Devil Take The Hindmost - Andrew Lloyd Webber

RAOUL: Miss Giry!

He’s not Mephistopheles you know.

When it comes down to it

he’s just another circus freak.

I’m not afraid of him.

…No, it can’t be…

PHANTOM: Not afraid of me, you say?

RAOUL: Stay back or I’ll kill you, I promise you.

PHANTOM: Insolent boy!

You think you own more of her soul than I do?

RAOUL: She is my wife.

Your music may speak to her, but her heart will always

follow me.

PHANTOM: You think so?

You really think so?

Follow you, with all your… charms?

Look at you, deep in dept

Stinking drunk, pitiful

Shall we two make a bet?

Devil take the hindmost.

RAOUL: Look at you, foul as sin

Hideous, horrible

Call the stakes, deal me in

Devil take the hindmost

PHANTOM: Our Christine shall choose tonight

RAOUL: Let her choose

PHANTOM: Is she yours or mine?

RAOUL: Draw the line

PHANTOM: If she sings you lose tonight

RAOUL: I won’t lose

PHANTOM: You leave from here

RAOUL: Fine

PHANTOM: Disappear

RAOUL: Fine!

And if she won’t, if I win?

PHANTOM: All your debts, wiped away

RAOUL: Very well, let’s begin

BOTH: Devil take the hindmost

RAOUL: You think you have the odds, you think you’re in control

You think you’ve fixed the dice, well I will gladly roll

I’ll bet against the house, I’ll even double down

PHANTOM: Our old game, it’s been changed

Every throw, riskier

All the rules, rearranged

Fate has redesigned most

RAOUL: Fortune’s on my side

I won her long ago!

I won her from you then

I wager even now I’ll win her back again

And when the game is done

PHANTOM: Cut the deck, let us play

You and I, once again

In the end, either way!

BOTH: Devil take the hindmost!

Now Christine shall choose at last

Is she yours or mine?

RAOUL: We’ve a son, our bond’s secure

PHANTOM: Are you sure?

RAOUL: What?

PHANTOM: Are you so sure?

RAOUL: What do you mean?

PHANTOM: Such a child, strange to see

Talented, musical

Is he more you or me?

Which one do you find most?

RAOUL: You lie!

No woman could or ever would

Love such a man, you’re insane

So now I play for my wife

PHANTOM: Yet you won’t doubt your wife

Doubt your son, everything

Now we play for your life

BOTH: Devil take the hindmost

PHANTOM: Deal the cards, let them fall

Choose your hand, try your best

He who wins

RAOUL: I call your bluff, the game is on

And we will see who wins out

Once and for all

BOTH: Wins it all

Devil take the hindmost

PHANTOM: She walks, you leave together

Pockets full, debts paid.

She sings, you leave alone.

Devil take the hindmost

RAOUL: My God.

What have I done?

I could lose her forever.

My Christine!