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TOM enters, still disconsolate at the thought that he denied knowing his mother. He looks around and approaches the throne.
TOM
I woke and looked at every sunrise
That did not light her face
While every night the shadows
Spilled across an empty space
Then at last I saw light
In my mother`s eyes
And I cast a shadow
With one foolish lie
My heart has flown inside a dream now
But it has turned to stone
How could I turn away from
All the love I`ve known?
In these halls of wonder
Stands a lonely throne
And a heart cries for me
In a place called home
There is a prince inside my smile
But paupers` blood runs through my heart
When will the boy that I should be
Break out from these chains and set me free?
(The lights dim on TOM and a spotlight comes up on EDWARD, sitting on the floor of the dungeon.)
EDWARD
The tender mercy of a stranger
Lives in my prayers today
When she breathed so much kindness
Why did God turn away?
In this hell around me
Pain becomes my throne
But I hear duty call me
From a place called home
There is a prince lost in my eyes
A pauper grieves inside my heart
When will the boy that I should be
Break out from these chains and set me free?
(Another spotlight comes up on TOM.)
EDWARD & TOM
I live inside a haunting nightmare
Because the childish dreams
A prince shared with a pauper
Were not what they seemed
Now the prince and pauper
Both share a threadbare throne
And I pray that somewhere
There`s a dream called home
EDWARD (overlapping with TOM)
There is a prince lost in my eyes
A pauper grieves inside my heart
When will the boy that I should be
Break out from these chains and set me free?
TOM (overlapping with EDWARD)
There is a prince inside my smile
But paupers` blood runs through my heart
When will the boy that I should be
Break out from these chains and set me free?
© 2008 Robert Thomson
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