Gustave, it's alright, it's me

Gustave, please take him away

I'm so sorry

Please forgive him, he meant no harm



How could you think I wouldn't guess?

What do you mean?

How could you think I wouldn't know?

Oh, no



Do you have something to confess?

Please don't make me

I want the truth right now, if so



Once upon another time

You went off and left me alone

But that's not all you did

You left me with a son



Ever since that other time

I wished, how I wished you'd have known

I kept the secret hid, the secret my marriage forbid

What else could I have done?



Just live

Our son

Just live

My son

Just give what I could give

And take what little I deserve



My own flesh and blood

And even he recoils in horror from me

Just like his mother



Forgive me, I beg you, if you can

I've brought you nothing but woe

Tomorrow night, I'll sing with all my might

Sing for you again, then we'll go



From out of ugliness, such light

From out of darkness, such a flame

In him, my wrongness is made right

And yet he loathes me just the same



So let him shun me in disgust

Let him flee this cursed face

If I must hide from him, I must

Yet shall he be my saving grace



Oh, Christine, my Christine

If it's true, I've no reason to live

Then, Christine, then our boy

Shall have all I can give



Ah, Christine

All I create on this earth

All that I'll never be worth

All shall be his



Ten long years and he casts us aside

Ten whole years, this is how we're repaid

Ten dark years of toil and tears

And now what we've worked for will go to that child



All our hopes were at last in our grasp

All the dreams and the plans that we laid

Everything is vanishing

And we get discarded, rejected, reviled



All of the bonds in between is now torn

All of the love that we gave him was worn

All would be ours

If that bastard had never been born