“The Beauty Underneath” from Love Never Dies, is the second song in my story. During this song Erik is showing Rose down to his lair. Together they look upon many of the wonders Erik has created in his time under the opera house. The altered lyrics for the story are below. <3 If you have not read my story, please feel free to do so! You can find it at fanfiction.net, search for, “Even after a fire this Rose can Bloom”, By Alice-Rain. Enjoy!
Erik: 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?
Rose: Yes
Erik: 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 served
And surrendered to the urge?
Have been hooked as you looked at the
At the beauty underneath?
When you stare behind the night
Can you glimpse its primal might?
Might you hunger to possess
Hunger that you can’t repress?
Rose: Yes
It seems so beautiful
So strange yet beautiful
Everything’s just as you say
Erik: And She’s so beautiful
Perhaps too beautiful
What I suspected has come true
For I can tell, we both see
The very same way
Rose: It’s the music in your head
Have you followed where it led
And been graced with a 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
When it lifts its voice and sings
Don’t you feel amazing things?
Things you know you can’t confess
Things you thirst for nonetheless
Its all so beautiful
Can it be?
Almost too beautiful
Both: Do you see what I see?
Erik: To her it’s beautiful
My world is beautiful
Both: How can this be what it seems?
All of my most secret dreams
Somehow set free
Erik: You can feel it?
Rose: (yes)
Erik: Come closer
Rose:(Yes)
Erik: You’ve no fear of the beauty underneath
You can face it?
Rose: (Yes)
Erik: You can take it?
Rose:(Yes)
Erik: You see through to the beauty underneath
To the splendor
Rose:(Splendor)
Erik: And the glory
Rose: (And the glory)
Erik: To the truth of the beauty underneath!
Rose: (The beauty underneath)!