[YOUNG BEETHOVEN] 



SINCE I WAS A CHILD 

I'VE SEEN HER IN A DREAM 

A CAPTURED FAIRY TALE 

THAT ECHOES CROSS MY LIFE 



AND THOUGH I'VE COURTED HER 

SHE'S ALWAYS STAYED UNSEEN 

NOW ALL AT ONCE SHE 

GLITTERS IN THE NIGHT 



BUT THAT WAS YESTERDAY 

AND THAT ALL WAS BEFORE 

WHEN SHE WAS FAR AWAY 

A SILHOUETTE OF DREAMS 



BUT OTHERS WHISPERED 

THAT SHE WAS SO MUCH MORE 

AND SUDDENLY I NOW 

KNOW WHAT THEY MEAN 



DREAMS CHANGE 

YEARS STRAIN 

LOST ILLUSIONS 

LAST STANDS 

GOD'S HAND 

ABSOLUTION 

FOUND 



FAIRY TALE SINS 

VISIONS BY GRIMM 

ALL FORGIVEN 

LIVES SPENT IN VAIN 

NEVER RECLAIMED 

TAKE THEIR FINAL BOWS 



PICTURES AND WORDS 

VISIONS ABSURD 

MADDENED POETS 

ALL WITHIN SIGHT 

FAILURES IN LIFE 

WHO'LL NEVER KNOW IT 

LAZARUS CRIES 

THERE IN HIS EYES 

HOPE HAS RISEN 

DEPTH AND FACADE 

ALL BEFORE ME NOW 



[Together Fate and Beethoven watch the composer as a young man meeting his greatest idol, Mozart.]