All I Ask of You (Reprise) Lyrics by Phantom of the Opera Cast

CHRISTINE
You'll guard me, and you'll guide me...

PHANTOM
I gave you my music
made your song take wing
and now how you've repaid me
denied me and betrayed me
He was bound to love you
when he heard you sing
Christine...

CHRISTINE & RAOUL
Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime
say the word and I will follow you
Share each day with me,
each night, each morning...

PHANTOM
You will curse the day you did not do
all that the Phantom asked of you!

[Thanks to mpbandgurl for lyrics]

[Thanks to Sam for corrections]

I Remember/Stranger Than You Dreamt It Lyrics by Phantom of the Opera Cast

CHRISTINE 
I remember there was mist
swirling mist upon a vast, glassy lake
There were candles all around,
and on the lake there was a boat,
and in the boat there was a man

Who was that shape in the shadows?
Whose is the face in the mask?

PHANTOM
D*** you! 
You little prying Pandora!
You little demon
Is this what you wanted to see?
Curse you!
You little lying Delilah!
You little viper
Now you cannot ever be free! 

D*** you...
Curse you...

Stranger than you dreamt it
Can you even dare to look
or bare to think of me:
this loathsome gargoyle, who burns in h***,
but secretly yearns for heaven,
secretly... secretly...
Christine...

Fear can turn to love - you'll learn to see
to find the man behind the monster:
this repulsive carcass, who seems a beast
but secretly dreams of beauty, 
secretly... secretly... 
Oh, Christine...

Come, we must return
Those two fools Who run my
theater will be missing you.

[Thanks to Sam for corrections]

Music of the Night Lyrics by Phantom of the Opera Cast

Night time sharpens, heightens each sensation
Darkness stirs and wakes imagination
Silently the senses abandon their defenses

Slowly, gently night unfurls its splendor
Grasp it, sense it, tremulous and tender
Turn your face away from the garish light of day
Turn your thoughts away from cold unfeeling light
And listen to the music of the night

Close your eyes and surrender to your darkest dreams
Purge your thoughts of the life you knew before
Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar
And you'll live as you've never lived before

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you
Hear it, feel it secretly posses you
Open up your mind, let your fantasies unwind in this darkness that you know you cannot find
The darkness of the music of the night

Let your mind start to journey through a strange new world
Leave all thoughts of the life you knew before
Let your soul take you where you long to be
Only then can you belong to me

Floating, folding, sweet intoxication
Touch me, trust me savor each sensation
Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in to the power of the music that I write
The power of the music of the night

You alone can make my song take flight
Help me make the music of the night

[Thanks to mpbandgurl for lyrics]

[Thanks to Christine King, Rhys Thomas, Sam for corrections]

The Mirror (Angel of Music Reprise) Lyrics by Phantom of the Opera Cast

PHANTOM'S VOICE
Insolent boy!
This slave of fashion
basking in your glory!

Ignorant fool!
This brave young suitor,
sharing in my triumph!

CHRISTINE 
Angel, I hear you.
Speak - I listen . . .
stay by my side,
guide me.

Angel, my soul was weak -
forgive me . . .
enter at last, 
Master.

PHANTOM'S VOICE
Flattering child, you shall know me,
see why in shadow I hide.

Look at your face in the mirror -
I am there inside!


CHRISTINE 
Angel of Music,
Guide and guardian,
Grant to me your
glory.

Angel of Music,
Hide no longer.
Come to me, strange
Angel...

PHANTOM'S VOICE
I am your Angel of Music...
Come to me: Angel of Music ...

RAOUL
Who is that voice?
Who's in there?

PHANTOM'S VOICE
I am your Angel of Music...

RAOUL
Christine.
Christine!

PHANTOM'S VOICE
Come to me: Angel of Music ......

[Thanks to mpbandgurl for lyrics]

[Thanks to DSA9956 for corrections]

Angel of Music Lyrics by Phantom of the Opera Cast

PHANTOM 
Bravi, bravi, bravissimi

MEG
Christine, Christine

PHANTOM
Christine 

MEG 
Where in the world have you been hiding
Really, you were perfect
I only wish I knew your secret
Who is your great tutor

CHRISTINE
Meg 
When your mother brought me here to live
Whenever I’d come down here alone
To light a candle for my father
A voice from above
And in my dreams
He was always there
You see, when my father lay dying
He told me I will be protected by an angel
An angel of music

MEG
Christine, do you believe?
Do you think the spirit of your father is coaching you?

CHRISTINE 
who else, meg?
Father once spoke of an angel
I used to dream he'd appear
Now as I sing, I can sense him
And I know he's here
Here in this room he calls me softly
Somewhere inside hiding
Somehow I know he's always with me
He, the unseen genius

MEG
Christine, you must have been dreaming
Stories like this can't come true
Christine, you are talking in riddles
And it's not like you

CHRISTINE
Angel of Music
Guide and guardian
Grant to me your glory

MEG
Who is this angel
This...

BOTH
Angel of Music
Hide no longer
Secret and strange angel

CHRISTINE
He's with me, even now

MEG
Your hands are cold

CHRISTINE
All around me

MEG 
Your face, Christine, is white

CHRISTINE
It frightens me

MEG
Don't be frightened

MME. GIRY
No, no
You did very well, my dear
He's pleased with you

FIRMIN
Ah, Vicomte, vicomte I think we've made
quite a discovery with Miss Daae

ANDRE
Perhaps we can present her to you, 

FIRMIN
dear Vicomte

RAOUL 
Gentlemen, if you wouldn't mind, this is one
visit I should prefer to make unaccompanied.
Thank you

FIRMIN
It would appear they've met before

ANDRE
Yes

[Thanks to mpbandgurl for lyrics]

[Thanks to brownie, Sam for corrections]

Think of Me Lyrics by Phantom of the Opera Cast

CHRISTINE:
Think of me, think of me fondly,
when we've said goodbye.
Remember me once in a while -
please promise me you'll try.
When you find that, once again, you long
to take your heart back and be free -
if you ever find a moment,
spare a thought for me

We never said our love was evergreen,
or as unchanging as the sea -
but if you can still remember
stop and think of me . . .

Think of all the things
we've shared and seen -
don't think about the way things
might have been . . .

Think of me, think of me waking,
silent and resigned.
Imagine me, trying too hard
to put you from my mind.
Recall those days
look back on all those times,
think of the things we'll never do -
there will never be a day,
when I won't think of you . . .

RAOUL:
Can it be? Can it be Christine?
Bravo!
Long ago, it seems so long ago
How young and innocent we were...
She may not remember me,
but I remember her...

CHRISTINE
Flowers fades,
The fruits of summer fade,
They have their seasons, so do we
but please promise me, that sometimes
you will think of me!

[Thanks to mpbandgurl for lyrics]

Phantom of the Opera Lyrics by Phantom of the Opera Cast

CHRISTINE
In sleep he sang to me
In dreams he came
That voice which calls to me and speaks my name
And do I dream again for now I find
The Phantom of the Opera is there
Inside my mind

PHANTOM
Sing once again with me
Our strange duet
My power over you grows stronger yet
And though you turn from me to glance behind
The Phantom of the Opera is there 
Inside your mind

CHRISTINE 
Those who have seen your face
Draw back in fear
I am the mask you wear

PHANTOM
It's me they hear...

BOTH
Your/My spirit and my/your voice in one combined
The Phantom of the Opera is there
Inside my/your mind

BACKGROUND
He’s there, the phantom of the opera!

CHRISTINE
He’s there, the phantom of the opera

PHANTOM
In all your fantasies, you always knew
that man and mystery . . .

CHRISTINE 
. . . were both in you . . .

BOTH
And in this labyrinth, 
where night is blind,
the Phantom of the Opera
is there/here inside your/my mind . . .

PHANTOM
Sing, my Angel of Music!

CHRISTINE
He's there,
the Phantom of the Opera . . .
(vocalizing)

PHANTOM
Sing, Sing
Sing for me
Sing, my Angel of music
Sing for me!

[Thanks to mpbandgurl for lyrics]

[Thanks to Sarah, Rosemary H, Sam for corrections]

The Phantom of the Opera soundtrack lyrics by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Phantom of the Opera Cast Lyrics	Prologue
Phantom of the Opera Cast Lyrics	Overture/Hannibal
Phantom of the Opera Cast Lyrics	Think of Me
Phantom of the Opera Cast Lyrics	Angel of Music
Phantom of the Opera Cast Lyrics	Little Lotte
Phantom of the Opera Cast Lyrics	The Mirror (Angel of Music Reprise)
Phantom of the Opera Cast Lyrics	Phantom of the Opera
Phantom of the Opera Cast Lyrics	Music of the Night
Phantom of the Opera Cast Lyrics	Magical Lasso
Phantom of the Opera Cast Lyrics	I Remember/Stranger Than You Dreamt It
Phantom of the Opera Cast Lyrics	Notes/Prima Donna
Phantom of the Opera Cast Lyrics	Poor Fool, He Makes Me Laugh/Il Muto
Phantom of the Opera Cast Lyrics	Why Have You Brought Me Here/Raoul I've Been There
Phantom of the Opera Cast Lyrics	All I Ask of You
Phantom of the Opera Cast Lyrics	All I Ask of You (Reprise)
Phantom of the Opera Cast Lyrics	We Hall All Been Blind
Phantom of the Opera Cast Lyrics	Don Juan
Phantom of the Opera Cast Lyrics	Point of No Return
Phantom of the Opera Cast Lyrics	Chandelier Crash
Phantom of the Opera Cast Lyrics	Down Once More/Track Down This Murderer
Phantom of the Opera Cast Lyrics	Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
Phantom of the Opera Cast Lyrics	Masquerade
Phantom of the Opera Cast Lyrics	Learn To Be Lonely
Phantom of the Opera Cast Lyrics	Notes / Twisted Every Way
Phantom of the Opera Cast Lyrics	No One Would Listen
Phantom of the Opera Cast Lyrics	Wandering Child

Daddy Long Legs- A Review

It's probably one of those sad things about me that I take rootless interest in people I don't know and do a whole lot of aimless wondering. It feels creepy on bad days. Daddy Long Legs is weird for me 'cause it felt both not creepy and totally creepy. It must have been delicious for "Daddy" to get letters from someone who didn't know who she was writing to, be privy to hopes and desires and not have to figure his own out. (Too bad the sense that he knew them too well was creepy.) He had eight legs and none to hold with. (He was thinking with another appendage anyway.)

My favorite part of Daddy Long Legs is reading about how they survived on what they had then! Jerusha/Judy loves Jane Eyre, Stevenson, Little Women (only in college. She didn't have them before then). I've been thinking about Iranian readers of Jean Websters books. I used to email a Malay girl a few years back and she'd tell me about movies she had to watch in secret. Sometimes I'd disappoint her because I didn't value stuff like family honor. Are Websters books popular because they approach the line of freedom and step back behind firm lines of society and family? I would mentally shelve Webster under the heading of "Safe to have".

Daddy Long Legs is cozy and warm like inside the belly of a taun taun.
She calls him daddy.  The nick name is cute (daddy long legs 'cause his shadow looked spidery and long legged). It wouldn't be creepy if she didn't ask if she should still call him daddy in the last letter, now that they are engaged.

Did he choose to sponsor her for college as grooming for future wifedom? That's gross. That's what was creepy to me. She's supposed to become a writer. Jerusha doesn't know what she wants. Sure, parents pressure their kids to be doctors or something. (If he was paying for her to attend med school she'd dump him as soon as she graduated.) What is this vicarious living slash wife hunting? Don't know if I like it... Jerusha/Judy doesn't roll over for Jervis the man she knows, at least. It's lucky for her that she didn't figure it out (at first I forgave her because she grew up in an orphan asylum. Once she begins reading voraciously it is more troubling that her imagination couldn't do the numbers) because she felt so grateful to the "trustee" (this was creepy because inmates with special benefits are called this now) for her opportunities. It's a trap! (Picture your favorite Admiral Ackbar picture here. He smells fishy.)

His condition is that she write letters to him, letters he'll presumably never read, as well as standard great grades stuff. Jerusha/Judy takes to writing these letters with glee, sometimes annoyance or resigned longing, because she's never had anyone in all her life to write to. The relief to finally talk was the good part. The charm of Daddy Long Legs are the confidences that she makes in those letters. I liked how the girl tried to catch up to all the girls her own age, reading books she missed out on, the newness of academia and bigger social circles that can be taken for granted by those who have them. The weaker part is that it is the "safe" and "allowed to have". (I'm not begrudging anyone who has to have that. This is with me as a reader in mind. I wonder what other people want even as I'm hopeless at reading for anyone else.)

The downside is that it is one sided. Daddy/Jervis does not get to speak and over her shoulder it was easy to view him as someone who wanted to bottle her innocence and vibrance and direct it himself. When the world should have widened it cut off. Daddy Long Legs ends too soon and footnotes the growing up past the newness. Sometimes people tell themselves things. Jerusha tells herself she's over her past of being an orphan. She's not, it made her who she was. The telling and back and forth on that felt like a nervous tic, something to do with your hands when nervous, that one cannot disguise. Other things, being "grateful" and learning to smile through tedium was telling. Who wants to read a self help book? Letters should be like talking to yourself and to someone you care about at the same time. Mantras are not going to keep The Beatles from splitting up.

Yeah, yeah it was written eons ago. She marries a bossy man who "knows what's best" for her. If I were her friend getting letters about this guy I'd not worry about her because she knows when she's taken advantage of and told to be grateful (like the mistress of the asylum she tries to scorn with tongue and cheek but cannot help biting the insides of her cheeks not to scream). I liked Jerusha/Judy. I didn't fall in love with her. I'd have written back and asked questions. Maybe then.

Daddy waited too long to write letters (he does eventually, as Jervis. We don't get to read them). He could get to be warm too.

the fact that she called her romantic interest Daddy throughout the entire book wigs me a bit, and Jervis is so high-handed and lacking in candour that I'm deeply suspicious of him, but I'm gonna put down Judy's trilling that he's right most of the time because he's years older than her to the mushy-brainedness of the first flush of love, and believe that she's going to be able to handle him.

My dearest daddy long legs

 I decided to link this to tumblr because I have so much stories to tell about this thing.
When it comes to my very first anime', i didn't remember the very first day I watched my very first anime'... or "cartoons"-that's what I called it when i'm in my elem years,(haha, as if i'm old).
But, the first title that comes into my mind when I was a kid is..

Judy Abott.(Daddy Long Legs)

 Judy Abbott

Genres: slice of life, drama, romance

Plot Summary: Daddy Long Legs is based on the novel of the same name by Jean Webster. It chronicles the adventures of Judy Abbott, an orphan in New York. During a meeting for the superintendent, with other important and rich people in attendance, a scholarship is offered to Judy by a mysterious benefactor. Catching only a glimpse of his tall shadow as he leaves, Judy calls him "Daddy Long Legs" and writes him letters every month as per his request. While studying at the Lincoln Memorial school, she makes many friends and learns about a world she never knew about before.

The time I saw this episode when she catched a glimpse of someone that she doesn't know and came to help her makes my heart jump because it is so magical and mysterious.

I like those episodes of Judy writing letters about her stories at school and receiving them from a name of "John Smith".

It is like this anime open up a world of romance that exists even if the couple is far away. At that time, long distance relationship matters(even if it's not a romantic atmosphere at first) and can end into happy one. It offered me about innocent love and I realized how love is(well, that's what I think that time).

It turns out that Jervis Pendleton(friend's uncle), her friend who visited her and his friends is her daddy long legs. He who always rescues her whenever possible and deliver warmth and love that Judy didn't felt before.

How am I gonna say the ending.... I will never forget the ending of this epic anime.

They married after those problems(last few episodes). I remember that I almost cried. Good thing, it is my summer break that day and don't have any internet yet.(long live net!)

So, that's it. If you never watched it yet, you're missing a good anime'.

;)