Gustave  it's alright  it's me
Gustave  please take him away
I'm so sorry
Please forgive him  he meant no harm
How could you think I wouldn't guess 
What do you mean 
How could you think I wouldn't know 
Oh  no
Do you have something to confess 
Please don't make me
I want the truth right now  if so
Once upon another time
You went off and left me alone
But that's not all you did
You left me with a son
Ever since that other time
I wished  how I wished you'd have known
I kept the secret hid  the secret my marriage forbid
What else could I have done 
Just live
Our son
Just live
My son
Just give what I could give
And take what little I deserve
My own flesh and blood
And even he recoils in horror from me
Just like his mother
Forgive me  I beg you  if you can
I've brought you nothing but woe
Tomorrow night  I'll sing with all my might
Sing for you again  then we'll go
From out of ugliness  such light
From out of darkness  such a flame
In him  my wrongness is made right
And yet he loathes me just the same
So let him shun me in disgust
Let him flee this cursed face
If I must hide from him  I must
Yet shall he be my saving grace
Oh  Christine  my Christine
If it's true  I've no reason to live
Then  Christine  then our boy
Shall have all I can give
Ah  Christine
All I create on this earth
All that I'll never be worth
All shall be his
Ten long years and he casts us aside
Ten whole years  this is how we're repaid
Ten dark years of toil and tears
And now what we've worked for will go to that child
All our hopes were at last in our grasp
All the dreams and the plans that we laid
Everything is vanishing
And we get discarded  rejected  reviled
All of the bonds in between is now torn
All of the love that we gave him was worn
All would be ours
If that bastard had never been born