Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
【祈盼你此刻重現】翻唱：葉子
這是一首很悲傷的歌。
女兒在父親的墓前，希望再能見父親一麵。
Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
【祈盼你此刻重現】翻唱：葉子
這是一首很悲傷的歌。女兒在父親的墓前，希望再能見父親一麵。
You were once my one companion
你曾是我的同伴
You were all that mattered
你曾是我的一切
You were once a friend and father
你曾是位良師益友
Then my world was shattered
我的世界隨你淪陷
Wishing you were somehow here again
祈盼你此刻重現
Wishing you were somehow near
祈盼你近在眼前
Sometimes it seemed if I just dreamed
有時仿佛夢境一場
Somehow you would be here
有時仿佛就在身邊
Wishing I could hear your voice again
祈盼再次聽到你的聲音
Knowing that I never would
即使明知我在癡心妄想
Dreaming of you won't help me to do
夢中的你無法助我達成
All that you dreamed I could
你對我所有的期望夢想
Passing bells and sculpted angels
消逝的鍾聲，雕刻的天使
Cold and monumental
冰冷的存在，無盡的時光
Seem for you the wrong companions
他們似乎不該是你的同伴
You were warm and gentle
曾經的你是那樣溫暖慈祥
Too many years fighting back tears
時間可以擊退眼淚
Why can't the past just die?
為何往事無法消逝
Wishing you were somehow here again
祈盼你 此刻重現
Knowing we must say goodbye
明知我們 即將告別
Try to forgive, teach me to live
你試圖原諒 你教我生活
Give me the strength to try
你給予了我 嚐試的勇氣
No more memories, no more silent tears
多想揮別含淚的回憶
No more gazing across the wasted years
多想遺忘寂寥的歲月
Help me say goodbye
願助我忘卻
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重逢
曾經，你我攜手同行
曾經，世界因你而溫暖
曾經，你是良師益友
直到，一切都失去了色彩
望穿秋水，盼你重握我手
淚眼朦朧，恍惚就在身旁
多少次淒然夢回，長夜孤燈
猛回眸，你卻鮮活如昨
隻盼重聆芳音
奈生死茫茫無計
縱有夢中相伴
徒留空枕淚痕
漸起寒意裏，鍾聲漠漠
風起秋霜間，天使無聲
你溫情若許
豈不形單影隻？
歲歲年年
淚流心間
撒手而去
豈不留戀？
盼重握你手
隻為道聲珍重
寬恕吾錯
助我重生
多想揮別含淚的回憶
多想遺忘寂寥的歲月
願助我忘卻
請給我新生
Prologue
On the stage of the fictional Opera Populaire (based on the Palais Garnier) in 1905,an auction of old theatre props is underway. Lot 665, purchased by the elderly Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny, is a music box in the shape of a monkey; he eyes it sadly, noting that its details appear "exactly as she said". Lot 666 is a shattered chandelier that, the auctioneer explains, has a connection to "the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera". As the chandelier is uncovered, sparks burst from it and the lamps flicker to life. ("Overture") The fixture slowly ascends from the stage, up and out over the audience, until it finally comes to rest in its original position at the peak of the ceiling. During the chandelier's ascent, the years roll back and the Opéra returns to its 1880s grandeur.
Act I
It is now 1881.As Carlotta, the Opéra's resident soprano prima donna, rehearses for that evening's performance, a backdrop collapses without warning. "The Phantom! He's here!" the anxious cast members whisper. The Opera's new owners, Firmin and André, try to downplay the incident, but Carlotta refuses to continue and storms offstage. Madame Giry, the Opéra's ballet mistress, tells Firmin and André that Christine Daaé, a Swedish chorus girl and orphaned daughter of a prominent violinist, has been "well taught" and could sing Carlotta's role. With cancellation of the performance their only alternative, the owners reluctantly audition Christine, and to their surprise she is equal to the challenge. ("Think of Me")
Backstage after her triumphant début, Christine confesses to her best friend Meg (Madame Giry's daughter) that she knows her mysterious teacher only as an invisible "Angel of Music" ("Angel of Music"). The Opera's new patron, Raoul, the Vicomte de Chagny, finds Christine, his old childhood playmate, in her dressing room. ("Little Lotte") Christine reminisces with Raoul about the "Angel of Music" stories that her late father used to tell them and confides that the Angel has visited her and taught her to sing. Raoul laughs at her "fantasies" and invites her to dinner. He exits and a jealous Phantom appears in Christine's mirror in the guise of The Angel of Music ("The Mirror/Angel of Music (Reprise)"). Christine begs him to reveal himself and The Phantom obliges, then guides her into a ghostly underground realm ("The Phantom of the Opera"). They cross a subterranean lake to his secret lair beneath the opéra house. The Phantom explains that he has chosen Christine to sing his music and enchants her with his own sublime voice ("The Music of the Night"). Christine sees a mannequin resembling herself in a wedding dress, and when the mannequin suddenly moves, she faints. The Phantom picks her up and places her gently on a bed.
As the Phantom composes music at his organ, Christine awakens to the sound of the monkey music box ("I Remember…"). She slips behind the Phantom, lifts his mask, and beholds his real face. The Phantom rails at her curiosity, then ruefully expresses his longing to look normal—and to be loved by her. ("Stranger Than You Dreamt It") Feeling bad, Christine hands the mask back to the Phantom and he puts it on. He then takes Christine back to the opéra house.
Meanwhile, inside the opéra house, Joseph Buquet, the Opéra's chief stagehand—who, like Madame Giry, inexplicably knows much about the Phantom—regales everyone with tales of the "Opéra Ghost" and his terrible Punjab lasso ("Magical Lasso"). Madame Giry warns Buquet to exercise restraint. In the managers' office, Madame Giry delivers a note from the Phantom: he demands that Christine replace Carlotta in the new opera, Il Muto, or there will be a terrible disaster "beyond imagination." ("Notes…") Firmin and André assure the enraged Carlotta that she will remain the star, ("Prima Donna") but during her performance, disaster strikes. ("Poor Fool, He Makes Me Laugh") The Phantom reduces Carlotta's voice to a frog-like croak. A ballet interlude begins, to keep the audience entertained—but a series of menacing shadows can be seen on the backdrop. Suddenly the corpse of Buquet, hanging from the Punjab lasso, drops from the rafters. Firmin and André plead for calm — "It was just an accident...simply an accident!" — as the Phantom's diabolical laughter is heard.
n the ensuing mêlée, Christine escapes with Raoul to the roof, where she tells him about her subterranean rendezvous with the Phantom. Raoul is skeptical ("Why Have You Brought Me Here?/Raoul, I've Been There"), but swears to love and to protect her always. ("All I Ask of You") The Phantom, who has overheard their conversation, is heartbroken. He angrily vows revenge against Raoul ("All I Ask of You (Reprise)"), and the Opéra's mighty chandelier crashes to the stage as the curtain falls.
Act II
Six months later, in the midst of the gala masquerade ball, the Phantom, costumed as the Red Death, makes his first appearance since the chandelier disaster. ("Masquerade/Why So Silent?") He announces to the stunned guests that he has written an opera entitled Don Juan Triumphant. He demands that it be produced immediately, with Christine (who is now engaged to Raoul) in the lead role, and warns of dire consequences if it is not. He seizes Christine's engagement ring and vanishes in a flash of fire and smoke. Raoul demands that Madame Giry tell him about the Phantom. She reluctantly replies that he is a brilliant musician and magician born with a terrifyingly deformed face, who escaped from captivity in a traveling freak show and disappeared.
During rehearsals, Raoul hatches a plan to use Don Juan Triumphant as a trap to capture the Phantom, knowing the Phantom will be sure to attend its première. ("Notes/Twisted Every Way") Christine, torn between her love for Raoul and her gratitude for the Phantom's teaching, visits her father's grave, longing for his guidance. ("Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again") The Phantom appears, again under the guise of the Angel of Music. ("Wandering Child") Christine nearly falls under his spell, but Raoul arrives to rescue her. The Phantom taunts Raoul, launching fiery missiles at him, ("Bravo Monsieur") until Christine begs Raoul to leave with her. Furious, the Phantom sets fire to the cemetery.
Don Juan Triumphant opens with Christine and Ubaldo Piangi, the Opéra's principal tenor, singing the lead roles. ("Don Juan") During their duet, Christine suddenly realizes that she is singing not with Piangi, but with the Phantom himself. ("The Point of No Return") He expresses his love for her and gives her his ring, but Christine rips off his mask, exposing his deformed face to the shocked audience. As Piangi is found strangled to death backstage, the Phantom seizes Christine and flees the theatre. An angry mob led by Meg searches the theatre for the Phantom, while Madame Giry tells Raoul how to find the Phantom's subterranean lair, and warns him to beware his Punjab lasso.
In the lair Christine is forced to don the doll's wedding dress. ("Down Once More/Track Down This Murderer") Raoul finds the lair, but the Phantom captures him with his lasso. He tells Christine that he will free Raoul if she agrees to stay with him forever; if she refuses, Raoul will die. ("Final Lair") Christine tells the Phantom that it is his soul that is deformed, not his face, and kisses him, comforting him. The Phantom, having experienced kindness and compassion for the first time, sets them both free. Christine returns the Phantom's ring to him, and he tells her he loves her. She cries, forces herself to turn away, and exits with Raoul. The Phantom, weeping, huddles on his throne and covers himself with his cape. The mob storms the lair and Meg pulls away the cape—but the Phantom has vanished; only his mask remains.
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