RAOUL
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One more.
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BARTENDER
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Oh, buddy, don't you think you've had enough? It's practically morning
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already.
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RAOUL
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One more, I said!
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BARTENDER
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All, right, all right. My shift is over anyway, so let's settle the bill,
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ok? Jeez, you're in a bad way aren't you? Worse than most that end up here.
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Here's the morning shift - maybe he'll know what to do with you.
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RAOUL
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Yes, what to do with me. That's the question, isn't it? That's always been
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the question. Ever since the beginning...
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She looks for sympathy
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I give her sorrow
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She asks for honesty
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I've none to borrow
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She needs my tender kiss
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She begs it of me
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I give her ugliness
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Why does she love me?
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She yearns for higher things
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Things I can't give her
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The rush that music brings
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I can't deliver
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And even when she sings
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And soars above me
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I try to clip her wings
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Why does she love me?
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One more drink, sir. That's what I need don't you think, sir? Leave the
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hurt behind.
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Do you hear me? Another drink!
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She wants the man I was
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Husband and father
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At least she thinks does
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She needn't bother
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Beneath this mask I wear
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There's nothing of me
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Just horror, shame, despair
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Why does she love me?
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How 'bout you, sir? Tell me what am I to do, sir? Leave the hurt behind.
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MEG
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Morning, Bernie, coffee please! Hurry up before I freeze. I'll just take it
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black. Mother said I'd find you here.
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RAOUL
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Miss Giry...
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MEG
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Do you know where you are?
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RAOUL
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Hell, I imagine
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MEG
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Around here they call it suicide hall. It's where people end up when they
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don't know where else to go. The hopeless, the desperate. Good place to
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step off the side of the pier and quietly vanish.
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RAOUL
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You seem to be a regular.
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MEG
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Me? I come here to swim
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This town is coarse and cold and mean
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It's hard to keep your conscience clean
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Faceless in the crowd
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Anything's allowed
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And so I come at dawn each day
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Come to wash it all away
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Sink into the sea
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Blue and cool and kind
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Let it set me free
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Let the past unwind
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Leave the hurt behind
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You should never have come to America. It's not a place for people like you
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and Christine. It's too easy to forget who you are and where you belong.
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That's why Mother says you must leave here. Now. Take your wife and the boy
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and go.
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RAOUL
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Leave? What about tonight? The concert, the money? Am I to just run away
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from him?
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MEG
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When the sun rises tomorrow we can all start again. Clean.
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Sail across the sea
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Put us out of mind
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Close your eyes and flee
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Let yourself stay blind
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Leave this place behind...
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Why Does She Love Me
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Andrew Lloyd Webber |