Overture Lyrics

Overture lyrics

[On a late night in the spring of 1827 the city of Vienna is experiencing the
largest lightning storm in its long history. Within a large disheveled room,
Ludwig Von Beethoven is slumped over his piano and on the piano sits the just
completed manuscript for his Tenth Symphony. It is his final, and he is
certain, his greatest work.]







SINCE THE TIME WHEN RA AND ISIS



RAISED THE SPHINX OUT OF THE SAND



AND APOLLO DREAMED ATHENA



AND MEN BEGAN TO UNDERSTAND







THAT WHEN DARKNESS FOLDS ON DARKNESS



IN THE RESTLESS TIDES OF NIGHT



AND LIGHTNING RAISES SHADOWS



AND FOR MOMENTS GIVES THEM LIFE







IT'S BEEN SAID BY THOSE WHO PONDER



THAT IT SURELY IS A SIGN



THAT A LIFE TOUCHED BY THE STARS



IS NOW RUNNING OUT OF TIME







AND THAT SOMEWHERE IN THAT DARKNESS



IN THE HEART OF THAT GREAT STORM



THE WORLD RETURNS A SOUL



THAT THE GODS CAUSED TO BE BORN







AND THIS WAS SUCH A STORM



THE KIND ONE RARELY SEES IN LIFE



FOR IN A ROOM NOW FILLED WITH SHADOWS



THE GREAT BEETHOVEN WAS SPENDING



HIS LAST NIGHT







[From the shadows a beautiful spirit, Fate, and her deformed dwarf son, Twist,
emerge to inform Beethoven of what he has already deeply suspected, that this
is to be his last night on earth. They are accompanied by numerous spirits and
ghosts from his past.]