ARMAND Just look at you! Who do you think you are? To flaunt our laws with your rash ways. To mock our rules with disregard.
LESTAT Just look at me, well, I say look at you. You hug these walls like half starved rats. A filthy cowering vermin crew!
ARMAND We were born the devil’s darkest And shun your forms of gaudiness. While you parade among the living, We haunt the solemn world of death!
ENSEMBLE We haunt the solemn world. Haunt the solemn world of death! You break the Dark Laws! You'll die for your sins!
Lestat Why is it a sin to walk among mortals?
Armand You threaten the secrecy we have protected for thousands of years. We exist to strike fear into the hearts of men. Our Dark Laws forbid us to seek mortal pleasures, or enter their holy places, or go about as one of them!
ARMAND Your presence here is poison in our veins! Your human traits sour our beliefs. Your arrogance should be your shame!
ENSEMBLE Your arrogance, Arrogance, Arrogance! Should be your shame! Break the Dark Laws! You'll die for your sins!
Lestat You're a hypocrite! If we are sinners, so are you. Yes, we went into God's house but Armand followed us in there.
Armand Who among you would believe this heretic? We have been cast out by God! If I had gone into a church he would have struck me dead.
ARMAND Beware this smooth tongued libertine. He’ll share with you his grand demise.
LESTAT See his logic crumple like a corpse. No god or monster rules your lives!
Lestat And there it is. Your Dark Laws are lies. A cross can't harm you! This sad ghost has held you in a grip of fear and superstition for far too long. Everything he has taught you to believe is a lie!
LESTAT Trust in me. There is no need For anyone to live like this, and not believe. The night holds more than darkness and the stars. Don’t fear the world out there, because of who you are. Just free yourselves and you will see There is no need to live like this. No need!
Armand Whatever happens in years to come, remember this was his doing. I gave you sanctuary, Laurent. I gave you purpose! And he destroyed all of it! This is finished, but you and I have only begun.
LESTAT Trust in me. There is no need For anyone to live like this and not believe! I can only give you hope, not show you how. The chains that held you fast No longer bind you now. Just trust yourselves and you will see There is no need to live like this. You're free!