~The music of the night~

My obsession with Andrew Lloyd Webber (he's a true music genius!) has resurfaced after watching The phantom of the opera on the big screen a couple of weeks ago. I have now replaced my long-lost 'The best of ALW' CD with 'The premier collection of ALW' and have been listening to it almost every night since. Here is one of my favourites!


Night time sharpens
heightens each sensation...
Darkness wakes and stirs imagination
Silently the senses
abandon their defences
Helpless to resist
the notes I write
For I compose the music of the night...

Slowly, gently
night unfurls its splendour.
Grasp it, sense it - tremulous and tender
Hearing is believing music is deceiving
Hard as lightning soft as candlelight
dare you trust the music of the night...

Close your eyes
for your eyes will only tell the truth
And the truth isn't what you want to see.
In the dark it is easy to pretend
that the truth is what it ought to be.

Softly, deftly
music shall caress you...
Hear it, feel it
secretly possess you...

Open up your mind
let your fantasies unwind
in this darkness which
you know you cannot fight -
the darkness of the music of the night...

Close your eyes
start a journey through a strange new world!
Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before!

Close your eyes
and let music set you free...
Only then can you belong to me...

Floating, falling
sweet intoxication!
Touch me, trust me
savour 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...

Come we must return -
those two fools who run my theatre
will be missing you...