Vienna (narration) Lyrics

The composer then looked at the child

Who smiled but did not speak

And then the child faded into the dark of the past
Where the darkness is always deep
And Beethoven turned back to Fate
Who had always been close by

And told her what he wanted changed
So his fate could be defied

"I did not need a teacher

Who taught with the back of his hand
While the music I was dreaming

He could never understand"

"These moments of your life I'll change" Fate says
"But there is a warning I must give
That to change one moment of a life
Can change how that life is lived

Like the gears inside a clock

Every moment turns another

Remove from a wall a single block

And sometimes that entire wall will shudder
The pain you felt through childhood

Would now seem to have no worth

But it was the salve you sought to ease that pain
That gave your Sixth Symphony birth

So, before I grant this wish

And this tale you later tell

Know that these wounds will disappear
But so will your Sixth Symphony, as well

So now that you know all that will be changed
Including things far out of view

When your decision has been made

Tell me what it is you would have me do?"
Fate did not have long to wait

The answer was clear upon his face

His childhood would retain its tears

And his sixth symphony would retain its place

Fate then said they should move on

For their time was growing short

And then asked where he had been happiest?
And she watched as he followed that thought

For a moment there was a glitter
Somewhere beyond his stare

In a time when days were not bitter
And she found Vienna there

Which brings us all, my friends

To the next chapter in our story

As they watched Beethoven as a young man
Arriving in Vienna with all its glory