The Pagan Ave Maria
Esmeralda
Ave Maria
Please pardon me
Of in your house
I have come stealing
Ave Maria
No one ever taught me
About kneeling
Ave Maria
Please will you keep me
From the misery, madness, and fools
Who rule this evil world?
Ave Maria
I’m a stranger and you’re my last recourse
Ave Maria
Please can’t you hear me
Please take me down all these walls between us
We all should be as one
Ave Maria
Please watch over my life night and day
Ave Maria
Oh ! Please protect me
Please guard me and my love now I pray
Ave Maria
Your love will kill me
Frollo
I feel a wave of passion
Move through my heart with such pain
I have no time to reason
So I just let passion reign
I let go so easily
On a night as warm as sin
Midnight swimmer, midnight sea
I will not come back again
Your love will kill me
Your love will kill me
And you will bear my curse
As long as my life will be
Your love will kill me
Your love will kill me
And I saw it would be
When I looked at you
When you look at me
Your love will kill me
Your love will kill me
Your love will kill me
Your love will kill me
My sin and my obession
Crazy desire you bring
I know there’s no salvation
I see our bodies burning
Your gypsy dreams all haunt me
I live to see your dances
Please raise your eyes and want me
Please give me all the chances
Your love will kill me
Your love will kill me
And I will bear my curse
As long as my life will be
Your love will kill me
Your love will kill me
And I saw it would be
When I looked at you
When you look at me
Your love will kill me
Your love will kill me
Your love will kill me
Your love will kill me
You brought the spring time to fill
My heart in its winter chill
I lost my strength and my will
And now my tears start to spill
I never knew such desire
Just looking into your eyes
And now the soul in me cries
And now the night is on fire
Your love will kill me
Your love will kill me
And I will bear my curse
As long as my life will be
Your love will kill me
Your love will kill me
And I saw it would be
When I looked at you
When you look at me
Your love will kill me
Your love will kill me
Your love will kill me
Your love will kill me
Your love will kill me
Your love will kill me
Your love will kill me
Gringoire
The great bells do not play
In Notre-Dame today
Quasimodo hides up above
Quasimodo is sick with love
Frollo
The bells have lost their voice
For three days by choice
Quasimodo is sad
Quasimodo is going mad
Gringoire and Frollo
Quasimodo dies for love
Moon
Gringoire
Moon
You who shine your light
Bright
On the Paris night
See How a man
Suffers all for love
Clear
Solitary star
So far
When the day returns
Please hear
Up there so high
The cry of the world
Please hear the cry
Of a man in pain
For whom
All those million stars
Don’t shine
Like those shining eyes
He loves
With a mortal love
Moon
Moon
Please don’t disappear
Before
You have time to hear
Just hear
How cries the heart
Of the human beast
Please hear the cry
Quasimodo cries
He cries
For his heart is full
His voice
Over mountain flies
So high
That I know it flies to you
Moon
See
How this man aspires
To join
His poor voice with angels
Moon
You who shine your light
For
Poets as they write
How a man
Suffers for love
For love
God you made the world all wrong
Quasimodo
God you made the world all wrong
I’m so ugly – she’s so fine
I would love her my life long
But she never would be mine
No he owns her heart and soul
Without giving her a thing
And she thinks he’ll make her whole
With the love she thinks he’ll bring
She will lie down at his touch
And believe his lies with pride
It’s his face she loves so much
She can’t see what’s deep inside
God you made the world all wrong
He’s so rich and I’m so poor
He will make her life a song
He will give her nothing more
God you made the world all wrong
Let her have her shining knight
Beauty to the rich belongs
Not to us outside the light
I am just a ugly stain
That the world just wants to hide
God you gave me so much pain
Were you ever on my side?
God you made the world all wrong
I have nothing, he has all
But I’ll tell her all along
He won’t be there if she falls
He was born to silk and lace
To make love and to make war
I was born without a face
God what did you make me for?
Tell me what side
God is on Those whose silver buys the Host?
Or those who pray to God alone
Day and night, this Holy Ghost ?
Can this Jesus we adore
Save this blessings only for
Those three Kings of gold and myrrh
And leave the shepherds at the door ?
God you made the world so wrong
I’m so ugly, she’s so fine
I will love her my life long
But she never will be mine
I’m a priest
Frollo
I was a happy man until I saw your face
I hid my need away in some dark secret place
All that power of sex I kept down and I never let go
I had only one design the truth of God and man to know
Oh I’m priest and I love this girl
I love with a love that destroys my world
Against wind and the tide I could stand any shock
Straight and proud like Notre-Dame upon her rock
Then you stole in my heart and awakened desire
I dream I’m inside you and I wake up on fire
Oh I’m priest and I love this girl
I love with a love that destroys my world
I let no woman near, I suffered for God’s care
In the heart of the night I saw the lightning flare
I looked out from my room, distracted from my prayer
The day had just begun, and you were standing there
Oh I’m priest and I love this girl
I love with a love that destroys my world
Oh I’m priest and I love this girl
Heal me with your touch – or hurt me once again
Make me suffer for my sin
Just lead me on to Hell, and I’ll deny my Christ
For Hell, with you, is Paradise
Oh I’m priest and I love this girl
I love with a love that destroys my world
Oh I’m priest and I love this girl
This girl
The birds they put in cages
Esmeralda
Will the birds they put in cages
Ever ride upon the wind?
Will the children life outrages
Ever learn to love again?
I lived my life like a swallow
I arrived here with the springtime
All the little streets I’d follow
All the gypsy song were mine
Where’s my friend who rings the church bells?
Where are you my Quasimodo?
They will hang me as the light swells
You can break these bars I know
Quasimodo
Esmeralda, have you left me?
Do you hide yourself away?
I have counted every hour
I have missed you every day
Have you left upon a journey
With your handsome, shining soldier
With no marriage, taking love free
Like the gypsy girl you are?
Have you died out in the small streets
With no prayer to get to Heaven?
There’s a priest who counts your heartbeats
If he comes near, you must run
Esmeralda
You remember at the street fair
Quasimodo
When they hurt me on the great wheel
Esmeralda
When you begged, I gave you water
Quasimodo
At your feet I had to kneel
Quasimodo and Esmeralda
On that day our friendship started
It will last as long as we live
Once together never parted
All we have to give we’ll give
Will the birds they put in cages
Ever ride upon the wind?
Will the children life outrages
Ever learn to love again?
Cast away
Clopin
Cast away
Souls at bay
It’s our dream
They betray
Now they say
We can’t stay
Prayers we pray
Lost today
Put the shade
Of your skin
With the shade
Of my skin
Put the song
That you sing
With the dance
That I bring
Refugees
Downward bound
Fill the streets
Of your town
Can’t we make a world
To which everyone belongs?
Can’t we make a world
Without fears,
Without frontiers?
We’re called names
We’re blamed
We’re kept down
We are shamed
In the night
Torture comes
Try to speak
Without tongues
My homeland
I hold here
In my heart
Every near
In your land
I find tears
Words that hurt
Things to fear
In my heart
Summer dies
From your gray
Winter Skies
Can’t we make a world
To which everyone belongs?
Can’t we make a world
Without fears,
Without frontiers?
Cast away
Souls at bay
It’s our dream
They betray
Now they say
We can’t stay
Prayers we pray
Lost today
Cast away
Cast away
Dance my Esmeralda
Quasimodo
When the years have all come and gone
They’ll find beneath the ground
Our bodies joined as one
Showing how we were bound
How much Quasimodo once loved
Esmeralda the gypsy girl
How he was marked by God above
Just to help him to bear his cross
Just to help him to bear his cross
Eat my body and drink my blood
Vultures of Montfaucon
So that death more than his life could
Join our two names as one
Let my poor soul just fly away
From the miseries of this earth
Let my love find the light of day
In the light of the universe
In the light of the universe
Dance my Esmeralda
Sing my Esmeralda
Dance just one more time for me
You’ll know I’ll die for love of you
Dance my Esmeralda
Sing my Esmeralda
Please let my poor soul fly free
It is not death to die for you
Dance my Esmeralda
Sing my Esmeralda
Please come sleep here in my arms
You’ll know I’ll die for love of you
Dance my Esmeralda
Sing my Esmeralda
Beyond, and beyond and beyond
It is not death to die for you
Dance my Esmeralda
Sing my Esmeralda
Please let my poor soul fly free
It is not death to die for you