ACT TWO

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SCENE 1 - THE BALLROOM

(George comes out of a lift looking around in confusion. The door to a ballroom opens and inside we see the Elitists having a party.)

~~NOTHING REALLY MATTERS~~

ELITISTS
We're the cream, we're the crust
We're for pleasure, we're for lust
All the fun has just begun
We are the children of the sun

Cutting teeth, cutting through
Life for me is death for you
Shut your eyes, shut your ears
We are the children of the years
And to us nothing really matters-matters in this world
It's power-power-that's the thing
The taste of pure sweet decadence
And the pleasure-pleasure-pleasure that it brings
A sweet young thing to hold
So we will not be cold
And winter snow will never come
And we will not grow old
That's what we have been told
It's always been like this
Machine built edifice
The power of Metropolis!

(The Elitists continue dancing elegantly, vigorously, and with supreme vanity.
Three Elitists realize that George isn't one of them. He is attacked and beaten up. Jeremiah comes over.)

JEREMIAH
What's your name?

GEORGE
11811

JEREMIAH
Get rid of him now.

(Two guards move forwards towards George. Steven enters, sees what is going one and rushes over.)

STEVEN
Wait! This was just a joke. It was a game!

JEREMIAH
What is this, Steven?

STEVEN
A little bit of fun, Jeremiah.

JEREMIAH
It's not very funny.

STEVEN
I've seen a nightmare
A vision of hell
I've been a worker
I've a story to tell
Of so many deaths
Of massive machines

JEREMIAH
Why bother them with something that they've never seen?

JEREMIAH and ELITISTS
This is life, lived like a story
This is life at its best and its glory
Keeper of dreams and singer of songs
This is the land we love
And we'll keep it strong

STEVEN
How can you hide from the obvious truth
So many lies we teach to our youth

JEREMIAH
We keep the torch of the faithful and true
We keep this dream of Metropolis feel ever new

JEREMIAH and ELITISTS
This is life, lived like a story
This is life at its best and its glory
Keeper of dreams and singer of songs
This is the land we love
And we'll keep it strong

(Freeman arrives, the Elitists bow to him.)

FREEMAN
My dear friends I welcome you
Here's someone special, someone new
The new form, the new face
Most perfect of the human race.

(Futura enters, Warner slips into the side of the room to watch what is happening.)

WARNER
Futura, oh my Futura. Why did I allow him to take you away from me?

JEREMIAH
You have no power to change anything.

FREEMAN
Look at this girl who stands before you
Look at her confidence
Look at her perfect skin
See how upright her perfect figure
People, you need to see this once
And you will always remember this sight
Perfection's touched your lives tonight
I can't believe, she's such a beauty
Why am I feeling like this? What is gong on?
People, you need to learn from this
How quickly beauty comes
And how slowly it goes
Dance!

(Coldly, with knowing calculation, Futura dances seductively for the party.)

FUTURA
Futuuuuuuuura!
Futuuuuuuuura!

(Steven and George return.)

STEVEN
Maria!

FREEMAN
Ha, ha! Marvellous! Isn't my discovery wonderful? I must admit, you've got very good taste, my boy and congratulations on your costume. It is most original! Think! Tonight every man in metropolis will be dreaming about her!

WARNER
Futura!

FREEMAN
Ha! Ha! Ha! And she's all mine. In you go, my dear. Exquisite! Perfection! Remember this sight, my friends. Please continue with the party. My dear boy, take care of Lulu. My good friends, I bid you goodnight.

(Freeman and Futura leave in a lift.)

JEREMIAH
Where do you think she's gone
Your precious Maria?
Gone back to where she belongs
Your darling Maria

ELITISTS
Fool to believe in such a pretty defeatist

JEREMIAH
Your workers' Madonna's become an elitist

LULU
You won't see her face again, your pretty Maria.

LULU and JEREMIAH
She wants new life and new fame
Can't blame your Maria

ELITISTS
Give up these high ideals
You'll only get hurt now

LULU and JEREMIAH
The only reality here is workers must work now.

ELITISTS
Fool to make fun of us
Revenge is the sweetest

LULU and JEREMIAH
Your workers' Madonna's become an elitist.

ELITISTS
She's become an elitist. (repeat to fade)

Everyone leaves and Steven is left to reflect on his misfortune.)

STEVEN
If that was love
Something so inspiring
I've got too much to lose
And too little to win
But I know that in my heart
I've made a decision
Nothing left to say
Go the hardest way
If that was love

Maybe a hunch
Maybe it's a gamble
Am I facing the facts?
Did I look at the truth?
It's hard to live in a world
Where your close ones betray you
But I'll carry on
I've seen her be so strong
This is my time

If it's only love
Shouldn't be enough to break my heart
If it's only love
It's only love

(Steven breaks down. George is not very impressed by his behaviour.)

GEORGE
So it was just Maria. You don't care about us!

STEVEN
How can I help you if she's the one you listen to?

GEORGE
We listen to anyone who brings us hope. I'm going back!

STEVEN
You can't leave on your own, it's not safe!

GEORGE
I hate your world and I hate your people. Why did I trust you? They could have killed me!

SSTEVEN
I saved you...

GEORGE
Some hero! I'm going back to my people. You have no idea what's going on down there, you've only worked one shift. My girl was killed in one of your father's machines. And When people die, even their bodies are taken away from us!

GEORGE
There is little time for love there
Night and day it's always the same
I lost all I have to love there
There's no time to dwell on the pain

STEVEN
I have lost my only love here
Right or wrong, to her I'll be true
If I say goodbye to love here
Who will be my friend here, but you?

GEORGE
So leave here and help us
She's gone now she's worthless

STEVEN
How can I leave her, oh my friend?

GEORGE
Your love is a lie

STEVEN
I cannot stop my love for her

GEORGE
Each day workers die

STEVEN (+GEORGE)
My friend what can I do
(Your anger's strong)
Knowing what my father did
(We need you to belong
This city's not free)

STEVEN
Won't satisfy me

GEORGE
Surely now you have your answer?

STEVEN
How can you tell me to do this?
I have lost my only love here

GEORGE
Don't sell our lives for a kiss!

STEVEN
In my youth my father told me
Told me soon this city was mine
Never told of the machine rooms

GEORGE
Workers dropping dead on the line.
So leave her

STEVEN (+GEORGE):
Why did she reject me,
(and help us)
ignore me?
(She's gone now she's worthless)
How can I leave her
(Pressure's mounting down below)
Oh my friend?
(Help us we have got to know)
I cannot stop my love for her
(We need you to help us here)
Knowing what my father did

GEORGE
Each day workers die

STEVEN (+GEORGE):
My friend what can I do
(Your anger's strong)
Knowing what my father did
(We need you to belong)

STEVEN and GEORGE
The city's not free

STEVEN
Please listen to me

GEORGE
We've got to break free

GEORGE and STEVEN
Please listen to me!

FFREEMAN
Futura! Listen to me. Take the place of Maria. Spread confusion in the workers. Demoralize them. Use the children. I will monitor you and watch you. Remember, use the children . . . The pretty, pretty pretty pretty children . .

(The machine room. Lake has Maria's "book" and looks to see if the coast is clear.)

LAKE
Shh!

CHILDREN
Tree, sun, flow-er, bird.

MARTA
What does a bird really look like, Beso?

  BESO
I don't know. We should ask Maria.

LAKE
But she isn't here.

JOSE
Perhaps something's happened to her!

MARTA (calls)
Maria!

CRISSCROSS
Sssh! Not so loud.

ABEL
Grot will hear.

LAKE
It's alright, I saw him round the corner he was snoring!

(The children fall about laughing. Futura enters. She is dressed as Maria.)

MARTA
Maria!

JOSE
Where have you been?

CRISSCROSS
It's time for the lessons.

MARTA
I can count up to a hundred.

FUTURA
Child-ren.

ABEL
Yes.

JOSE
What's the matter?

FUTURA
What-Are-You-Doing?

TAN
We've come for the lesson. We always have our lesson at this time. Don't you remember?

(Beso shows her the book. Futura grabs it.)

FUTURA
Lesson. Yes.

CRISSCROSS
Why didn't you come to our lesson yesterday?

FUTURA
I wasn't . . . Here . . . Yesterday.

JOSE
She must have been ill.

FUTURA
Show me your lessons.

TAN
I think she still is.

FUTURA
Show me your lessons! Pretty children. I love my pretty pretty pretty children.

CHILDREN
Life on the planet began one day
Man came and he built his family tree
He got on very well
The world was a great and warm and happy
Place to be
To fight
Wasn't right
And everyone lived next door to the sea.
Food was abundant and so was coal and shoes
And the children all wore...

FUTURA
Hats

CHILDREN
We thought that's what you said

FUTURA
Pretty chilren

CHILDREN
The fox and the goose, the giant dromedary and the flying bat

FUTURA
Rattle tat, bit bat!

CHILDREN
Lived here

FUTURA
No fear!

CHILDREN
It was clear

FUTURA
Sincere

CHILDREN
Some people even thought the world was flat

FUTURA
Flit! Flat!

CHILDREN
Flit flat

FUTURA
Rattle tat.

CHILDREN
Bit bat.

Man is a greedy sort of creature

FUTURA
Creature!

CHILDREN
Who thought he could better mother nature

FUTURA
Nature!

CHILDREN
He made an unpleasant kind of world For us to--

CHILDREN (+FUTURA):
Grow (dum) up (dum) in (dum dim!)

CHILDREN
Between everything there's a relation

FUTURA
Sensation!

CHILDREN
And kids are the crown of all creation

FUTURA
Imagaination!

CHILDREN
But it's rotten, we've forgotten
What came after that!

FUTURA
Pretty children!
Do your lessons!
Pretty children!
Sing for Maria!

CHILDREN
Hills and the valleys were made of glass
And the seas were full of purple fish
And the rivers ran upstream

FUTURA
Unseen!

CHILDREN
You said the moon was something like a silver dish

FUTURA
Little silver dish.

CHILDREN
And a tune

FUTURA
Flim--floom

CHILDREN
On a spoon

FUTURA
Spin-spoon

CHILDREN
Will always help you make a wish

FUTURA
Pre-tty children, pre-tty children

CHILDREN
We've forgotten
We've forgotten
What came after that

(Futura claps sarcastically.)

FUTURA
Clever children. Do you want a surprise? Just look at these silly lessons. These silly silly silly lessons. Such a very meaningless thing to do. I've got something better than your lessons.

MARTA
What?

FUTURA
I will tell you, I will tell you, if you come with me.

(The children and Futura exit. Warner enters.)

WARNER
Old friends, old plans
With these eyes
With these hands too
Built this city
Built it strong
My usefulness did not last long
Lost my pride
Lost the knack
He took my work
Gave nothing back
Only you
Futura girl
Can bring some light
To this man's world

(Jeremiah enters and watches Warner below.)

JEREMIAH
What are you doing Warner? This is a controlled area.

WARNER
I was just looking for Futura.

JEREMIAH
Never go near Futura again. If you behave yourself you may receive some small credit, but if i see you down here again I'll eliminate you.

WARNER
I've no intention of coming here again.

JEREMIAH
Good, then see that you don't.

(Warner and Jeremiah exit. Workers come in from the darkness.)

WORKERS
When the morning sun is rising
Though in depths we see no light
Through the tunnels, through the darkness
Comes the radiance of our night
Gone the torment
Gone the anger
As the perfect morning breaks
Now our hearts are beating faster
When Maria wakes

WORKER 1:
We've been told she's only sleeping
She'll return at break of day
Love and hope will take us further
Purity will light the way

WORKER 1 and CHORUS
Who is stronger, who is weaker?
He who gives or he who takes?
Now we all can face the future
When Maria wakes

(Futura arrives above, Lake running in with her.)

LAKE
Maria's back!

FUTURA
I promised you I'd be back and here I am.
My mission was a great success
And here's the plan.
They want to give you all
A day of glorious sunshine
But you must allow the kids
To join the workline.
I bring you all a chance
To taste some freedom
Soon you will climb the steps
And see the kingdom
I've told the masters we can
Bring them more power
All they want is the children
To work for one hour

WORKERS
What's going on?
She's never talked this way before

FUTURA
Why not, children?

WORKERS
An angel of mercy goes up
A devil appears at the door

FUTURA
Children are strong!

WORKERS
There's always been a rule we'd keep their hands clean.

FUTURA
They're strong enough to work.

WORKERS
We'd never put the children on the machines!

FUTURA
Don't you know
They're getting bored anyway down here?
They need a little job to do
Life is dull and grey down here
They need a little job to do
What can they find to do down here?
Their hearts so brave and true
What can they find to play down here?
They need a little job to do
Just a decent little job to do.

LAKE
Give me a chance
I'm stronger than anyone here
You need a rest, your body's weak now
And can work for you down here

WORKERS
We always had a rule we kept them away

LAKE
Let me please, let me?

WORKERS (+LAKE):
How can they work for even one hour a day?
Don't let them push me away)

FUTURA
They're getting bored anyway down here
They need a little job to do
Life is so uninteresting
Till you have a little job to do
Give you a game to play down here
Something quite special and new
Life is so uninteresting
Now you have a little job to do
Just a decent little job to do

WORKERS
Maria!
FUTURA
I said to you I'd find a way to make us free

WORKERS
This is madness.
What's come over you, Maria?

FUTURA
Now you act like brainless fools, insulting me

WORKERS
She's crazy

FUTURA
I've told old Freeman
We can get him more power

WORKERS
Take the kids
They shouldn't listen to insanity

FUTURA
All he wants is the dumb brats
To slog a few hours!

WORKERS
What's going on?
We won't stand for this anymore

FUTURA
Children can work longer hours

WORKERS
An angel of mercy goes up
A devil appears at the door

LAKE
We're Workers like you, just give me a chance

LAKE (+WORKERS)
Kids won't slog here
You don't know what we can do
(Not here. This is madness)
'Till you give us a chance!
(This is lunacy, insanity)

FUTURA
They're getting bored anyway down here
They need a little job to do
Life's so grim and grey down here
They've got more guts than you!

WORKERS
Maria's insane!
They've made her insane!
She wants to control
Every mind, every soul
She must be a witch
She must be a witch
She needs to control
Every mind, every soul
Don't listen to her!
Don't listen to her!
This girl is a witch!
Is a witch!
Is a witch!
Is a witch!
Don't listen! Don't listen!
To this witch
To this witch!

(Futura runs off, the workers pursue her through the machine rooms. Jeremiah and Freeman are observing from above.)

FREEMAN
Magnificent! She works!

JEREMIAH
Futura's gone wrong. She's going too far, she's out of control!

FREEMAN
No, she's under my control Jeremiah. The workers must hate Maria, then the spirits will die within them.

JEREMIAH
She'll make them riot. They've stopped work. The pressure's falling.

FREEMAN
The pressure is only temporary I'll use the auxiliary. Never fear, Jeremiah. Come with me.

(They leave, the workers are still chasing the robot.)

WORKERS
Maria's insane! They've made her insane!
She wants to control every mind, every soul
She must be a witch
She must be a witch
She needs to control every mind, every soul
Don't listen to her, don't listen to her
This girl is a witch, this girl is a witch
Don't listen to her, don't listen to her!
Don't listen, don't listen
To this witch, to this witch

(Futura gleefully escapes the mob as they chase her up and around the machine room.
Jeremiah and Freeman return.)

FREEMAN
Excellent! Splendid! Jeremiah, your worries are unfounded. Everything is alright. We now have the key; Futura. Metropolis is thriving. You will see, my son will soon come round.

JEREMIAH
I have doubts, sir.

FREEMAN
Tell me.

JEREMIAH
You make it too hard on Steven.

FREEMAN
Yes?

JEREMIAH
His strengths are different from yours. It's this girl, sir. She's their Madonna, almost perfect. It's uncanny! Together they could destroy us all!

FREEMAN
But the girl is already dead. Warner has been instructed to kill her.

JEREMIAH
It's not that simple. The last thing we need is a martyr for their cause.

FREEMAN
No, Jeremiah. Once we have collected the blueprints from Warner, we can then create scores of Futuras. The workers will be obsolete.

JEREMIAH
Warner may prove reluctant to comply.

FREEMAN
Warner will see that he has got no choice. Don't worry Jeremiah.

JEREMIAH
No, sir.

(Maria wakes up.)

MARIA
Who are you?

WARNER
My name is Warner I'm an inventor.

MARIA
What am I doing here?

WARNER
I discovered the way to make a perfect woman. But I couldn't find the perfect face. Until I had yours to copy.

MARIA
There's a creature with my face?

WARNER
Yes. I called her Futura, but they stole her away from me. She's taken your place down below.

MARIA
Why?

WARNER
John Freeman wants to discredit you, his son is in love with you and that is something Freeman will never allow.

MARIA
Please let me go, I want to go back!

WARNER
It's too late now your friends will kill you. Futura is going to betray you.

MARIA
Please untie me.

WARNER
I have no power to change anything. No power To change anything.

MARIA
Haven't you finished with me?
Here Mr. Warner, you copy these tears
Bottle them up and sell them to my friends
Whose souls are so tortured by fear
That they've forgotten how to cry
Here, Mr. Warner,
You can copy these Mr. Warner
That should make you pleased Mr. Warner
hat should make you pleased

What have you left me inside?
Here Mr. Warner, you copy this heart.
Cut it from card and paint it with my blood
Pretend it was yours from the start
So you can know the pain I feel
Now Mr. Warner
You can take a bow Mr. Warner
You can do it now Mr. Warner
You can do it now

WARNER
You are more perfect
Than anything I can imagine
You are more perfect than anything
I could ever build
Believe me I'm touched by your innocence
I wish I could help you

MARIA
Just let me leave
And go back to the people I love

Haven't you finished with me?
Here Mr. Warner you copy these arms
Copy these ropes and copy these bruises
It's you who created these charms
So you could make the angels cry
See Mr. Warner
You're the one who's free Mr. Warner
You're the one who's free.

(Warner releases Maria and she flees. Freeman and Jeremiah enter.)

FREEMAN
I hope I'm not disturbing you so late? What's happening here? Another experiment?

WARNER
I was just going to bed.

JEREMIAH
Got her all parcelled up have you? Where is the body?

FREEMAN
Yes, where is the body Warner?

WARNER
I have released her.

FREEMAN
You've what!?

JEREMIAH
Shall we kill him?

FREEMAN
Now, just a moment, Jeremiah. You go too far you are too fanatical. Warner is an old and trusted friend. He is full of humanity. I would like to be humane too. Put a bullet through his head!

(Jeremiah shoots Warner.)

FREEMAN
Find maria! Stop her! Eliminate her too! If she sees my son, I lose everything. DESTROY HER!

VOICE #2
Control to all sections. The power is falling below the critical level. All sections return to the machines. We cannot guarantee your safety below 101.11. The pressure must be restored. Repeat, the pressure must be restored.

(The Workers run back on, led by Marco, and calling angrily for Maria---Futura has escapd them.)

MARCO
Why did Maria give us hope? To keep us down on our knees?

2011
Break the machines! Break them!

(With whatever they can find for weapons, the Workers attack the machines.)

GROT
What are you doing? Get back to work! You! Come Here!

MARCO
We've been tricked! You too Grot!

GROT
Don't touch the machines.

MARCO
The elitists are nothing without power. Break the machines!

GROT
If you destroy the machines you will destroy life!

1178
It's too late!

(Lake appears above, the robot has a knife to her throat.)

LAKE
Help! She's here!

FUTURA
All this chaos, isn't it fine?
Taste the destruction, it is divine
Who gives a damn? Burn in hell
I love the burning, I love the smell

WORKERS
She's the devil!

FUTURA (+WORKERS>
Let's watch the world go to the devil
(Maria's insane)
Don't give a damn
(don't listen to her)
If no one survives
(The Girl is a witch)
Let's watch the world go to the devil
(She's the devil!)
She'll/I'll laugh at Metropolis burning alive

(A Worker runs in panicking.)

WORKER
Fire! Fire! The machine room's on fire!

ANOTHER WORKER
Let's call the control room!

GROT
The control room is sealed. No one can go in there now!

FUTURA
Nothing can last, nothing can live
Everyone breaks, everything gives
Children must die, waited too long
Nothing is sacred, nothing is strong

WORKERS
Leave that child, Maria, or we'll kill you!

(Steve arrives by lift, George arrives on foot.)

STEVEN
Maria, let the child go, Maria, and give me the knife.

FUTURA
Pretty boy come and get me, pretty boy!

STEVEN
They'll kill you, Maria!

FUTURA
He is John Freeman's son. He is a traitor. Kill him!

(The workers take hold of Steven, George climbs up towards Futura.)

GEORGE
Give me the knife, Maria!

(Futura plunges the knife into George, laughing. He falls back dead.)

GROT
She's not Maria. She's the devil! Let's burn the devil before she destroys us all!

WORKERS (+FUTURA)
You know this girl is the devil (Children!)
She has to die if we're to survive (Children!)

WORKERS
Let's watch this girl go to the devil
Into the fire, burn her alive
She's the devil! She's the devil!
She's the devil! She's the devil!
Burn!

(The Workers lift Futura and plunge her still laughing, into the furnace, Stevan is helpless to stop them. The workers draw back in awe. Maria's image has disappeared and the metal shape of a robot appears. The workers are frozen in horror. Maria enters and sees the carnage.)

MARIA
I dreamed
That the earth turned to stone
And we walked alone
We were cold
Dust
We had all turned to dust
The machines gone to rust
We were old
Why this strange sad dream?
Why this ugly nightmare?
Is this how it ends
Does fear control the hour?
There was not one chance
They could fight the wrong here
Or at least pretend
Why kill every flower - just for power?
Looks like one of those nights
That has no beginning
One of those nights that has no end
You search for the truth
You dream of a lover
They take all your youth
They take all your friends
Rain
In my dream there was rain
And the tears of my brothers
In pain
There was hope
With the first ray of light
We would all be all right
In the dawn
How did we begin?
When we stood together?
Will we find again
What we've known forever?
We still have the power
We can right the wrong here
There is one more chance
No more time to fight - we need light!
No more time for the nights
That have no beginning
Gone are the nights that have no end
Calm is the force
That looks to the future
Strong is the cause
The love of my friends
Strong is the cause
Strong to the end

(Marco rushes in.)

MARCO
The fire is out of control, number six is shut down.

GROT
I've opened the floodgates.

27101
You'll drown us all!

GROT
We must try and save the machines.

2010
The pipes are bursting in the heat. The water level is rising.

STEVEN
We all must go up to the city I know a place where we could hide together.

GROT
We must save the machines.

WORKERsBR> To hell with them. To the lifts!

GROT
You can't use the lifts. The guards will shoot you on sight up there.

STEVEN
But we'll be dead if we stay here. Everyone try to get to level 10 and we'll join you there.

(Chaos as the lights flicker and everyone scrambles to get out.)

VOICE 1
Warning to all workers, warning to all workers. The air filters are no longer functioning, the oxygen supply has been exhaused. Warning to all workers. The atmosphere in the machine rooms can no longer support life.

(Dim lights---flickering glimpses of people running silently as in a silent movie---then figures in shadows indistinctly seen at first, slowly advancing.)

WORKERS
Day after day we worked on these machines
This is what we called life
All that we could call life
The final hours of Metropolis
Death has come to those below
As to those above
Pressure was all there was to think about
One oh one point one we must maintain
Or someone pays
Supplying the power for Metropolis
They work us night and day

FREEMAN
What has happened? Where is Futura?

JEREMIAH
Futura went out of control. She killed Steven.

FREEMAN
Killed Steven? Where is Futura?

JEREMIAH
The workers burned her in the furnace. Now that Steven is dead I will always be loyal. I will serve you all my life.

FFREEMAN
Do you know what it took
To build a city
One like this
Metropolis?
Starting with nothing
But the rubble and
End up with this
Metropolis?
Hell
A life born from hell
A world built from strength
And wisdom
And skill
But only held together
By my sheer will
Yes, I built this city
Out of the ashes
With nothing but dreams
With nothing else but dreams
We are the keeper of the magic dreams
The singer of the glorious songs
This is the land we love above all else
Whatever else, we'll keep it strong
Duty, without me this city
Would go off the rails
Sink into the ground
Disintegrate--run down
Below
They work down below
And if some must suffer so others can soar
That's how a city grows
No better man than I has ever thought
Has ever tried to reach so high
This is the perfect sum of all the parts
It is the shape of things to come
My pride won't let me go on
I built it and I can destroy it at will
My son and city have gone
Anger, this rage deep inside me
Oh, why has my one son
Been taken from me?
How could I let this be?

I'm going mad
I'm giving credence to
Emotions
They're just frivolous
It had to come to this
The only thing that had been sure
Is we endure
And now it's gone
I can't go on

(Freeman breaks down. He pushes buttons on his desk and the control room collapses on him and Jeremiah. Metropolis explodes and is destroyed.
Steven, Maria, the children and the survivors appear from below one by one from a manhole in the center of the stage.
It is snowing and the children catch it in their hands in wonder.)

STEVEN
This was the vision
This was the city
Shimmering tower
Arrogant power
City of sunlight
Banished to darkness
Home of the living
Grave of the dying
Alone now
Be strong now

MARIA
Hold back the night
The darkness fades towards the dawn
We will all fly high
someday

Though days were dark
And nothing came to light the way

MARIA (+STEVEN>
We will all fly high
(We will fly far)

STEVEN
Far away!

We were working for the devil
The city lights were fuelled in hell

MARIA
The city lights turn now to darkness

STEVEN and MARIA
But we will survive brightly alive

CHILDREN
Oh my what a beautiful city
Built by our their fathers
A gift to their sons

CHILDREN (+STEVEN)
There's hope now
(sunlight)
That we'll make it better
(Brightly shining sun)

CHILDREN (+MARIA)
The best that a man can become
(Faraway so--)

STEVEN (MARIA) {CHILDREN}
If we could just see the sun
(Hold back the night )
{We are the children of metropolis}
If we could just see the light
(Look towards the light)
{We are the children}

WORKERS join
We will all fly high...

(first rays of sunlight illuminate the slowly falling snow.)

ALL SURVIVORS
Though days were dark
And nothing came to light the way
We will all fly high
Today