The Curtain Falls (the Tale Continues) Lyrics - Bethzaida

Hear my tale of tragedy: 

Faustus: 

"Alas, philosophy I have explored 

as well as medicine and law 

add to these regrettably 

my studies in theology 

Yet here I sit, a foolish bore 

no wiser than I was before 

No dog can live like this 

knowledge gained is far from bliss 

So I resolved my soul to free 

through blackest magic and dark alchemy" 

(Goethe: Faust) 

And from my library old 

I have this book which I am told 

Holds the key to strangest lands 

Places never travelled by man 

It will, no doubt, open my eyes 

through Hell I will finally find my Paradise 

The Fool: 

From browsing through this book I have learned 

that all that I have ever yearned 

may be accomplished easily 

with words uttered feasibly 

As long as I in my circle remain 

nothing can harm me, the demons are chained 

And with the next word I do burn 

The devils back to Hell return 

Faustus: 

As a fool summons a devil, so will I 

summon the Fallen Angel of Light 

And with his widom in my sight 

I will remain (both day and night) 

as happy as a man can be 

for no knowledge will be strange to me 

Of stars in heaven I will know 

As life itself I will explore 

Rain and thunder I do endure, likewise 

fire and ice 

the elements are torturing me 

with the only purpose that I shall see 

and know the wisdom of the lord 

Lucifer I summon thee! 

Mephistopheles: 

I have come to visit you this late 

(although your spells are out of date) 

To see who mocks the name of God 

he might be of interest to my lord 

Faustus: 

Then I will speak, and you hear this: 

In my search for eternal bliss 

I will give my very soul to you 

If what you claim is really true 

Then you will serve me loyaly 

obey my orders accurately 

For me accomplish any task 

bring me the moon if I should ask 

When time is up you claim your prize: 

My soul forever absent from heavenly paradise 

As I do sign this covenant 

in blood from a cut in my hand 

My soul is not for God to claim 

I will have twenty-four years with maidens and fame 

And now I do enquire of you 

The secrets of life, of Oceans blue 

of stars upon the mighty sky 

of moon and planets far up high 

Mephistopheles: 

That is not for man to know 

as words can not tell what they are of 

and man cannot grasp what words cannot command 

for words are far more glorious than ever was man 

Faustus: 

Your tracherous lies are powerless 

You do not convince me, for I stress: 

do I not grasp love and hate, 

pleasure and pain, lust and fate ? 

I cannot describe these, yet I know 

that in my heart with fire they flow 

How I repent my loathsome deeds, 

these devils do not fullfill my needs... 

Mephistopheles: 

Faustus, I am not at all thrilled 

you try to escape, yet you have no will 

but to bath in all pleasures that flesh can give 

even though, as it appears, your virgin is a devil 

and now is the day of your fears 

I will collect what is mine after twelve years 

as day and night I gave you plenty 

(twelve and twelve is four-and-twenty) 

thus, what was thine 

is now forever mine"