The Dreams of Candlelight

COULD THIS NIGHT IT LAST FOREVER

EVERY MOMENT HELD TOGETHER

AS IF IN A PERFECT TRANCE

AND SUCH A THING COULD BE

NO ONE ELSE WOULD UNDERSTAND IT

WE WOULD KNOW THE GODS HAD PLANNED IT

AND FOR SUCH A NIGHT AS THIS

THAT THEY GAVE MEMORY

AND WE WOULD LIVE INSIDE THIS NIGHT

WITHIN THE DREAMS OF CANDLELIGHT

IF YOU WOULD BRING THIS WISH TO LIFE

AND SPEND THIS NIGHT WITH ME

COULD THIS MOMENT LAST FOREVER

AND THIS DREAM OUR ONE ENDEAVOR

IF THE STARS WOULD JUST ENCHANT

AND TIME WOULD THEN AGREE

EVERY MOMENT OF TOMORROW

FROM THIS EVENING WE WOULD BORROW

IF THIS WISH THE STARS WOULD GRANT

AND GENTLY OVERSEE

AND WE WOULD LIVE INSIDE THIS NIGHT

WITHIN THE DREAMS OF CANDLELIGHT

IF YOU WOULD BRING THIS WISH TO LIFE

AND SPEND THIS NIGHT WITH ME

[Fate takes them to Beethoven's parlor in 1801. There they see the composer slumped over the piano. He is going deaf and he realizes that it is irreversible. As far as he is concerned, his life is over.]