(Intro – Haunting, Whispered Chants Over an Ominous Organ Melody) Shadows dance upon the stage, A ghostly voice, a soul in rage… Bound in sorrow, lost in time, A love defiled, a fate malign… (Verse 1 – Slow, Operatic, Mournful Yet Grand) Beneath the grand and gilded halls, Where chandeliers in silence fall, A lonely specter waits unseen, A heart in chains, a soul unclean. His voice a whisper in the dark, A song of love, a sorrowed spark, Yet cursed he stands, behind the veil, A wretched fate, a doomed travail. (Pre-Chorus – Rising Tension, Choir Backing in Latin) Domine tenebrarum, audi clamorem, Cor suum fractum, amorem perditum! (Chorus – Powerful, Sweeping and Tragic) Phantom of the hollow mask, Sing your sorrow, breathe your past! In shadow’s waltz, in cursed embrace, Forever lost—no time, no place! Phantom of the hollow mask, Trapped in echoes none surpass! No love remains, no dawn may rise, Only the ghost behind the eyes… (Verse 2 – More Dramatic, Intensity Builds) Through hidden halls and crimson drapes, His music weeps, yet none escape, A touch of silk, a stolen breath, A kiss beneath the hands of death. For love he calls, for love he cries, Yet in her gaze, damnation lies, A monster’s heart, a dream defiled, Forever doomed, forever exiled! (Bridge – Choir Chanting in Latin, Organ Crescendoing to Madness) Miserere nobis, anima errans! Spiritus carceratus, amor in fumo! (Chorus – Thunderous, The Phantom’s Cry to the Heavens) Phantom of the hollow mask, Sing your sorrow, breathe your past! In shadow’s waltz, in cursed embrace, Forever lost—no time, no place! Phantom of the hollow mask, Trapped in echoes none surpass! No love remains, no dawn may rise, Only the ghost behind the eyes… (Outro – Soft, Fading, The Phantom’s Final Lament as the Candlelight Dies) No light… no breath… No song… no death… Only silence… only stone… Forever masked… forever alone…
