TODD - Act 1 "VIII. Lovett's Confession"

Lovett: This exciting moment, this sweet moment! The childhood dream has come true: that we two are alone in this world – only you and me, and the darkness.

I want to cry and sing: to be with you – in the darkness with you – and if death will suddenly come, let it be called Love.

I have been waiting for you for so many years. I am not afraid of anything.

Let the love be a murderer – the heart is not afraid, if it has been waiting for its love. Anyway, you cannot hide from what is meant to happen. What is meant to happen will happen, since it has to happen anyway. The fate.

I am waiting for this gentle stab. I am not afraid, I am not afraid: I will receive a generous gift – a thread of bloody beads on the neck.

A trail of the cold blade – the reflection of the pink dawn, the coral-red bracelet – give me in farewell!

I have been waiting for you for so many years, that nothing hurts anymore. Let the love be a murderer – the heart is not afraid, if it has been waiting for its love. Anyway, you cannot hide from what is meant to happen. What is meant to happen will happen, since it has to happen anyway. The fate.

The narrator’s voice: So, the lovers become accomplices. How to live if the soul is burning with the fire of revenge? Sweeney goes to a church, but the Priest pours oil on the flames: "The Butcher? One pathetic, fat butcher? It is funny! All are guilty: the rich, the poor, the well-fed and the hungry! All those, who out of their cowardice or self-interest, let the love, faith and justice be trampled down in stinking dirt." The priest not only absolves Sweeney of his sins, but also blesses him for new murders. The poison has penetrated into his soul so deeply.

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TODD - Акт 1 "VIII. Признание Ловетт" - Король и Шут