Prologue

Say you'll share with me

One love, one lifetime

Let me lead you from your solitude

Say you need me with you here, beside you

Anywhere you go, let me go too

That's all I ask of you

Then say you'll share with me

One love, one lifetime

Say the word and I will follow you

Share each day with me, each night, each morning

Say you love me

You know I do

Love me

That's all I ask of you…

The voices intertwine and drift through the snow-covered city of Paris, floating down, down, down and waking me from my dreams. As Christine's soprano rises triumphant over Raoul's voice I think about the meaning of their song. What wouldn't I give for a love that lasted a lifetime? My chaste lips tingle as I dream of the day they're touched by a caring kiss.

To the melody wrought by their love for each other I begin to drift back into slumber, to be suddenly brought back by a third counterpart to their tune.

I gave you my music, made your song take wing

And now, how you've repaid me, denied me and betrayed me

He was bound to love you, when he heard you sing

Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime

Say the word and I will follow you

Share each day with me, each night, each morning

You will curse the day you did not do

All that the Phantom asked of you!

Such pain! Sheer longing vibrates through the second man's voice sweetened by the heartbreak it is laced with. Who is this man? Could it be the Phantom of the Opera I've heard so much about? As the quiet falls on the snow-covered city of Paris at last I sleep, love songs trailing through to my dreams.