Villain Song lyrics

MARK
Hello Damien
You are one hard man to find

DAMIEN
Who are you?

MARK
You don't recognize me?

Dear boy, it's been a while
Though I don't know how much time has passed
I'll be honest, things get scrambled here
Perspective seen through a shot glass
You're quite lucky I know how to move here
You're quite lucky I learn fast
Otherwise, you would have been stuck in your sister's winter wonderland!

So did you miss me?
So did you miss my pretty little face?
I admit I look quite different
In a familiar sort of way
Did you miss me?
I know we so abruptly parted ways
But we're here, with a brand new opportunity
And I've decided, you get to play the game!
DAMIEN
I don't even know who you are

ACTOR
Of course
Celine would have made sure to lock your memories away so you don't freak out
Worry not! I'll jog your memory
You're the younger of a pair of twins, and you hate your family life
Because your sister's always been stubborn and you're not, so they thought you were right
To take the role of family heir and poster child for family creed
You wanted nothing of the parties and the roles they said you need

You are meek, but a natural helper
Soft spoken but a natural leader
You ran for office for the goal of helping others with your reach and power
Your uni classmate was your district attorney
Your best friend who you invited to my party
On a fateful October night, when I asked you all to join me

DAMIEN
Mark!

MARK
So did you miss me?

COMPANY
Ooh!
MARK
Did you miss my pretty little face?
I admit I look quite different

MARK, DAMIEN
In a familiar sort of way

MARK
Did you miss me?
My death had us abruptly parting ways
But we're here, with a brand new opportunity
And I've decided, you get to play the game!


DAMIEN
You died
I saw your body
I know it disappeared
I know we searched every nook and cranny
Celine seeked
She looked for answers
And I helped
But something happened after

MARK
Well isn't this just interesting
The seer's accepted his gift
DAMIEN
You knew?

MARK
Celine and I did

We saw you stare at nothing
We saw your mind would always drift

You could never control it
You could never remember the fugues very clearly, so we thought it best to keep you ignorant til we dealt with it

DAMIEN
But how did you even -

ACTOR
Oh, Damien
Why do you think your sister and I can do what we do?

That house had things living in it
Things that are not, once were, or perhaps never were like us
They whispered and we stopped to hear it
They said they'd help us stop your fugues without a fuss
You screamed in sleep and you had fevers
And not a single person there would hear our pleas
And so we listened and dug deeper
We put your wayward sight to rest eventually

DAMIEN
But I do remember
Just bits, but I do remember
And I know now that it's true

MARK
Perhaps now you'll manage better
And if that's so then good for you

DAMIEN
Something else happened in that house
I helped Celine look for her answers
And then quiet as a mouse
Something reached out with hunger

Oh
Oh I remember now
You're wearing my body

MARK
Brava
Brava
Bravissima

I did
I stole your body
Do you remember?

DAMIEN
Yeah
And I can see that's not the only thing you've done

MARK
I suppose there's no skirting around the issue
Yes, I planned this all
Granted, most of it went awry
But in the end, I got what I came for
I planned the party and I planned the guests
Detective, Mayor, Attorney
A line of witnesses
For the murder of dear old me

See, death doesn't exist in a place where souls can't move on
The manor, after all, is a cage
So the departed stay holding on
And they can move back in their bodies
Or they can just try to stay here
And I know that because I've tried, again, and again
To no end, I fear

37 stabbings
Poison
Beating
Strangling
Drowning

DAMIEN
You did that to yourself?

MARK
Until William put me out of my misery and shot me

Well, that's not the whole story
Cause you see, I rigged a gun
I told him to meet me after the party
So we can have some fun
I told him we can play Russian Roulette
And if both of us live
Then fate wants us both to see just one more day
And we'll forget and forgive

But all it ever takes is a bullet
And while he lived through his round
Poor old me just wasn't so lucky
I was dead before I hit the ground
The detective was there to uncover the crime
The mayor and attorney to witness the lies
But a wrench got thrown in the plan when Celine arrived

I had to find a way to stop her from scrying out the truth
I struck a deal with one of the manor's denizens I met in my youth
And then Celine was gone, snatched up, unable to break more hearts
And with you being as powerful as her, well, I thought I'd get a fresh start

DAMIEN
But why?

MARK
Because you all owe me for everything I've done for you
You wouldn't be mayor without my endorsement
I loved you all and you played me for a fool
You wouldn't be alive if not for my friendship

Dear William wouldn't have come back alive if I hadn't paid for his hospital bills
Your sister cheated and left me and I still left her everything in my will

I tried so hard to care for all of you
And what did you do to me?
It's not fair, is it?
That all of you got to live happily?
And I couldn't even die right
No matter how hard I tried
So I thought -
If I don't matter to you
Why don't I cast you all aside?

William would be my murderer
And I'll take your body and leave
If Celine came back to meddle
She can lose hers too and grieve

I even moved my corpse and let Will see it
Just mess with his mind
And if only you'd all just played your part then everything would have been fine!

Abe could have caught Will and he'd be in jail
And you and your friend would testify
Celine would get my fortune and live another day
And that would be the end of the line

But it doesn't matter now
Because it still worked out
We're all here and I've found you
We can make a brand new story
I've even found an audience
And we can all start anew

DAMIEN
Mark
You know you're smarter than this
You have to know
You have to see that this is madness

ACTOR
You fancy me mad?
Hah! Madmen know nothing
Certainly not how cold and cruel you all can be

So I'll rewrite my story
I'll rewrite the pain and the disgrace
I'll be the hero
And you'll be villain
We'll already know our parts that way

I'll write my story
You already know just what to do
I know you better than yourself, it's true
And even now, your guilt is eating you!

DISTRICT ATTORNEY, COMPANY
Damien! Damien!
Isn't this the villain's song
Damien! Damien!
Doesn't the music sound wrong?
Damien! Damien!
Have we been right all along?
Despite anything and everything that's happened before?

DAMIEN! DAMIEN!
Isn't this the villain's song?
DAMIEN! DAMIEN!
Doesn't the music sound wrong?
DAMIEN! DAMIEN!
Isn't this the villain's song, are you singing the right song, are you singing your own song?

DAMIEN
Why don't I just sing along?