The Phanton of Manhattan

Disfigured and chained from birth,
Giry helped me to reincarnate.
I travelled to the New World
Seeking a life to live.

Living a life in desolation
In the darkest cells of the Opera,
I mastered the art----
Everybody thinking me to be the Phantom!

Helped Chagny to reach the zenith,
I could not show my face to the world.
Being masked and draped in black,
Watching the world from the roof of my mansion---- unseen.

Stranded in a shore of darkness
The cold waves bring me sorrows.
With a vision of the past in my mind,
All I crave is to see her back in life!

No one can see me,
Rumours spreading of a Phantom,
I slip into the crowds
To greet my son.

Now that I can buy half of France,
The most powerful man in Manhattan,
My only love is here-----
But I cannot have her!

With a voice sweeter than the nightingale,
She sang next to me without recognisation,
I gave her my ring,
Though she thought it was part of the play!

No longer do I worship Mammon,
Never indulging in Hashish,
All I long for----
To get my love back.

All my life I've known hatred,
All my life I've spent in desolation,
All my life I've struggled to get back my love,
But now, I get her back------with a bullet pierced in her heart!!

My soul screamed in bewildering pain,
Like a wandering albatross it wanted to fly away
Above and across the ocean of despair,
To fly alongside the soul of my MATE!!