Notes/prima Donna Lyrics - Phantom Of The Opera

ANDRE & FIRMIN 

Prima donna first lady of the stage! 

Your devotees are on their knees to implore you! 

Can you bow out when they're shouting your name? 

Think of how they all adore you! 

Prima donna, enchant us once again! 

Think of your muse... And of the queues round the theatre! 

Can you deny us the triumph in store? 

Sing, prima donna, once more! 

RAOUL 

Christine spoke of an angel... 

CARLOTTA 

Prima donna, your song shall live again! 

ANDRE & FIRMIN 

Think of your public! 

CARLOTTA 

You took a snub, but there's a public who needs you! 

MME. GIRY 

She has heard the voice of the angel of music... 

ANDRE & FIRMIN 

Those who hear your voice liken you to an angel! 

CARLOTTA 

Think of their cry of undying support! 

ANDRE 

We get our opera 

CARLOTTA 

Follow where the limelight leads you! 

FIRMIN 

She gets her limelight! 

ANDRE & FIRMIN 

Leading ladies are a trial! 

CARLOTTA 

Prima donna, your song shall never die! 

You'll sing again, and to unending ovation! 

RAOUL 

Orders! Warnings!Lunatic demands! 

ANDRE & FIRMIN 

Tears... oaths... lunatic demands are regular occurrences! 

CARLOTTA 

Think how you'll shine in that final encore! 

ANDRE & FIRMIN 

Surely there'll be further scenes worse than this! 

RAOUL 

Think, before these demands are rejected! 

ANDRE & FIRMIN 

Who'd believe a diva happy to relieve a chorus girl, 

who's gone and slept with the patron? 

Raoul and the soubrette, 

entwined in love's duet! 

Although he may demur, 

he must have been with her! 

You'd never get away with all this in a play, 

but if it's loudly sung and in a foreign tongue 

it's just the sort of story audiences adore, 

in fact a perfect opera! 

ALL 

Prima donna the world is at your feet! 

A nation waits, and how it hates to be cheated! 

Light up the stage with that age old rapport! 

Sing, prima donna, once more!