PHANTOM Have you ever yearned to go Past the world you think you know? Been enthralled to the call Of the beauty underneath?
Have you let it draw you in Past the place where dreams begin? Felt the full breathless pull Of the beauty underneath?
When the dark unfolds its wings Do you sense the strangest things? Things no one would ever guess Things mere words cannot express?
GUSTAVE Yes!
PHANTOM Do you find yourself beguiled By the dangerous and wild Do you feed on the need For the beauty underneath
Have you felt your senses surge And surrender to the urge And been hooked as you looked At the beauty underneath
When you star behind the night Can you glimpse its primal might Might you hunger to possess Hunger that you can't repress
GUSTAVE Yes!
It seems so beautiful So strange yet beautiful Everything's just as you said
PHANTOM And he's so beautiful Perhaps too beautiful What I suspect cannot be And yet somehow we both see The very same way
GUSTAVE Is there music in your head Have you followed where it led? And be graced with the taste of the beauty underneath Does it fill your every sense Is it terribly intense Tell me you need it too Need the beauty underneath
BOTH When he lifts his voice and sings, Don't you feel amazing things? Things you know you can't confess Things you thirst for, nonetheless
GUSTAVE It's all so beautiful
PHANTOM Can it be?
GUSTAVE Almost too beautiful
BOTH Do you see what I see?
GUSTAVE Heavenly
PHANTOM To him it's beautiful My world is beautiful
GUSTAVE How can this be what it seems
BOTH All of my most secret dreams Somehow set free!
PHANTOM You can feel it
GUSTAVE Yes
PHANTOM Come closer
GUSTAVE Yes
PHANTOM You've no fear of the beauty underneath You can face it
GUSTAVE Yes
PHANTOM You can take it
GUSTAVE Yes
PHANTOM You see through to the beauty underneath To the splendor
GUSTAVE To the splendor
PHANTOM And the glory
GUSTAVE And the glory
PHANTOM To the truth of the beauty underneath
GUSTAVE The beauty underneath
PHANTOM You'll accept it
GUSTAVE Yes
PHANTOM You'll embrace it
GUSTAVE Yes
PHANTOM Let me show you the beauty underneath To the splendor