Alan Menken – Hellfire Lyrics | Genius Lyrics
Cover art for Hellfire by Alan Menken
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Hellfire Lyrics

[FROLLO]
Protect me, Maria
Don't let this siren cast her spell
Don't let her fire sear my flesh and bone!
Destroy Esmeralda
And let her taste the fires of hell
Or else let her be mine and mine alone


[FROLLO, PRIESTS & CHOIR, Both]
Hellfire
Dark fire
Now gypsy, it's your turn (Ah)
Choose me or
Your pyre
Be mine or you will burn!
(Ah)

Kyrie Eleison
God have mercy on her...
Kyrie Eleison
God have mercy on me...
Kyrie Eleison
But she will be mine
Or she
Will
Burn!

(Ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-aaaaaaah!
)

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Frollo and the congregation gather for prayer (maybe an evening mass?). Frollo reflects on his lust for Esmeralda, blaming it wholly on her and resolving to either possess her or kill her. The congregation sings lines in Latin that create a juxtaposition with Frollo’s selfish narrative, singing a prayer about personal sin cobbled together from several different Christian prayers.

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