[Intro – Orchestra, full chaos, every instrument, percussion forward] [Verse 1 – Abigail] I saw her, I saw him I saw them in the darkness Dancing with the devil, I saw I am a vessel of God’s truth I am an instrument of God’s sight What I say in this room I say before God Almighty And God Almighty agrees with me [Response – Chorus] She saw, she saw, she saw them, she saw Agrees with her, agrees with her, God agrees [Verse 2 – John, beneath Abigail’s theme, slow, against the current] I am a fraud, I am a fraud I stand in this room and I am a fraud How do I name her liar When I cannot name myself honest [Conflict – Abigail and John, simultaneous, neither hearing the other] [Abigail] I saw her, I saw him, dancing with the devil [John] I cannot speak, I cannot speak, without speaking against myself [Abigail] I SAW, I SAW, I SAW THEM ALL [John] I CANNOT, I CANNOT, I CANNOT SPEAK [Break – Sudden silence, single cello, one repeating note] [Verse 3 – Giles, spoken, immovable, calm] I have lived eighty years on this rocky earth I have seen liars before They look like this I will not name a man to save my skin I will not name a man I will not name a man [Response – Chorus, quieter, unsettled] She saw, she saw [Verse 4 – Abigail, threatened, louder] He is lying, she is lying They are all lying I am the only truth in this room [Verse 5 – Elizabeth, thin, fragile, frightened beneath the control] I am an honest woman, I have never lied I have never lied, I have never [Elizabeth – spoken, the lie forming] He is a good man, he did not, he would not, he has never [Interruption – John, desperate, cannot reach her] Elizabeth, Elizabeth, don’t, don’t [Chorus – accelerating, the machine at full speed] She saw, he lied, she’s honest, he’s guilty God agrees, God agrees, God agrees, God agrees [Climax – All four simultaneously, each in their own melody] [Abigail] I am believed, I am believed, I AM BELIEVED [John] I cannot save her, I cannot save her, I CANNOT SAVE MYSELF [Elizabeth] I have never lied, I have never, I HAVE NEVER [Giles] I will not name a name, I will not, I WILL NOT [Final Chorus – Everyone, maximum chaos] TESTIMONY, TESTIMONY SPEAK YOUR TESTIMONY BEFORE GOD AND THIS COURT TESTIMONY, TESTIMONY WHO WILL YOU NAME WHO WILL YOU NAME WHO WILL YOU NAME [Outro – Sudden silence, single cello, one repeating note] [Giles – spoken, quiet, to God] I have said all I have to say. [Orchestra – very quiet, very slow, four bars, the melody none of them were singing, what they could have been to each other] [Silence]
