The Riddle

See the Moon slink down in the sky, darling
Let your fantasies fly, darling
Life is cold, and the game is old

[Marguerite]
Just see how virtue repays you -
You turn, and someone betrays you
Betray him first, and the game's reversed!

[Chauvelin & marguerite]
For we all are caught in the middle
Of one long, treacherous riddle
Can I trust you? Should you trust me, too?

[Chauvelin]
We shamble on through this hell

[Marguerite]
Taking on more secrets to sell

[Chauvelin & marguerite]
Till there comes a day
When we sell our souls away!

[Percy]
Through the mist, your lover is beckoning
Comes that moment of reckoning
Faces change, even smiles grow strange

[All]
And we all have so many faces
The real self often erases
Enticing lies flicker through our eyes!

Feel the terror draw ever nearer
The more you stare in the mirror
But hold your own, face the wind alone

[Chauvelin]
Reel on, love! Toughen your scars!
Year by year, we're falling like stars

[All]
Till there comes a day
When we sell our souls away!

[Percy]
Can I run to you?
Are you true to me?

[Chauvelin]
I'll do unto you
As you do to me!

[Marguerite]
And we slowly learn
Someone has to burn -

[All]
Better you than me!

[Percy]
Oh, ev'ry Judas once loved a Jesus!

[Marguerite]
But fin'lly, treason will seize us!

[Chauvelin]
And only fools follow golden rules!

[All]
We all are caught in the middle
Of one long treacherous riddle
Of who trusts who
Maybe I'll trust you
But can you trust me?
Wait and see!