[Professor 1]
Frankenstein, we find your ideas shocking, dangerous
And an affront to all that is moral and decent
[Professor 2]
It’s insanity! Only a fool or a heretic would dare trifle
With life and death as you propose
[Professor 3]
Your obsession with discredited charlatans
And their dubious science is pure folly
[Professor 4]
The university will not stand for these outlandish
And unauthorized experiments of yours
[Professor 5]
It is complete madness!
[All]
It is madness, folly, insanity
[Professor 1]
The dead have nothing to say to you
[Condemned man]
I curse the day that I was born
Into a world so black with hate
I'll glady leave this life of scorn
And seek my peace before the light of heaven's gate
I have my sins like any man
But none more dark than yours
If it is I you choose to damn
Innocent blood will stain your hands forever more
[Executioner]
For crimes against the people
[Mob]
Your kind has no place but the grave
[Executioner]
The magistrate of ingolstadt hereby sentences you
[Mob]
Not even a soul that can be saved
[Executioner]
To be hanged by the neck until dead
[Mob]
Soon you will know eternal pain
[Executioner]
This sixteenth day of September, seventeen, hundred and
[Mob]
Your kind has no place but the grave
[Condemned man]
What's wrong? What's right?
[Mob]
Not even a soul that can be saved
[Condemned man]
Does man decide?
[Mob]
Soon you will know eternal pan
[Condemned man]
Who dares to act as God?
[Mob]
A man would dare to act as God!
[Victor]
Another soul
Another light
Another flame extinguished
One moment here, and then it's gone
A heart is beating, then is done
The difference barely is distinguished
[The ancient riddle]
What then is life?
What is it's fleeting essence?
The greatest minds have sought the key
That could unlock this mystery
And I alone possess it
What I have found was thought impossible
And only spoken of in fear
If I show them the impossible
Create a life
Then all must hear!
[Mob]
Let God's will be done
[Victor]
The gauntlet waits
It calls to me
[Condemned man]
What's wrong? What's right?
[Victor]
Crying destiny's demands
[Mob]
Make him pay!
[Condemned man]
Does man decide?
[Victor]
The very fate of all mankind
[Mob]
Finish what's begun!
[Victor]
Rests in this mind
[Condemned man]
Who dares to act as God?
[Victor]
And in these hands
[Mob]
Upon this judgement day
[Condemned man]
Oh my creator
Claim me now
Grant to me this nightmare's end
And if no man shall mourn for me
I'll trust in you
A-men
[Executioner]
Who will tend to the remains?
I say
Who claims this body?!
[Victor]
I do