2.2 Devil Take The Hindmost

RAOUL
No, no it can't be!

PHANTOM
Not afraid of me, you say?

RAOUL
Stay back! Or I'll kill you I promise you!

PHANTOM
Insolent boy! You think you own more of her soul than I do?

RAOUL
She is my wife! Your music may speak to her, but her heart will always follow me!

PHANTOM
You think so? You really think so? Follow you with all your...charms?

Look at you, deep in debt
Stinking drunk, pitiful
Shall we two make a bet?
Devil take the hindmost

RAOUL
Look at you, foul as sin
Hideous, horrible
Call the stakes, deal me in
Devil take the hindmost

PHANTOM
Our Christine shall choose tonight

RAOUL
Let her choose

PHANTOM
Is she yours or mine?

RAOUL
Draw the line

PHANTOM
If she sings, you lose tonight

RAOUL
I won't lose

PHANTOM
You leave from here

RAOUL
Fine!

PHANTOM
Disappear

RAOUL
Fine! And if she won't, if I win?

PHANTOM
All your debts wiped away

RAOUL
Very well, let's begin

BOTH
Devil take the hindmost

PHANTOM
Our old game, it's been changed

RAOUL
You think you have the odds

PHANTOM
Every throw, riskier.

RAOUL
You think you're in control

PHANTOM
All the rules, rearranged

RAOUL
You think you've fixed the dice

PHANTOM
Well I will gladly roll

RAOUL
I'll bet against the house, I 'll even double down

PHANTOM 
Fate has redesigned us

RAOUL
Fortune's on my side

PHANTOM
Cut the deck, let us play

RAOUL
I won her long ago

PHANTOM
You and I, once again

RAOUL
I won her from you then

PHANTOM
In the end

RAOUL
I'll wager even now
I'll win her back again
And when the game is done

PHANTOM
Either way

BOTH
Devil take the hindmost! 

Now Christine shall choose at last
Is she yours or mine

RAOUL
We've a son, our bond secure

PHANTOM
Are you sure

RAOUL
What

PHANTOM
Are you so sure

RAOUL
What do you mean?

PHANTOM
Such a child, strange to see
Talented, musical

RAOUL
Huh?

PHANTOM
Is he more you or me?
Which one do you find most?

RAOUL
You lie!

PHANTOM
Yet you doubt, doubt your wife

RAOUL
No woman could, or ever would

PHANTOM
Doubt your son, everything

RAOUL
Love such a man, you're insane

PHANTOM
Now we play, for your life

RAOUL
So now I play for my life

BOTH
Devil take the hindmost

RAOUL
I call your bluff

PHANTOM
Deal the cards

RAOUL
The game is on

PHANTOM
Let them fall

RAOUL
And we will see

PHANTOM
Choose your hand, try your best

RAOUL
Who wins out

PHANTOM
He who wins

RAOUL
Once and for all 

BOTH
Wins it all

Devil take the hindmost!

PHANTOM
She walks, you leave together.
Pockets full, debts paid!
She sings...
You leave alone.

Devil take the hindmost