Tale as old as time
True as it can be
Watch the petals fall
Desperate as you crawl
On your knees to me
It's your final page
Fairytale complete
You see in this world we're merely players
But the truth is I'm your beauty, you're the beast
Ever just the same
Ever a surprise
I've seen this before
Falling at my door
Desperate for your prize
You thought we're a match
Sweetheart, I am far smarter than that
There is no one living that can challenge me
You’re unworthy and that, love, is a fact
(Ooh)
What a genius plan, truly did you think this through?
Trap the smartest girl in all the land?
Let you all believe I would go quietly
While I sat and planned my hand
I have not spent my life reading books, my hours studying
To be some desperate prince's lonely wife
Wanna lock me away?
Well, by all means, have your fun with that
But I will be the author of my life
So to hell with your flower
You're all idiots for thinking
That you'd really make it out of this alive (make it out alive)
(Tale as old as time)
You are nothing but a monster to me (tune as old as song)
Less than nothing you're not worth my pity (bittersweet and strange)
Not even one of you (finding you can change)
Is a rival to what I can do (certain as the Sun)
Underestimated all this time (rising in the east)
Don't you get it this is my design (tale as old as time)
I've made all my moves (song as old as rhyme)
Seconds from the truth
Beauty and the-
(Beauty and the-)
Beauty and the-
Beast
(Beauty and the Beast)