My Beautiful Boy

By Elton John

On Lestat the Musical

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[GABRIELLE]

Don’t fear for me

I’ve always dreamt that I would wake and find you gone

Your future’s not to brood here

Don’t dare to ever think

You are a cold and callous son

I tell you, boy

Walk away and don’t look back

Go now, boy!

And now he’s gone

The only light that ever shone within these walls

That made my life worth living

The single thing that ever brought me any joy at all

My beautiful boy

I’ve closed the door and let him go

My beautiful boy

The echo of his voice, the memory of his rough and tumble youth

Are all I havе to cling to

Now I’ve cut the ties that bind

And I havе turned him loose

My beautiful boy

I’ve set him on the wind and pray for him

My beautiful boy

Surrendering to emptiness, I look around, and all that’s left

Is life without the one thing I adore

But should the truth be told, I would have offered up my soul to see him go

My beautiful, beautiful boy

He’ll never know the tears I held back as my heart was breaking

The pain that only mothers know

The sacrifice of seeing all you ever loved forsaken

My beautiful boy

May God’s love go with him

My beautiful boy

Surrendering to emptiness, I look around, and all that’s left

Is life without the one thing I adore

But I’ll bear no regret

I would have saved my dying breath to set him free

My beautiful, beautiful boy

My beautiful, beautiful boy