Melodie de Paris Christine: La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la Café Owner: Bonjour, mademoiselle! Christine: Bonjour! La la la la la.... Person #2: "Who is she?" Person #3: Never seen her before, have you? Christine: La la la la la la..... Person #4: What's she selling? Christine: La la la la la la..... Person #5: What do you have there for us, mademoiselle? Christine: A new song. For sale! Just published! All about Paris! Crowd: Ahh! Paris! Christine: Melody, melody, melody, melody, Sung so melodiously. Melody, melody My kind of melody, gentle and flowing and free. Soaring above every rooftop, Whispering under each tree. Melody, melody, My melodie de Paris Paree is the rain Paree is the pain of a lover's goodbye It's the stare when your eye meets a stranger, ever dangerous. Crowd: Paree is the sun Christine: That's right! Paree, if there's one perfect place I must be It is only ici à Paris. Crowd: Melody, melody, melody, melody Sung so melodiously Melody, melody My kind of melody Gentle and flowing and free Christine: Soaring above every rooftop Whispering under each tree Christine: Melody, melody My melodie de Paris Count: Mademoiselle, forgive this intrusion, but what is your name? Christine: Christine Daeé. Count: Christine Daeé, I am Phillipe de Chandon, a connoisseur of music and beauty. You waste your time selling songs. Christine: What? Count: It's true. It's not fair. All Paris should hear your voice. That is how good you are. Have you ever considered a career in the opera? Christine: In the opera? Count: Yes, well, I can see you have. You'll of course need lessons. A fine, natural voice is not nearly enough,as I'm sure you know. Here is my card. I am one of the opera's principal patrons. Present this to Gerard Carriere, the company manager, and he'll take care of you. I'd take you there myself but, alas, business calls me away. Christine! A tout à l'heure. Person #1: The Count de Chandon! Person #3: The champagne king! Christine: Me...at the Paris Opera! Paris is a fool Paris is the boulangerie on the square It's the air over fields called "Elysian" Ah, Parisian air! Paris is l'amour Paris, comme toujours If there's one place for me It is only ici à Paris. Christine/Crowd: Melody, melody, melody, melody Sung so melodiously Melody, melody My kind of melody Gentle and flowing and free Soaring above every rooftop Whispering under each tree Melody, melody My melodie de Pa-- Melody, melody My melodie de Paris! De Paris De Paris
Where In The World Where is the path that leads out from this place, now that all has been changed on this day? Where is the sense of the life that I lead, now that music's been taken away? Why was I born to this grave, languishing deep in this tomb? Oh, for an angel of music to come and restore a small glimmer of light to my gloom. Where in the world, in the vast open world Is a voice that can sing? Every note building high, letting free, letting fly like a bird taking wing Where in the world? If it can be where is she? What little town hides a girl in a gown with a throat like a lark? With a voice that is strong Who with effortless song makes a light in the dark? Where in the world? Where in the world? Not a day I’ll rest, till that voice is found Search on the quays in the streets, the cafés Find the one I desire You will know she is near by a warmth in your ear And your soul catching fire Out in the world somewhere She who was born to command by singing She with the toll of a bell The wind is ringing And she who will hardly suspect what she is bringing To a plan I weave with grand designs Go in the world Don't return from the world Till you find me the one With the stance of a queen And an eye as serene And as bright as the sun can shine Find in the world This mirage that I see And from the world You will bring her to me And I'll make her mine
This Place is Mine Where does the time fly? Simply too few hours in the day! Oh a diva's work is never done No relief, no time for fun Not if the diva has to run An opera company! Every small detail to supervise Every pretty face to scru~~~tinize I plan beneath these eyes This opera company why take on this arduous chore? Sleepless nights I pace across my bedroom floor Why do I live completely for this opera company? 'Cause it's mine, from the stalls To the portraits on the walls To the balconies and loges far and near It belongs all to me, every item that you see From the cellar to the crystal chandelier from the fluted marble grand facade To the elevated promenade From every toilet bowl--to every leading role This place is mine! I will sing, I will glow I will never let it go I will hold it ever captive in my hand Like a god, like a queen, I will enter any scene And control it like a kingdom I command And I pity any baritone Who attempts to tread the stage I own With no polite request... he's here at my behest 'Cause it's all mine! My curtain and my canopy My song, my key, my chart My grand romantic destiny, From here my life will start I'll be out on the stage Looking great and half my age Every chance I get, I'll get them on their feet! I will burn, I will scheme I will realize my dream 'Cause if I'm not in a light, I'm incomplete And the best part I'm just coming to... How they'll all applaud for you-know-who I can't believe I'm here--and this is my career It must be seen, like a torch We'll engrave it on the porch! Like an edict, like a beacon, like a sign! This place is mine!