The Phantom Opera Ghost

By Iced Earth

On Horror Show

Released on June 26, 2001

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[Instrumental Intro – 00:00-01:04]

[Verse 1: Matt Barlow & Yunhui Percifield]

Christine (Yunhui): I feel you, from beyond the walls you speak to me

Erik (Matt): Christine my love, Paris now will worship you

You will star soon, I'll kill to make it sure for you

Christine (Yunhui): Oh my love, won't you please show yourself to me?

Erik (Matt): Soon I'll take you, in my kingdom you're the queen

It's dark and peaceful, but my face you'll never see, no!

[Verse 2: Matt Barlow & Yunhui Percifield]

Erik (Matt): Oh Christine, on this eve I will come for you

Christine (Yunhui): Erik my love, I've waited all my life for you

Please just take me, I need to be with you

Erik (Matt): Take my hand, through the catacombs my lair awaits

Christine (Yunhui): Caverns, mazes, the underworld and the blackest lake

Enticing danger, your passion feeds me I'm your slave


[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 3: Matt Barlow & Yunhui Percifield]

Christine (Yunhui): Now I've bathed in fear, I will not leave here

Erik (Matt): Breathe deep the darkness...

Breathe deep the madness...

Christine (Yunhui): I'm so cold inside, mental suicide

Erik (Matt): Breathe deep the darkness...

Breathe deep the sadness...


[Verse 4: Matt Barlow]

Erik (Matt): Oh Christine, don't you know that it's all for you?

Carlotta's head and the other deaths I planned

All for you, to have your night in the spotlight

From now on forevermore you will only sing for me

[Bridge: Matt Barlow, Yunhui Percifield & Both]

Christine (Yunhui): So you are, you are the legend, the Phantom Opera Ghost

Erik (Matt): I am what man has made me, with his hate and cruel ways

Christine (Yunhui): Why are you?

Erik (Matt): Why am I?

Christine and Erik (Yunhui & Matt):

The Phantom Opera Ghost

Christine (Yunhui): I have to see!

Erik (Matt): You'll never see!

Christine & Erik (Yunhui & Matt):

What's behind the mask

Erik (Matt): No!


[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 5: Matt Barlow & Yunhui Percifield]

Christine (Yunhui): I'm so torn between love, death, life, and hate

Erik (Matt): Don't you doubt me, what we have is just our fate

I now own you, from this day forth you'll be my slave

Christine (Yunhui): Oh dear God, for this life I've lost the will

Erik (Matt): No, this can't be, I'd rather you die than spoil my dream

Myself I'll kill, if I can't have you no one will!


[Instrumental Outro]