The Dreams of Candlelight

(THERESA) 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 me would live inside this night Within the dreams on candlelight If you would bring this wish to life And spend this night with me (Beethoven tells Fate that this was the happiest moment of his life. When she asks why did it have to end he replies, "Because it had to.") (Fate again inquires, "Why?") ("No woman wants to spend her life with a deaf musician, let alone a lady of such high station and beauty.") (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.)