Track 16: The Proposition

[Victor]:
I created you with a noble purpose
To free mankind from the fear of death!
If I had known it would lead to such bloodshed
I would never have given you breath

[Creature]:
Has it not pierced your brilliant mind
Our actions cannot be undone?
I will reign fear upon your kind
Unless you now complete what you've begun

Listen carefully, Victor Frankenstein
I have a proposition to present to you!
You have one chance to redeem your transgressions
You have one last experiment to do

Create a woman to share the strife
Make her as vile as my darkest pain
Make me the joy of a kindred wife
In return, you shall never see me again

[Victor]:
Never! Impossible! Preposterous!
Your scheme is outrageous, absurd!
One more just as monstrous
I'll not inflict such horror on this world!

[Creature]:
What's wrong, what's right?!
Do you decide?
I'm more than blood and bone!

I need a mate
One made as I!
I won't exist alone

[Victor]:
Who are you to make demands?
Who's now twice a criminal?
My brother's blood, upon your hands
Asking me to serve your will

A second beast to bring new terror
Upon the young and innocent
I'll not willingly repeat my error!
You will not get my consent!

[Creature]:
Victor you complete this task
And end your family's mourning
It's the last I'll ever ask
The boy was just a warning

Create another wretch as I, a love I cannot be denied
A soul content to live beside me
I'll take my bride and run away, someplace safe where we can stay
Far from man and his insanity

[Victor]:
I think it wrong, I think it sick!
A corruption of biology

[Creature]:
But here's your chance to make it right
And offer an apology

[Victor]:
Can I undo the great mistake? Erase the sorrow from my wake?
Never again to face this demon
And might I still attain the dream, with now a woman as the means
Bestow life upon my mission

[Chorus]:
Bestowing life

[All]:
Life everlasting, reanimation
A flawless new design
The finest woman in all creation
And she will be

[Creature]:
Mine...

[Victor]:
But softer now, a female frame
And agile hands required
And one who is lost, yet may be reclaimed
Reborn of heaven's fire

[Creature]:
This is your chance, you will atone
And never see me again
Remaster your fate! And face the unknown
And bring this nightmare to an end

[Victor]:
This is my chance, I will atone (Here's your last chance, you will atone)
And finally know peace

[Creature]:
As will I

[Victor & The Creature]:
One more leap into the unknown
And purge the name of Frankenstein!

[Justine]:
I am innocent! INNOCENT!