Trans-Siberian Orchestra Mephistopheles' Return Lyrics

[BEETHOVEN]

In every life, it has been said,
There comes a time to join the dead,
admit there is no second chance
and join Death in a final dance.

Across the floor eternity
until the final moments bled
and in the dark to take his hand,
accept that it is time to wed.

I don't know what I'm thinking
because all that I see
is his face grinning!
Mephistopheles!

I need to find an answer
for this one can not be
within the words of Mephistophel...

[TOWARDS TWIST]

Tell me what you think!
Tell me what you know!
Did you really think
that there would be an "ever after"?

Do you think I'm scared?
Tell me, does it show?
When inside this deafness
I can always hear his whispering

[TOWARDS GHOSTS]

There comes a time you decide
what from your life will be real
what scars you will keep alive
what are you willing to heal.

But can I gamble this night
with everything that I am?
And can I erase my life
or do I stay here and be d___ed?

[TOWARDS TWIST]

Tell me what you think!
Tell me what you know!
Did you really think
that there would be an "ever after"?

Do you think I'm scared?
Tell me, does it show?
When inside this deafness
I can always hear his laughted?

I don't know what I'm thinking
because all that I see
is his face grinning!
Mephistopheles!

I need to find an answer
for this one can not be
within the words of Mephistopheles!

[I]

Don't need this path before me!
Don't need forgotten glory!
Don't need these threats of violence!
Don't need eternal silence!

Don't need these midnight visions!
Don't need to make decisions!
Don't need to be uncertain!
Don't need this final curtain!

[II]

Somewhere out there
he still gazes
as I wander through his mazes

Death and life here,
truth or lies,
every thought is well disguised

[III]

Now it is too late
this path to take.
Don't want to lose my life this way!

Medusa dreams,
the dead still scream.
Don't want to see my life betrayed!

[IV]

All these things are now before me,
endless death or timeless glory,
on this night of ghosts returning
to the light of bridges burning.

Now it is too late
this path to take
Don't want to see my life be....

[TOWARDS TWIST]

Tell me what you think!
Tell me what you know!
Did you really think
that there would be an "ever after"?

Do you think I'm scared?
Tell me, does it show?
When inside this deafness
I can always hear his laughter?

I don't know what I'm thinking
because all that I see
is his face grinning!
Mephistopheles!

I need to find an answer
for this one can not be
within the words of Mephistopheles!

The cost of patience
when there's no time before me
of hesitation
all for this twisted glory

And my salvation,
the cost of how it's gotten,
the cost of what's gained...
all forgotten.
All forgotten!

[When Mephistopheles returns to find his offer refused, he quickly replaces it with another. If Beethoven will only give him the un-released Tenth Symphony (which no one else has heard, so he reasons it will never be missed) he will return the maestro's soul. Beethoven agonizes once more. The ghost of Mozart appears and tells him that it is the greatest musical piece ever created; it is the voice of God, and he cannot allow it to be destroyed. As the apparition of Mozart fades, he once again decides that he is unable to destroy this music.]

[In a final desperate attempt to obtain the Tenth Symphony, Mephistopheles points out through a window to a child sleeping in the gutter. He tells the old man that he owns this child's life and in great detail lists all the horrors and suffering that she will experience in her short existence.]