    And so I whisper now, in your ear

    See it rising
    Stare and wonder
    Hear it beckon
    You to dance

    Feel it hold you
    Take you under
    I'm your god of second chance

    Domine,
    Domine,
    Domine,
    Domine,
    O Domine
    O Domine
    O Domine
    O Domine
  9. What Is Eternal NarrationLyrics

    What Is Eternal Narration

    “I cannot die upon this night”
    The composer did protest
    “For I must complete my Tenth Symphony
    Before my final rest”

    Backwards
    Till he fell into his chair
    And searched his mind for a reply
    But there were no answers there

    And the Devil said “I see
    That your mind is quite confused
    So I will return here in one hour
    For the answer that you choose
    And you can tell me then
    What you will keep and what you will lose

    The hands of the clock rotate backwards from midnight to eleven PM.

    So tell me now what do you fear
    What do you love or hold too dear
    Is it death well wrapped in pain?
    Or perhaps it’s no one will remember your name?
    If this is so, perhaps I cannot win
    But then add pride onto your other sins

    I am not trying to pressure you
    I know you cannot decide yet
    But nothing focuses the mind my friend
    Like the approach of one’s own death”

    And as he turned to disappear
    Into his personal abyss
    Beethoven called for him to wait
    For something was now amiss

    The hands upon the clock
    It seems were moving much too fast
    And at this rate his hour gift
    Would not an hour last

    “Consider it a final act of kindness”
    Over his shoulder the Devil did call
    “Because where you are going my dear Ludwig
    The clocks they never, move, at all”

    Mephistopheles disappears back into the abyss through a hole in the floor that opens up to receive him.

    With Mephistopheles gone
    The spirits silently crept back
    And watched the great composer agonize
    Over the time that he now lacked

    So in this room now filled with shadows
    Beethoven stood quite alone
    And contemplated how to save
    The one thing he truly ever owned

    Could all the wisdom he had found
    Like so many leaves upon the ground
    Combine with all his dreams and sins
    And on this night be scattered to the wind

    For of our faith they are so insistent
    With gods who are so inconsistent
    And if we are to further delve
    Into this night and find ourselves
    Might we discover in our past
    What in our lives might one day last



    What Is Eternal


    And here in the night
    As I feel the inferno
    I stare in the dark
    Thinking what is eternal

    The man or the moment
    The act or the reason
    These thoughts fill my head
    As I contemplate treason

    Of dreams I have had
    And dreams I have pondered
    When late in the night
    My mind it would wander

    To things I have done
    And then quickly regretted
    While denying vices
    My life had selected

    And I think what I've done
    Or have yet to begin and the man I've become
    And the man that I've been

    Now caught in a waltz
    With the eternal dancer
    I'm courted by death
    But death isn't the answer
    I say

    All I was
    Meant to be
    Could I
    Suddenly
    Just decide
    Not a thought
    Would survive
    Could it be
    My life's worth
    Ended there
    With my birth

    If I could see someone
    Who's been there before me
    And traded his soul
    For a moment of glory

    His penance or mercy
    By spirits debated
    While judged on a scale
    That's been heavily weighted

    And what have I done
    Could there be such a sin
    In this man I've become
    In this man that I've been

    Now calling to God
    From the pit's very bottom
    I pray He forgives
    Every sin I've forgotten
    This day

    And who would have thought
    That my fate it would conjure
    This twist in the road
    On which I have wandered

    Each vision and dream now
    Completely dismembered
    To give one's whole life
    And find nothing's remembered

    And what good is a life
    That leaves nothing behind
    Not a thought or a dream
    That might echo in time

    The years and the hours
    The seconds and minutes
    And everything that
    My life has placed in it
    Betrayed
    Betrayed
    Betrayed

    The things I have done
    The places I've been
    The cost of my dreams
    The weight of my sins

    And everything that
    I've gathered in life
    Could it be lost
    Could it be lost in this
    Could it be lost in this
    Could it be lost in this
    Night
  10. What Is EternalLyrics

    What Is Eternal

    And here in the night
    As I feel the inferno
    I stare in the dark
    Thinking what is eternal

    The man or the moment
    The act or the reason
    These thoughts fill my head
    As I contemplate treason

    Of dreams I have had
    And dreams I have pondered
    When late in the night
    My mind it would wander

    To things I have done
    And then quickly regretted
    While denying vices
    My life had selected

    And I think what I've done
    Or have yet to begin and the man I've become
    And the man that I've been

    Now caught in a waltz
    With the eternal dancer
    I'm courted by death
    But death isn't the answer
    I say

    All I was
    Meant to be
    Could I
    Suddenly
    Just decide
    Not a thought
    Would survive
    Could it be
    My life's worth
    Ended there
    With my birth

    If I could see someone
    Who's been there before me
    And traded his soul
    For a moment of glory

    His penance or mercy
    By spirits debated
    While judged on a scale
    That's been heavily weighted

    And what have I done
    Could there be such a sin
    In this man I've become
    In this man that I've been

    Now calling to God
    From the pit's very bottom
    I pray He forgives
    Every sin I've forgotten
    This day

    And who would have thought
    That my fate it would conjure
    This twist in the road
    On which I have wandered

    Each vision and dream now
    Completely dismembered
    To give one's whole life
    And find nothing's remembered

    And what good is a life
    That leaves nothing behind
    Not a thought or a dream
    That might echo in time

    The years and the hours
    The seconds and minutes
    And everything that
    My life has placed in it
    Betrayed
    Betrayed
    Betrayed

    The things I have done
    The places I've been
    The cost of my dreams
    The weight of my sins

    And everything that
    I've gathered in life
    Could it be lost
    Could it be lost in this
    Could it be lost in this
    Could it be lost in this
    Night
  11. The Moment NarrationLyrics

    The Moment Narration

    For a moment there was silence
    As the storm it hesitated
    And like the shadows in the room
    On his next word it waited

    As Beethoven tried to remember
    The exact moment when he crossed the line
    Did he lose his soul with one cruel act
    Or with little ones that piled up in time

    Then Beethoven wondered
    What one’s soul was worth
    Is the price the same the day we die
    As it is upon our birth?

    Then he turned towards Fate
    There was anger in his eyes
    Could his present plight, upon this night
    Be something she'd devised?

    "Why did you deal me such a hand
    Was it all chance or was it planned
    And as throughout my life you toyed
    Did you regret or just enjoy?”

    Now, Fate, she was quite stunned
    By this unexpected attack
    But she never lost her flawless grace
    As she gently replied back

    “Mephistopheles has made you an offer
    Now I will make one, too
    That you and I go back through your life
    And every act review

    Together we'll go through your years
    This thing I can arrange
    And anything that you wish me to
    This very night I'll change”

    Now, Beethoven thought, “was this a trick?”
    But a trick he could not see
    So he did the only thing he could
    Which was, to this new offer, he agreed

    "Forgive my outburst" Beethoven said,
    “You take kindness to an art
    I will gratefully accept your proposal
    If you'll just tell me where we start"

    "In looking back" Fate replied
    "I see your youth was wild
    But if one really wants to know the man
    One has to know the child"

    And with those words, the room around them
    Did slowly fade away
    Replaced with one from his distant past
    Where, as a youth, he had once played

    And there he saw himself as a young child
    Still a long way from the grave
    Where anything was possible
    And any dream could still be saved

    He was sitting at a piano
    But there was sorrow in his eyes
    And no child’s eyes should have sorrow
    But the composer knew the reasons why

    His teacher had just struck him
    The mark was still clear upon his face
    As were the tears that followed it
    And whose path one could still trace
    And somewhere in his deepest thoughts
    The composer could still taste

    The child was writing a melody
    To distract himself from his pain
    And the elder Beethoven watching this
    Could not be restrained

    He entered into the small room
    And sat next to the child
    Which startled the boy for a moment
    Until the elderly gentleman smiled

    Then he played the song the child was writing
    And where the melody was rough
    Beethoven added three small notes
    But those notes they were enough

    So in the year of 1778
    On a beautiful summer’s day
    To a young child’s ears and an old man’s fears
    The Sixth Symphony was first played

    The child looks up in delight at the kind stranger who has helped him finish his song. Though unused to such acts of kindness from adults he quickly warms to the elderly man and together they play, “The Pastoral Symphony.”

    Fate then whispered from the darkness
    That his time here was at an end
    But as he was getting up to leave
    The child asked would they ever meet again?



    The Moment


    In this world of circumstance
    Children never fear forever
    And this moment that enchants
    Someday we may both remember

    Then
    Maybe then
    If we are still alive
    Then
    Maybe then
    This moment will survive

    There is time in every word
    There are words in every reason
    And these notes that are unheard
    One day they may find their season

    Then
    Maybe then
    If we are still alive
    Then
    Maybe then
    This moment will survive

    Then
    Maybe then
    If we are still alive
    Then
    Maybe then
    This moment will survive
    Will survive
  12. The MomentLyrics

    The Moment

    In this world of circumstance
    Children never fear forever
    And this moment that enchants
    Someday we may both remember

    Then
    Maybe then
    If we are still alive
    Then
    Maybe then
    This moment will survive

    There is time in every word
    There are words in every reason
    And these notes that are unheard
    One day they may find their season

    Then
    Maybe then
    If we are still alive
    Then
    Maybe then
    This moment will survive

    Then
    Maybe then
    If we are still alive
    Then
    Maybe then
    This moment will survive
    Will survive
  13. Vienna NarrationLyrics

    Vienna Narration

    The composer then looked at the child

    Who smiled but did not speak

    And then the child faded into the dark of the past
    Where the darkness is always deep

    And Beethoven turned back to Fate
    Who had always been close by

    And told her what he wanted changed
    So his fate could be defied

    “I did not need a teacher

    Who taught with the back of his hand
    While the music I was dreaming

    He could never understand”

    “These moments of your life I’ll change” Fate says
    “But there is a warning I must give
    That to change one moment of a life
    Can change how that life is lived

    Like the gears inside a clock

    Every moment turns another

    Remove from a wall a single block

    And sometimes that entire wall will shudder

    The pain you felt through childhood

    Would now seem to have no worth

    But it was the salve you sought to ease that pain
    That gave your Sixth Symphony birth

    So, before I grant this wish

    And this tale you later tell

    Know that these wounds will disappear
    But so will your Sixth Symphony, as well

    So now that you know all that will be changed
    Including things far out of view

    When your decision has been made

    Tell me what it is you would have me do?”

    Fate did not have long to wait

    The answer was clear upon his face

    His childhood would retain its tears

    And his sixth symphony would retain its place

    Fate then said they should move on

    For their time was growing short

    And then asked where he had been happiest?
    And she watched as he followed that thought

    For a moment there was a glitter
    Somewhere beyond his stare

    In a time when days were not bitter
    And she found Vienna there

    Which brings us all, my friends

    To the next chapter in our story

    As they watched Beethoven as a young man
    Arriving in Vienna with all its glory



    Vienna


    Since I was a child
    I've seen her in a dream
    A captured fairy tale
    That echoes ‘cross my life

    And though I've courted her
    She's always stayed unseen
    Now all at once she,
    Glitters in the night

    But that was yesterday
    And that all was before
    When she was far away
    A silhouette of dreams

    But others whispered
    That she was so much more
    And suddenly I now
    Know what they mean

    Dreams change
    Years strain
    Lost illusions
    Last stands
    God's hand
    Absolution
    Found

    Fairy tale sins
    Visions by Grimm
    All forgiven
    Lives spent in vain
    Never reclaimed
    Take their final bows

    Pictures and words
    Visions absurd
    Maddened poets
    All within sight
    Failures in life
    Who'll never know it
    Lazarus cries
    There in his eyes
    Hope has risen
    Depth and facade
    All before me now

    Vienna
  14. ViennaLyrics

    Vienna

    Since I was a child
    I've seen her in a dream
    A captured fairy tale
    That echoes ‘cross my life

    And though I've courted her
    She's always stayed unseen
    Now all at once she,
    Glitters in the night

    But that was yesterday
    And that all was before
    When she was far away
    A silhouette of dreams

    But others whispered
    That she was so much more
    And suddenly I now
    Know what they mean

    Dreams change
    Years strain
    Lost illusions
    Last stands
    God's hand
    Absolution
    Found

    Fairy tale sins
    Visions by Grimm
    All forgiven
    Lives spent in vain
    Never reclaimed
    Take their final bows

    Pictures and words
    Visions absurd
    Maddened poets
    All within sight
    Failures in life
    Who'll never know it
    Lazarus cries
    There in his eyes
    Hope has risen
    Depth and facade
    All before me now

    Vienna
  15. Mozart NarrationLyrics

    Mozart Narration

    Fate then reminded him “It was here you first met Haydn
    And walked through palaces filled with art
    And studied with your childhood hero
    The legendary Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart”
    “It was here, as you improvised together
    That Amadeus became your brother
    Your melodies weaving seamlessly
    As each note seemed to dare another”

  16. Mozart
  17. The Dreams Of Candlelight NarrationLyrics

    The Dreams Of Candlelight Narration

    Fate then reminded him
    That music was not the only debt
    He owed the city of Vienna,
    It was there that he first met,
    The Harsburg Princess Theresa
    And how their lives became entwined
    By a love that became immortal
    And still echoes now through time

    Together, Fate and Beethoven watch the composer as a young man falling in love with the Princess Theresa.


    The Dreams Of Candlelight


    Could this night it last forever
    Every moment held together
    As if in a perfect trance
    And such a thing could be

    No one else would understand it
    We would know the gods had planned it
    And for such a night as this
    That they gave memory

    And we would live inside this night
    Within the dreams of candlelight
    If you would bring this wish to life
    And spend this night with me

    Could this moment last forever
    And this dream our one endeavor
    If the stars would just enchant
    And time would then agree

    Every moment of tomorrow
    From this evening we would borrow
    If this wish the stars would grant

    And gently oversee
    And we would live inside this night
    Within the dreams of candlelight
    If you would bring this wish to life
    And spend this night with me
  18. The Dreams Of CandlelightLyrics

    The Dreams Of Candlelight

    Could this night it last forever
    Every moment held together
    As if in a perfect trance
    And such a thing could be

    No one else would understand it
    We would know the gods had planned it
    And for such a night as this
    That they gave memory

    And we would live inside this night
    Within the dreams of candlelight
    If you would bring this wish to life
    And spend this night with me

    Could this moment last forever
    And this dream our one endeavor
    If the stars would just enchant
    And time would then agree

    Every moment of tomorrow
    From this evening we would borrow
    If this wish the stars would grant
    And gently oversee

    And we would live inside this night
    Within the dreams of candlelight
    If you would bring this wish to life
    And spend this night with me
  19. Requiem (The Fifth) NarrationLyrics

    Requiem (The Fifth) Narration

    The happiest moments of his life
    Were there inside that night
    But within a year my friends I fear
    He would drive her from his life

    Not because his love had faded
    Or another lover had been met
    But because he could not believe that someone could love
    A musician that was becoming deaf

    He gave her no explanations
    For this secret, it was his shame
    He could not bear to ever hear
    The word “deaf” connected to his name

    He would not answer her letters
    Or the inquires she left
    He stayed inside, alone with his pride
    Though his heart would not forget

    He knew she was still out there
    This he could still clearly recall
    But the silence was there also

    Requiem (The Fifth)


    Voca me bendictum!
    Sona mean animam!

    Voca me bendictum!
    Sona mean animam!
  20. Requiem (The Fifth)Lyrics

    Requiem (The Fifth)

    Voca me bendictum!
    Sona mean animam!

    Voca me bendictum!
    Sona mean animam!
  21. I'll Keep Your Secrets NarrationLyrics

    I'll Keep Your Secrets Narration

    Sometimes early in the evening
    While twilight still lingered in the sky
    Beethoven would be writing in his music room
    And Theresa would walk by

    She knew that something had changed in his life
    A secret his soul kept deep within
    But Theresa did not care what that secret was
    She only cared about him



    I'll Keep Your Secrets


    Lost in your dark I see you there
    What do you see beyond your stare
    And you believe that no one else can know

    What is this thing you keep inside
    Out of the light and wrapped in pride
    Always afraid that one day it will show

    I'll keep your secrets
    I'll hold your ground
    And when the darkness starts to fall
    I'll be around, there, waiting
    When dreams are fading
    And friends are distant and few

    Know at that moment I'll be there with you

    What are these voices that you hear?
    Are they too far or far too near?
    What are these things that echo from the past?

    Who are these ghosts you see at night?
    There in the shadows of your life
    They only live by the light you cast

    I'll keep your secrets
    I'll hold your ground
    And when the darkness starts to fall
    I'll be around, there waiting
    When dreams are fading
    And friends are distant and few

    Know at that moment I'll be there with you

    I'll be around
    When there's no reason left to carry on
    And every dream you've ever had is gone
    And the dark is deep and black, without a sound
    And every star has been dragged to the ground
    Know at that moment I will be around
    Know at that moment I will be around
    Know at that moment I will be around
  22. I'll Keep Your SecretsLyrics

    I'll Keep Your Secrets

    Lost in your dark I see you there
    What do you see beyond your stare
    And you believe that no one else can know

    What is this thing you keep inside
    Out of the light and wrapped in pride
    Always afraid that one day it will show

    I'll keep your secrets
    I'll hold your ground
    And when the darkness starts to fall
    I'll be around, there, waiting
    When dreams are fading
    And friends are distant and few

    Know at that moment I'll be there with you

    What are these voices that you hear?
    Are they too far or far too near?
    What are these things that echo from the past?

    Who are these ghosts you see at night?
    There in the shadows of your life
    They only live by the light you cast

    I'll keep your secrets
    I'll hold your ground
    And when the darkness starts to fall
    I'll be around, there waiting
    When dreams are fading
    And friends are distant and few

    Know at that moment I'll be there with you

    I'll be around
    When there's no reason left to carry on
    And every dream you've ever had is gone
    And the dark is deep and black, without a sound
    And every star has been dragged to the ground
    Know at that moment I will be around
    Know at that moment I will be around
    Know at that moment I will be around
  23. The Dark NarrationLyrics

    The Dark Narration

    The years quickly went by
    Until he was totally quite deaf
    And then, suddenly, the years he had lived
    Were more than the ones he had left
    While the silence, it grew deeper
    As it mingled with his fears
    But in that total silence
    The muses still whispered in his ear

    And from deep inside
    They beckoned, dance
    And deftly wove their porcelain trance
    Of Chinese silk
    Dyed in morphine
    By princesses so bacchantine



    The Dark


    Feel the darkness smiling
    Every note is dying
    Silence is refining
    Every thought in his heart

    Still the fates are weaving
    Every note that's bleeding
    As he sits there seething
    All alone in the dark
    Alone in the dark
    Alone in the …

    But in the night
    The darkness breathes
    If he wills it to be

    Before his eyes
    The music dies
    But he will always hear me

    He sits alone
    The cards are shown
    As he embraces the dark

    The only sound
    That he will hear
    Is there in his heart

    Someone is whispering softly to me
    Shadows of things that no one can see
    They are there for you if you want them to be
    You want them to be
    You want them to....

    But in the night
    The darkness breathes
    If he wills it to be

    Before his eyes
    The music dies
    But he will always hear me

    He sits alone
    The cards are shown
    As he embraces the dark

    The only sound
    That he will hear
    Is there in his heart
  24. The DarkLyrics

    The Dark

    Feel the darkness smiling
    Every note is dying
    Silence is refining
    Every thought in his heart

    Still the fates are weaving
    Every note that's bleeding
    As he sits there seething
    All alone in the dark
    Alone in the dark
    Alone in the …

    But in the night
    The darkness breathes
    If he wills it to be

    Before his eyes
    The music dies
    But he will always hear me

    He sits alone
    The cards are shown
    As he embraces the dark

    The only sound
    That he will hear
    Is there in his heart

    Someone is whispering softly to me
    Shadows of things that no one can see
    They are there for you if you want them to be
    You want them to be
    You want them to....

    But in the night
    The darkness breathes
    If he wills it to be

    Before his eyes
    The music dies
    But he will always hear me

    He sits alone
    The cards are shown
    As he embraces the dark

    The only sound
    That he will hear
    Is there in his heart
  25. Für Elise NarrationLyrics

    Für Elise Narration

    “I see the answer clearly now” Beethoven said
    “Of this wish, I can have no regrets

    The greatest pain within my years

    Occurred as I became deaf”

    “Go back into my past, sweet fate

    And return my hearing throughout my life

    My live performances would again be legendary
    And Theresa would have become my wife

    I would have children gathered around me
    Where now I just have songs

    Return my hearing, my sweet lady

    And in doing so, you will right all wrongs”

    “Oh, my dearest Ludwig,” fate replied,

    “I ache to grant your wish
but as I warned you once before

    It would cause your other songs to not exist

    Before you lost your hearing

    Your performances were your art

    It was how you made your living

    Of your life it was an irremovable part

    It was only when your hearing left you
    That you truly began to write

    Creating masterpiece after masterpiece
    That have led us to this night

    Say the word and I’ll remove your deafness
    Say the word and I’ll remove the pain

    But the music will disappear as well

    And the world won’t be the same

    I wish I could offer you an easy answer
    But easy answers are rarely there

    And at this moment in your life

    Of that fact I’m sure you are quite aware

    No one, including myself, would blame you
    For trying to save your soul

    But the Devil will have his victory

    And the future’s children will pay the toll

    So, tell me Ludwig, what should I do?

    Should I return your hearing to you

    You cannot seek advice from another
    Voice these songs are your children, their fate, your choice”

    Beethoven gazed at her

    Through eyes of deep regret

    The songs, they would remain for now
    And his ears, they would remain quite deaf

  26. Für Elise
  27. After The Fall NarrationLyrics

    After The Fall Narration

    Fate then informed him
    That it is not only his deafness that shaped his life
    But his lack of ability to believe
    That prevented Theresa from being his wife

    She would then show Beethoven
    A moment of his life, of which he was unaware
    When, as an old man, he walked down a street
    And Theresa saw him there

    The princess kept her presence silent
    As she stood in the shadow of a tavern’s sign
    But Fate allowed him to hear Theresa’s thoughts
    As she watched him for the very last time



    After The Fall


    Time
    Only time
    Could never take me away from you

    And why
    Should it try
    Time never cares just what we do

    It just sits on a star
    And gazes down
    Dropping its moments all around
    And if I could wish upon that star
    I would find what you dream
    And then ask God to grant it

    I wanted
    To say this
    Long before this dark would fall
    At night I
    Would pray this
    Then wonder if God heard at all
    For the chances I've had are now long gone
    And that star is no longer wished upon
    For on this night it seems too far away

    Try
    I have tried
    To pretend that I don't care
    But then
    Sleep arrives
    And in every dream I find you there

    But I don't want the past to be my life
    And I don't want to live inside the night
    But I don't want to see your shadow fade
    So I sleep and I dream
    Though I don't understand it

    I wanted
    To say this
    Long before this dark would fall
    At night I
    Would pray this
    Then wonder if God heard at all
    For the chances I've had are now long gone
    And that star is no longer wished upon
    For on this night it seems too far away

    You can live your life in a thousand ways
    But it all comes down to that single day
    When you realize what you regret
    What you can't reclaim but you can't forget
    If I could just fall back into my life
    And find you there inside this night
    And let eternity just drift away
  28. After The FallLyrics

    After The Fall

    Time
    Only time
    Could never take me away from you

    And why
    Should it try
    Time never cares just what we do

    It just sits on a star
    And gazes down
    Dropping its moments all around
    And if I could wish upon that star
    I would find what you dream
    And then ask God to grant it

    I wanted
    To say this
    Long before this dark would fall
    At night I
    Would pray this
    Then wonder if God heard at all
    For the chances I've had are now long gone
    And that star is no longer wished upon
    For on this night it seems too far away

    Try
    I have tried
    To pretend that I don't care
    But then
    Sleep arrives
    And in every dream I find you there

    But I don't want the past to be my life
    And I don't want to live inside the night
    But I don't want to see your shadow fade
    So I sleep and I dream
    Though I don't understand it

    I wanted
    To say this
    Long before this dark would fall
    At night I
    Would pray this
    Then wonder if God heard at all
    For the chances I've had are now long gone
    And that star is no longer wished upon
    For on this night it seems too far away

    You can live your life in a thousand ways
    But it all comes down to that single day
    When you realize what you regret
    What you can't reclaim but you can't forget
    If I could just fall back into my life
    And find you there inside this night
    And let eternity just drift away
  29. A Last Illusion NarrationLyrics

    A Last Illusion Narration

    And with that, the princess Theresa
    Walked slowly into the night
    It would be the last time that she would see him
    At least, the last time in this life

    And Beethoven’s heart collapsed into itself
    When he realized what might have been
    And the only one that could not see how she felt
    During their lives, had been him

    Now, Fate, she tried to ease the pain
    From his wounds, now steeped in salt
    And reminded him that a man
    Was not the total sum of his faults

    “Think what you have written
    The ears you have enchanted
    The wishes for every hurt soul’s peace
    That you have somehow granted

    The wings you’ve given cripples
    In the world inside their minds
    The joy you brought to countless lives
    That heard you music for the first time

    Hear how that music echoes
    In the futures yet to be
    And now look into the shadows
    And hear the music your life will cause to be”

    Fate allows Beethoven to see all the musicians from the past that have affected his writing as well as all the musicians still unborn whose work will be inspired by him.



    A Last Illusion


    Priusquam praesens
    Damnatus salvens:
    Hic homo nesciens
    Quae futura est

    Est plane vanum
    Magnificandum
    Error aut sanum
    O fortuna est
    Qua?

    The past and present
    Loss and redemption
    A man's intentions
    All things yet to be

    A last illusion
    Time's absolution
    Fact and confusion
    Fate and destiny bound
  30. A Last IllusionLyrics

    A Last Illusion

    Priusquam praesens
    Damnatus salvens:
    Hic homo nesciens
    Quae futura est

    Est plane vanum
    Magnificandum
    Error aut sanum
    O fortuna est
    Qua?

    The past and present
    Loss and redemption
    A man's intentions
    All things yet to be

    A last illusion
    Time's absolution
    Fact and confusion
    Fate and destiny bound
  31. This Is Who You Are NarrationLyrics

    This Is Who You Are Narration

    At the end of this opus
    From the future and the past
    Fate watches the joy on the old man’s face
    As he finally realized at last

    That a man is not the sum total
    Of the collection of his faults
    The errors and mistakes from his past
    He keeps carefully locked in vaults


    This Is Who You Are


    Sometimes
    Slowly
    Time brings revelation

    Waiting
    Softly
    For someone to believe

    That the ghosts we've hidden or left to die
    Have now arisen and will arrive
    To say what has happened
    Say what has happened
    Say what has happened
    To me

    And who would have thought
    That you'd be the one
    That I would have found here waiting

    Lost in this night
    Until you arrived
    And always too blind to see

    And who would have thought
    That after this time
    That I'd be the one you're saving

    Now undisguised
    The ghosts that survive
    Now say what was meant to be

    I never wanted to give my life away
    Who ever thought it would matter anyway

    Wandering inside this night
    Finding pieces of a life
    Never sure I'd ever know what it means

    It's the strangers in your life
    That you’d never thought you'd meet
    It's the hand that picked you up
    When you’re laying in the street

    It's the hand that cut you down
    It's the dream that someone shared
    When you thought that all was lost
    It's the friend that wasn't there

    You can run from all the memories
    But never get that far
    For in the end they'll find you
    For this is who you are

    Change one note
    Change one line
    Nothing's going to be the same
    Change one loss
    Change one cut
    Everything is re-arranged

    Every act
    Cruel or kind
    Lost inside our memory
    If you look
    There in time

    You'll find it in
    Find it in
    Find it in
    You'll find it in me
  32. This Is Who You AreLyrics

    This Is Who You Are

    Sometimes
    Slowly
    Time brings revelation

    Waiting
    Softly
    For someone to believe

    That the ghosts we've hidden or left to die
    Have now arisen and will arrive
    To say what has happened
    Say what has happened
    Say what has happened
    To me

    And who would have thought
    That you'd be the one
    That I would have found here waiting

    Lost in this night
    Until you arrived
    And always too blind to see

    And who would have thought
    That after this time
    That I'd be the one you're saving

    Now undisguised
    The ghosts that survive
    Now say what was meant to be

    I never wanted to give my life away
    Who ever thought it would matter anyway

    Wandering inside this night
    Finding pieces of a life
    Never sure I'd ever know what it means

    It's the strangers in your life
    That you'd never thought you'd meet
    It's the hand that picked you up
    When you’re laying in the street

    It's the hand that cut you down
    It's the dream that someone shared
    When you thought that all was lost
    It's the friend that wasn't there

    You can run from all the memories
    But never get that far
    For in the end they'll find you
    For this is who you are

    Change one note
    Change one line
    Nothing's going to be the same
    Change one loss
    Change one cut
    Everything is re-arranged

    Every act
    Cruel or kind
    Lost inside our memory
    If you look
    There in time

    You'll find it in
    Find it in
    Find it in
    You'll find it in me
  33. Beethoven
  34. Mephistopheles' Return NarrationLyrics

    Mephistopheles' Return Narration

    Their time, it was now over
    Like a shattered hourglass
    He could not win
    So with his sins
    They returned from his past

    From the shadows of his life
    He told Fate his decision was made
    He would not give up a single note
    Every piece, it would be saved

    He could not remove the music
    That gave so many other people joy
    But still, he dread his future
    As the Lord of Evil’s toy
    So late into his life
    Like the last days of December
    He searched his mind
    For a way to find, a way out of his dilemma

    For Satan, in our lives, is noted
    All his vices often quoted
    And though he serves a splendid feast
    At the table’s head, still sits the beast



    Mephistopheles' Return


    In every life
    It has been said
    There comes a time to join the dead
    Admit there is no second chance
    And join death in a final dance

    Across the floor, eternity
    Until the final moment’s bled
    And in the dark, to take his hand
    Accept that it is time to wed

    I don't know what I'm thinking
    Because all that I see
    Is his face, grinning
    Mephistopheles

    I need to find an answer
    For this one cannot be
    Within the words of
    Mephistophel...

    Tell me what you think
    Tell me what you know
    Did you really think
    That there would be an ever after?

    Do you think I'm scared?
    Tell me does it show
    When inside this deafness
    I can always hear his whispering?

    There comes a time you decide
    What from your life will be real
    What scars you will keep alive
    What you are willing to heal

    But can I gamble this night
    With everything that I am?
    And can I erase my life
    Or do I stay here and be damned

    Tell me what you think
    Tell me what you know
    Did you really think
    That there would be an ever after?

    Do you think I'm scared?
    Tell me does it show
    When inside this deafness
    I can always hear his laughter

    I don't know what I'm thinking
    Because all that I see
    Is his face grinning
    Mephistopheles

    I need to find an answer
    For this one cannot be
    Within the words of Mephistopheles

    I

    Don't need this path before me
    Don't need forgotten glory
    Don't need these threats of violence
    Don't need eternal silence

    Don't need these midnight visions
    Don't need to make decisions
    Don't need to be uncertain
    Don't need this final curtain

    II

    Somewhere out there
    He still gazes
    As I wander through his mazes

    Death and life here
    Truth or lies
    Every thought is well disguised

    III

    Now
    It is too late
    This path to take
    Don't want to lose my life this way

    Medusa dreams
    The dead still scream
    Don't want to see my life betrayed

    IV

    All these things are now before me
    Endless death or timeless glory
    On this night of ghosts returning
    To the light of bridges burning

    Now it is too late
    This path to take
    Don't want to see my life be...(trayed)

    Tell me what you think
    Tell me what you know
    Did you really think
    That there would be an ever after?

    Do you think I'm scared?
    Tell me does it show?
    When inside this deafness
    I can always hear his laughter

    I don't know what I'm thinking
    Because all that I see
    Is his face grinning
    Mephistopheles

    I need to find an answer
    For this one cannot be
    Within the words of Mephistopheles

    The cost of patience
    When there's no time before me
    Of hesitation
    All for this twisted glory

    And my salvation
    The cost of how it's gotten
    The cost of what's gained
    All forgotten
    All forgotten
  35. Mephistopheles' ReturnLyrics

    Mephistopheles' Return

    In every life
    It has been said
    There comes a time to join the dead
    Admit there is no second chance
    And join death in a final dance

    Across the floor, eternity
    Until the final moment’s bled
    And in the dark, to take his hand
    Accept that it is time to wed

    I don't know what I'm thinking
    Because all that I see
    Is his face, grinning
    Mephistopheles

    I need to find an answer
    For this one cannot be
    Within the words of
    Mephistophel...

    Tell me what you think
    Tell me what you know
    Did you really think
    That there would be an ever after?

    Do you think I'm scared?
    Tell me does it show
    When inside this deafness
    I can always hear his whispering?

    There comes a time you decide
    What from your life will be real
    What scars you will keep alive
    What you are willing to heal

    But can I gamble this night
    With everything that I am?
    And can I erase my life
    Or do I stay here and be damned

    Tell me what you think
    Tell me what you know
    Did you really think
    That there would be an ever after?

    Do you think I'm scared?
    Tell me does it show
    When inside this deafness
    I can always hear his laughter

    I don't know what I'm thinking
    Because all that I see
    Is his face grinning
    Mephistopheles

    I need to find an answer
    For this one cannot be
    Within the words of Mephistopheles

    I

    Don't need this path before me
    Don't need forgotten glory
    Don't need these threats of violence
    Don't need eternal silence

    Don't need these midnight visions
    Don't need to make decisions
    Don't need to be uncertain
    Don't need this final curtain

    II

    Somewhere out there
    He still gazes
    As I wander through his mazes

    Death and life here
    Truth or lies
    Every thought is well disguised

    III

    Now
    It is too late
    This path to take
    Don't want to lose my life this way

    Medusa dreams
    The dead still scream
    Don't want to see my life betrayed

    IV

    All these things are now before me
    Endless death or timeless glory
    On this night of ghosts returning
    To the light of bridges burning

    Now it is too late
    This path to take
    Don't want to see my life be...(trayed)

    Tell me what you think
    Tell me what you know
    Did you really think
    That there would be an ever after?

    Do you think I'm scared?
    Tell me does it show?
    When inside this deafness
    I can always hear his laughter

    I don't know what I'm thinking
    Because all that I see
    Is his face grinning
    Mephistopheles

    I need to find an answer
    For this one cannot be
    Within the words of Mephistopheles

    The cost of patience
    When there's no time before me
    Of hesitation
    All for this twisted glory

    And my salvation
    The cost of how it's gotten
    The cost of what's gained
    All forgotten
    All forgotten
  36. Misery NarrationLyrics

    Misery Narration

    Then, at that moment, the clock behind them
    Struck midnight on its bell
    And Mephistopheles once more appeared
    Shimmering in its knell

    Saying, “So, tell me, my dear Ludwig
    What did we decide?
    Do we have a deal?
    Has your end been sealed
    Or has it been defied?”

    The composer moved not an inch
    As he stated his reply
    “This music I cannot allow you to take from this world
    So it appears you must take I”

    “You do not appreciate my kindness,” the Devil said
    “No one could offer you more
    Your soul is trapped
    In fire wrapped
    And I’ve given you a door

    How could you deny it?
    Are you a saint or are you a fool?
    Well I’m feeling generous this night
    So, once more, I’ll bend the rules

    A deal, it is still out there
    Just hidden, out of view
    So I’ll make one final offer
    That will return your soul to you

    The compassion you feel for mankind
    I perhaps can understand
    That your music that has brought such happiness
    You cannot remove from the lives of man

    But your Tenth Symphony, You’ve just completed
    No one else knows it exists
    And what mankind has never heard
    Mankind will never miss
    Believe what I say is true, my friend
    It’s as clear as a Judas Kiss

    So, give this last song to me
    Is it really so much?
    To trade so little for your eternal soul
    It’s a deal for which you should rush”

    Beethoven wavered for a second
    Until the ghost of Mozart reappeared
    And whispered very quietly
    in the Great Beethoven’s ear

    “You cannot give this song to him
    Though the temptation is very hard
    For this is the greatest piece ever written
    It is the very voice of God”

    Then Mozart faded back into the darkness
    But his words had done their work
    As Beethoven once more turned down
    The offer, no matter how it hurt

    “You are a cagey bargainer”
    The Devil replied, his voice quite icy cold
    “If Judas had you around in thirty-three A.D.
    His silver pieces just might have been gold
    But I’ll make you a final offer
    And this one, I swear you must accept
    For if you turn it down my friend
    Your last offer is death

    Your soul is now mine to keep
    But I have something else to trade
    A jewel that glitters in this night
    And it is entirely man made

    Walk over to the window
    And gaze across the street
    At a child lying in the gutter
    Where she is trying to gather sleep

    But the rain, it will not let her
    As it falls both hard and cold
    With every drop, a Devil’s prop
    Designed to make her old”



    Misery


    There is a child and she sleeps in the gutter
    Don't close your eyes and she's easy to see
    She is not your child
    She's always another's
    And those you abandon
    They are left to me

    And know I will impale her like a knife
    Leave her twisting day after day after day
    Of a very short life with me

    Listen now closely and hear how I've planned it
    Please let me tell you just how it will be
    She'll feel the pain but she won't understand it
    She'll think it's her fate
    But we'll know it's me

    And know I will impale her like a knife
    Leave her twisting day after day after day
    Of a very short life
    With me

    So let me know
    Have I been clear
    That I will magnify each cut and every bruise
    And every single childhood tear

    I'll pick her scabs
    Cripple a hand
    Push a finger in each wound I make
    Now tell me then
    Do you understand?
    You understand?
    You understand
    You understand?
    You understand

    And know I will impale her like a knife
    Leave her twisting day after day after day
    Of a very short life
    With me
  37. MiseryLyrics

    Misery

    There is a child and she sleeps in the gutter
    Don't close your eyes and she's easy to see
    She is not your child
    She's always another's
    And those you abandon
    They are left to me

    And know I will impale her like a knife
    Leave her twisting day after day after day
    Of a very short life with me

    Listen now closely and hear how I've planned it
    Please let me tell you just how it will be
    She'll feel the pain but she won't understand it
    She'll think it's her fate
    But we'll know it's me

    And know I will impale her like a knife
    Leave her twisting day after day after day
    Of a very short life
    With me

    So let me know
    Have I been clear
    That I will magnify each cut and every bruise
    And every single childhood tear

    I'll pick her scabs
    Cripple a hand
    Push a finger in each wound I make
    Now tell me then
    Do you understand?
    You understand?
    You understand
    You understand?
    You understand

    And know I will impale her like a knife
    Leave her twisting day after day after day
    Of a very short life
    With me
  38. Who Is This Child NarrationLyrics

    Who Is This Child Narration

    “Release your Tenth Symphony” the Devil said
    “That’s all I ask of thee

    And I will give this child to you
    A fair trade you would agree
    A mere trickling of notes

    Who cares about a single song

    To not trade it for this innocent child
    Would certainly be...wrong”

    Beethoven turned away from the window
    And gave the Devil a final “no!”

    But the child was still inside his mind
    And he could not let her go
    (And the more he denied her hold on him
    The more that hold did grow)



    Who Is This Child


    Who is this child
    That I've never seen before?
    Who is this child
    That I've not seen till this day?

    Who dares to fall asleep
    Outside my door
    If we should wait awhile
    I'm sure she'll go away

    To be involved with this
    Would surely not be wise
    For in the final word
    She means nothing to me

    I learned the trick is
    That we just avoid her eyes
    And the question
    What she means to ...

    What is this life?
    There will be other lives
    Soon to arrive
    Surely some will survive
    She is but one
    And there are many more
    Each the same as any other

    Who is this child?
    What does she mean to me?
    I close my eyes
    And still her face I see
    She is but one
    Her kind is everywhere
    Can't you see, there's no way I should care

    I need a moment now
    I have to clear my mind
    Is there a limit, Lord
    Just to being kind

    There is no way in life
    That each child can be saved
    Should I be looking with regret
    At every grave?

    There are no guarantees
    In life, she should be warned
    I'm not responsible for
    This child being born

    I'm not responsible
    In any kind of way
    For every child that life can gather

    What is this life?
    There will be other lives
    Soon to arrive
    Surely some will survive

    She is but one
    And there are many more
    Could this one life really matter?

    Who is this child?
    What does she mean to me?
    I close my eyes
    And still her face I see
    She is but one
    Her kind is everywhere
    Can't you see, there's no way I should care

    Can you see it in the night?
    Can you feel that it's out there?
    It's the arcing of a life
    And it's hanging in the air

    Though I try to close my eyes
    And pretend that I don't know
    In my heart
    I just can't let it go

    There has to be another way for me
    A way that leads from this insanity
    A way that leads from my destruction in this way

    Can you see it in the night?
    Can you feel that it's out there?
    It's the arcing of a life
    And it's hanging in the air

    Though I try to close my eyes
    And pretend that I don't know
    In my heart
    I just can't let it go
  39. Who Is This ChildLyrics

    Who Is This Child

    Who is this child
    That I've never seen before?
    Who is this child
    That I've not seen till this day?

    Who dares to fall asleep
    Outside my door
    If we should wait awhile
    I'm sure she'll go away

    To be involved with this
    Would surely not be wise
    For in the final word
    She means nothing to me

    I learned the trick is
    That we just avoid her eyes
    And the question
    What she means to ...

    What is this life?
    There will be other lives
    Soon to arrive
    Surely some will survive
    She is but one
    And there are many more
    Each the same as any other

    Who is this child?
    What does she mean to me?
    I close my eyes
    And still her face I see
    She is but one
    Her kind is everywhere
    Can't you see, there's no way I should care

    I need a moment now
    I have to clear my mind
    Is there a limit, Lord
    Just to being kind

    There is no way in life
    That each child can be saved
    Should I be looking with regret
    At every grave?

    There are no guarantees
    In life, she should be warned
    I'm not responsible for
    This child being born

    I'm not responsible
    In any kind of way
    For every child that life can gather

    What is this life?
    There will be other lives
    Soon to arrive
    Surely some will survive

    She is but one
    And there are many more
    Could this one life really matter?

    Who is this child?
    What does she mean to me?
    I close my eyes
    And still her face I see
    She is but one
    Her kind is everywhere
    Can't you see, there's no way I should care

    Can you see it in the night?
    Can you feel that it's out there?
    It's the arcing of a life
    And it's hanging in the air

    Though I try to close my eyes
    And pretend that I don't know
    In my heart
    I just can't let it go

    There has to be another way for me
    A way that leads from this insanity
    A way that leads from my destruction in this way

    Can you see it in the night?
    Can you feel that it's out there?
    It's the arcing of a life
    And it's hanging in the air

    Though I try to close my eyes
    And pretend that I don't know
    In my heart
    I just can't let it go
  40. A Final Dream NarrationLyrics

    A Final Dream Narration

    Beethoven collapsed at his piano
    Saying to the Devil “we now have a deal.”

    And Satan replied, “I’ll be gone from her life this very night,
    From here on happiness is all she will feel”

    The devil then leapt with sheer delight

    In evil ecstasy

    Shouting for all to hear within sight
    “The Tenth Symphony now belongs to me”

    But while Beethoven sat face down at his piano
    As if Satan’s boast he had not heard

    Twist came up and pulled the composer’s sleeve
    And said, “How do you know that the Devil will keep his word?”

    The Devil did not even look up from the manuscript
    Where he was examining his prize

    “Don’t worry about hurting my feelings
    With what your warped friend has implied

    I see you have a bible on the table
    Where you keep the statements from your bank
    And, as you may have noticed, the last page of a bible
    Is always left quite blank

    Now, if you’ll just take that bible

    And tear out that final page

    You can write a contract of your own choosing
    That will hold my word like a dragon in a cage

    And if you don’t believe me

    Just ask your good friend, Fate

    For a contract written on such a holy page
    Even I could never break”

    Beethoven glanced up at fate

    Who was still within his view

    And she nodded her head gently
    Acknowledging that the Devil’s words were true

    The old man took the bible

    And tore out the last page, as he was told
    But when he tried to write, his hands, they shook
    From nervousness or perhaps just from being old

    These words would be his ending
    But the words would just not come
    As the Devil grew impatient

    For the deal to finally be done

    Fate took pity on the composer
    And going gently to his side
    Offered to write the contract

    And the composer nodded his reply

    She then took the paper

    And with bold artistic strokes
    Put down their agreement
    And this is what she wrote

    It is agreed upon this night, March 26, 1827 between the undersigned, that the music of the Tenth Symphony, composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, firstborn son of Johann and Maria van Beethoven, of the city of Bonn, shall henceforth be the property of Mephistopheles. It is also understood that it is his intention to remove any signs of this music from the memory of man for all time. In exchange for the destruction of the aforementioned music it is also agreed that Mephistopheles and all his minions will remove themselves from the life of the child presently sleeping in the gutter directly across from the window of this room. This removal of influence is to be commenced immediately upon signing and to be enforced for all eternity.



    _____________________ _____________________
    Ludwig Van Beethoven Mephistopheles

    The Devil read it rapidly
    And quickly signed his name
    And slowly without looking up
    Beethoven did the same

    The Devil grinned a devil’s grin
    And shoved the symphony over the candle’s flame,
    Savoring the fire that would consume it all
    Forever erasing its name

    But when the manuscript emerged from the fire
    It was still all quite there

    It wasn’t burned or even singed

    There wasn’t even smoke wafting in the air

    He took the symphony once again

    And forced it to burst into flames

    But once again it remained unsinged

    And Mephistopheles looked for who to blame

    Then the Devil heard a giggle

    Escaping from a grinning dwarf

    And looking around, saw Fate’s son, Twist
    And he beckoned him to come forth

    “Why is this symphony still here?

    Why does it not ignite?

    Tell me you gnome, what do you know?
    For if it does not burn...you might”

    Twist squirmed nervously before Satan
    But could not hide his delight

    As he explained how the music had survived
    And would live long past this night

    “The contract says that you now own

    The Tenth Symphony

    Written by the firstborn son, named Ludwig
    Of the Johann and Maria van Beethoven family

    Now, a little known fact of history

    But I assure you, it’s totally true

    That the composer had an older brother
    Who was named Ludwig van Beethoven, too

    Now this child died quite young

    Before our composer here was born

    So they named their second son Ludwig, also
    Though you would think the name was getting worn

    His older brother lived only days

    And now is at rest with God

    As to why they named their second son Ludwig too
    Perhaps coming up with names back then was hard

    So, according to the deal you signed
    If the first Ludwig rises through his coffin boards
    And writes nine other symphonies
    The tenth one will be yours!”

    The Devil’s face contorted

    As he realized he’d been fooled

    And the child outside was safe as well
    For the contract’s words would rule

    The floor opened into an abyss

    And the Devil disappeared
    As outside the storm subsided

    And the stars shined in skies now clear

    Beethoven stood up in confusion

    Over what had just occurred
    He realized the girl and the symphony were safe from what he had overheard

    But he asked Fate why the Devil
    Had not taken his soul to hell

    “He never had your soul,” Fate said
    “It was never his to sell”

    “But the Devil, he said he owned it

    From my sins that he did summarize”
    “Well the Devil may have said that” fate replied back
    “But, my dear, he’s the Devil, he lies”

    “But I was rude and cruel in my life”

    Beethoven answered with regret

    “Yes,” Fate replied, “but the Devil left out

    That those actions were often caused because you were deaf

    And the pains that you caused in life

    You worked twice as hard to undo

    And those acts of kindness, even more than your music
    That, my friend, is you

    It is true that you made some mistakes in life
    Sometimes you seemed rude or a fool

    But it was always because of your deafness
    And not because you were evil or cruel

    You went out of your way your whole life

    To try to amend those you hurt

    And when God weighs your sins against your good deeds
    The world will be glad of your birth”

    “And what about Theresa?

    Is it now truly too late?”

    “You will see her again,” Fate replied
    “For love, it will always wait

    She’s on the other side of this night
    Which is closer than it seems

    And she will be there by your side

    When you awaken from your next dream”

    Slowly the shadows and spirits disappear. The room is now completely empty except for Beethoven who lies down on a cushioned window seat and drifts into his final sleep.


    A Final Dream


    Lay your head down
    And sleep on my shoulder
    Lay your head down
    And start a new dream
    And for tonight
    The moment is over
    Drift in a lullaby
    Here where the stars reside
    And angels are always seen

    And lay your head down
    The stars have whispered
    Hear what they say
    And know that it means
    The moon is your guide
    The stars they have kissed her
    As she goes gently by
    Light as a baby’s sigh
    Safe on a fairy tale stream

    And start a new dream
  41. A Final DreamLyrics

    A Final Dream

    Lay your head down
    And sleep on my shoulder
    Lay your head down
    And start a new dream
    And for tonight
    The moment is over
    Drift in a lullaby
    Here where the stars reside
    And angels are always seen

    And lay your head down
    The stars have whispered
    Hear what they say
    And know that it means
    The moon is your guide
    The stars they have kissed her
    As she goes gently by
    Light as a baby’s sigh
    Safe on a fairy tale stream

    And start a new dream
  42. (Closing Poetry)Lyrics

    (Closing Poetry)

    Now you think our story’s over
    And all have faded from this night
    The ghosts, spirits and the Lady Fate
    Have all faded out of sight

    And just when all seemed silent
    A window opened up
    And Twist came in his face agrin
    With what he had though up

    And picking up the only copy
    Of Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony
    He slid it behind the clock on the wall
    Where I think it still must be

    And some time on some future day
    No one can really say when
    That manuscript will be discovered
    And the music will live again

    The End

BEETHOVEN'S LAST NIGHT: THE COMPLETE NARRATED VERSION includes all of the music from the original release and, for the first time, the narration featured during live performances of the album. It comes packaged with a booklet filled with illustrations of the story, plus the full lyrics and narration.

Released March 13, 2012 [Atlantic]

Produced By Paul O'Neill

Co-Produced By Robert Kinkel