MERCEDES: My God, my heart beats faster And my mind is racing Could it be…? Could it be that you’ve come back to life? I know those eyes following me Dark and familiar and deep as the sea I know that face, strange though it seems Younger and kinder it haunts all my dreams How can you stand there? A whisper from me Yet, somehow be so far away In eyes once familiar how stranger I seem With so many words left to say
EDMOND: This man is dead He is no more He died a little each day Like a thief, the Chateau D’If has stolen him away The mind plays tricks You are confused The man you seek is long gone Dead and cold A story told By those he trusted, those he loved, and those who then moved on Both singing different lyrics at the same time:
EDMOND: I am a ghost; just a mirage Who chases traces of you
MERCEDES: There in that voice Traces of you Dark and familiar and deep as the sea
EDMOND: This man is dead He is no more And though it’s torturing me
MERCEDES: I know those eyes Torturing me
BOTH: Can either of us really ever be free? How can you stand there? A whisper from me When you are still so far away And why does the truth seem too hard to be true? With so much broken