Death Note The Musical Album Lyrics

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Overture

(Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell)

(A digital clock set to 40 seconds is ticking down loudly. As it ticks, the ensemble chants.)

[ENSEMBLE]
Kira [x6]

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Where is the Justice

(Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell)

[Light]
Where is the justice
When the guilty all go free?
Why don't we lock them up
And throw away the key?

[Light's Teacher]
I see a young man's anger
Burning in your eyes;

[Light]
What you see is my impatience
With your noble compromise;

[Light]
Show me what's right about the wrongs that we allow
Real people need to feel protected here and now;
This whole damn system's broken way beyond repair
It's just law
Not law and order;
Not much good and seldom fair;

[Light's Classmate #1]
Laws were made for everyone
We're treated all the same;

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[Light]
Till a lawyer's tricks can fix the blame;
What about the victims
Waiting for some justice?
How can we turn away
And say that's just the way things are?
What about the families
Hiding in their houses
All of them afraid to walk the street at night
With all their doors locked tight
Tell me where is the justice
If there's any justice

[Light's Teacher]
Your simple arguments have all been made before (Ensemble Oh-oh's in the background)
The world's not black and white
The choice not either, or

[Light]
Perhaps it's time we drain the color from within
Till we're back to seeing black and white
And wrong and right again

[Light's Teacher]
Overwrought pronouncements won't improve the paradigm


[Light]
Till lawyers cutting deals becomes a crime;

[Light and Ensemble]
Let the corporations make the regulations
And all go unaccountable when everything goes wrong;
Let the rich and famous get away with murder;
Every time a high-priced mouth piece starts to talk
His client gets to walk;
Tell me where is the justice?
If there's any justice;

[Light]
Where is the justice

[Students]
Tell me where?

[Light]
For all the victims?

[Students]
Tell me where?

[Light]
Where is the justice?
What good is law that can't punish those who break it?


[Light's Classmate #2]
Politicians make their speeches all day long;
While judges pushing pencils mostly get it wrong;

[Ensemble]
Mostly get it wrong!


[Light's Classmate #3]
Instead of loopholes for the laws to fall between;
Let some good old fashioned payback
Grease the wheels of the machine;

[Ensemble]
Grease the wheels of the machine

[Light]
Isn't everybody sick to death of all this stuff
Can't we all stand up and say enough?

[Ensemble]
Time and stand up! We've had enough!
Justice
Justice
Justice
Now's the time for justice

[Light]
Listen to the fam'lies hiding in their houses;

[Ensemble]
Justice
Justice

[Light]
All of them afraid to walk the street at night
With all their doors locked tight;

[Ensemble]
Afraid to walk the streets at night
With all their doors locked tight

[Light]
We must give them their justice;

[Ensemble]
Where is the justice?

[Light]
We owe them some justice;

[Ensemble]
Where is the justice?

[Light and Ensemble]
Where is the justice?

---

They're Only Human

(Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell)

(Ft. Carrie Manolakos & Eric Anderson)

[Ryuk]
Look at how they crawl around
Upon the ground
Like little ants

[Rem]
Yes, but how they fascinate
Confusing fate
With what is merely chance

[Ryuk]
Isn't it a laugh?

[Rem]
Isn't it a shame?

[Ryuk]
Thinking there is someone in Heaven to blame

[Rem]
Yes, but even while blaming fate for the lives that they lead
They hope for the lives that they need

[Ryuk]
Living every day 'til the day they die
Never getting answers


[Rem]
Yet still asking why
Going through the motions as if there will be a reward

[Ryuk]
While we stay eternally bored!

[Both]
They're only human
They don't see
Who they are is who they'll always be
Only human, after all

[Ryuk]
So they push and they shove

[Rem]
With this thing they call love

[Both]
'Til they fall!

[Ryuk]
Isn't it a farce?

[Rem]
Isn't it a waste?


[Ryuk]
Struggling to face what can never be faced

[Rem]
Yes, but maybe death can release something more than we share

[Ryuk]
I really don't know and don't care

[Both]
They're only human
Standing still
Doomed to live pushing boulders uphill
Only human, after all

[Ryuk]
So they give and they take

[Rem]
Hoping someone will help break their fall

[Ryuk]
They will pray, curse, live, die
Never knowing their truth is another man's lie

[Rem]
Eat, sleep, love, hate
Like a leaf blowing in the wind


[Ryuk]
Watch them all vacillate!

[Both]
They're only human
They can't see

[Ryuk]
All the years they could give you and me

[Both]
Only human, after all

[Rem]
So they give and we take

[Ryuk]
'Til their silly hearts break

[Rem]
Looking down from above
I'm intrigued by their love

[Ryuk]
So let's call!
Hmmm, let's call!

---

Change the World

(Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell)

[Light]
It's gotta be a joke, of course
Some fed-up cop who left the force
Or some civilian psychopath
Whose righteous wrath may be the source

(dialogue interlude)

But what would happen if it's true?
Imagine all that I could do
For with such power, I could change
And rearrange the world anew

(dialogue interlude)

If there's the slightest chance it's true
I'll write his name, what else can I do?

[Chorus (spoken)]
Forty...
Thirty-nine...
Thirty-eight...

[Light]
Now maybe justice sure and swift
Will become my clear-cut gift
To a system ripe for saving


Now let the Death Note play its part
And become a work of art
For the justice we're all craving

[Chorus (spoken)]
Four...
Three...
Two...
One...

---

Hurricane

(Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell)

[]
Did I hear correctly?
Did it really happen?
Was it simply done by writing down his name?

Killing indirectly
Pen and ink and paper
Writing is the gun, I only have to aim

Could this be the hour?
Unimagined power
Waiting to devour who I say?

The hardest rains
The coldest winds
Are waiting for the hurricane

The human stains
And all their sins
Blown away

The earth will shake
The sky will scream
Once they feel the power of the hurricane

Finally a chance to
Find a little justice
There's nowhere to run to once the name is penned

Take what fortune grants you
Use it while you've got it
Once you have begun you write it to the end

Elegant solution
Flawless execution
Righteous retribution on the way

I'll bring the rain
I'll bring the wind
I am the mighty hurricane

The human stains
And all their sins
Blown away

I'll bring the pain
So be afraid
I will bring the power of the hurricane


I am the God of a brave new world
Much better than the last
The time for talking is finally in the past

The hardest rains
The coldest winds
Are waiting for the hurricane

The human stains
And all their sins
Blown away

The hardest rains
The coldest winds
Are waiting for the hurricane

The human stains
And all their sins
Blown away

The earth will shake
The sky will scream
Once they feel the power of the hurricane!

---

Kira

(Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell)

[Ryuk:]
Where I come from is a world of bone and dust
No need to change, or readjust
Where the plight of human beings is ignored
And all I am, is always bored

So from time to time, I visit
Seeking fun and self defense
It's no big deal, really, is it?
And of no consequence

Except for Kira, Kira
Your brand new name
The masses cheering, Kira
Don't know he's Light Yagami, playing his dangerous game

Shinigami sit and gamble all day long
It isn't right, it isn't wrong
For there really isn't very much to do
So now and then, we spy on you

Humans are such funny creatures
Always thinking you're so smart
So we look down from our bleachers
While you tear things apart

Except for Kira, Kira
Your brand new name
The masses cheering, Kira
Don't know he's Light Yagami, playing his dangerous game

The more things change they say that
The more they stay the same
You think you're making changes
But the only thing you can change is your name

Because it's Kira, Kira
Whose justice is right
Because it's Kira, Kira
Who makes a list of people
Whose names he'll write down and-
Oh look, now there's an apple
Mind if I just take a bite?

---

I'm Ready

(Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell)

[Misa:]
Well, they say I'm too young
And they call me a fool
Who can't possibly know my own heart

So they tell me to wait
'Til I'm finished with school
But right now is when love wants to start

And the world may be cold
And the world may be cruel
But this world is all that I've got

So what I'm dreaming of
Is somebody to love
Hope you're ready, 'cause I'm ready
Ready or not

Because life is too short
And the road is too long
To believe you can walk it alone

But together we might
Find a place to belong
Where together we'll face the unknown

If you're ever afraid
You can just lean on me
And become all the things that you're not

Let me kiss you, and then
Let me kiss you again
If you're ready, 'cause I'm ready
Ready or not

I'm ready! Yes, I'm ready!
And I hope that baby you're ready, too
I'm ready! Yes, I'm ready!
'Cause I feel like I'm falling with you
I'm ready! Yes, I'm ready!
And I hope that baby you're ready, too
I'm ready! Yes, I'm ready!
Baby, ready or not, I'm in love with you

I don't care where we go
I don't care what we do
I don't care what the world has to say

'Cause the world doesn't know
What I feel about you
And that feeling just grows every day


If it's right or it's wrong
Only love sees you through
And love's really all that we've got

Close your eyes, baby, then
Let me kiss you again
Hope you're ready, 'cause I'm ready
Ready or not

I'm ready! Yes, I'm ready!
And I hope that baby you're ready, too
I'm ready! Yes, I'm ready!
'Cause I feel like I'm falling with you
I'm ready! Yes, I'm ready!
And I hope that baby you're ready, too
I'm ready! Yes, I'm ready!
Baby, ready or not, I'm in love with you

Baby, I can love you, come on over here now
Wait are you ready cuz I'm ready, ready set go boom
Baby you can let me come on over here now
Wait are you ready cuz im ready, ready set go boom

Baby, I can love you, come on over here now
Wait, are you ready cuz I'm ready, ready set go boom
Baby you can let me come on over here now
Wait are you ready cuz I


I'm ready, oh-oh-oh
I'm ready oh-oh-oh-oh-oh!

---

We All Need A Hero

(Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell)

[Sayu]
When I get afraid, and all hope is gone
I reach for your hand and I belong
Cause someone like you, who's scared but won't run
Is standing his ground for everyone

Because the best of us can come from anyplace
Helping the rest face what we must face

We all need a hero
Somebody to help us to be brave
We all need a hero
Someone he can save
We all need a hero
Believing that deep inside
We'll find there's some kind of hero too
Like the one I found in you

And so win or lose
We fight the good fight
As long as you try with all your might

A heart that is strong
A heart that is true
A heart that will risk it all to do


And whatever he can do when something must be done
Showing us we can do the same thing, one by one

We all need a hero
To rush in and try to save the day
We all need a hero
For dragons yet to slay
We all need a hero
To show us that deep inside
We'll find there's some kind of hero too
Like the one I found in you

A dreamer chasing dreams
A light that's always burning bright
Chasing the dark from the night

We all need a hero
Somebody to help us to be brave
We all need a hero
And causes lost to save
We all need a hero
Believing that deep inside
We'll find there's some kind of hero too
Like the one I found in you
Like the one I found in you

---

The Game Begins

(Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell)

[L]
Empty your mind of any theories
'Til all the facts are in
Start at the end of all your queries
To learn where things begin
You analyze by working backwards
Effects reveal their cause
For even perfect crimes have perfect flaws

The calculus of a solution
While changing, stays the same
The stronger mind of evolution
Determine who wins the game
I poke and prod to find a weakness
Where the bend becomes the break
And make the most of Kira's first mistake

The game begins the same way
I look for patterns on a screen
Connecting bits of data
Until I find out what they mean
The game begins

A kilobyte of information
And soon a corner's turned
Anticipate his adaptation (Ha!)
By using all you've learned
Some little thing, some minor detail
Will draw you in, and then
Another one will draw you out again

The game begins the same way
I look for patterns on a screen
Connecting bits of data
Until I find out what they mean

The game begins the same way
The chase is on, the die is cast
I sift a thousand pixels
Until I chase you down at last...
The game begins!

---

There are Lines

(Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell)

[Soichiro]
There are lines that can't be crossed
There are thing you shouldn't do
For you pay too high a cost
And you lose a piece of you

You don't justify the means
In the service of an end
Smashing laws to smithereens
Till there aren't any rules left to break or mend

Set a thief to catch a thief
Trap a liar with a lie
But don't traffic in this grief
In the name of eye for eye

Nothing wrong can turn out right
By saying wrong's all right to do
Men of principle must fight
So the truth that's in the man
That you are stays true

You don't kill someone
As a substitute
You don't load a gun
Close your eyes and shoot
You don't kill a man
Just to buy a clue
This is not a plan
Lawmen can pursue

Father, you know that I feel as you do
For these lessons I learned at your knee
And I think maybe by working with you
Helping you will be helpful for me

[Soichiro]
You don't kill someone

[Light]
You don't kill someone

[Soichiro]
As a substitute!

[Light]
As a substitute!

[Soichiro]
You don't load a gun

[Light]
You don't

[Soichiro, Light]
Close your eyes and shoot!


[Soichiro]
You don't kill a man just to read the signs

[Light]
That's no better than
Bad that good defines

[Soichiro]
Never cross these lines

[Light]
Never cross these lines

[Soichiro, Light]
Never cross these lines!

---

Secrets and Lies

(Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell)

[L]
All of the data has been analyzed
And yet there's something I don't see
The Lind. L Tailor murder televised
Kira killed a man who he thought was really me
What information is eluding me?
With just a name, how can he kill?
What other data does he have to see?
Does he need a face to apply his deadly skill?

[Soichiro]
How can I ever be at ease with L?
His methods lack a moral code
And as for Kira, he can go to hell
Taking L along down this dark and evil road

[Soichiro, L]
The truth is hard to sort out
Among the secrets and the lies
Familiar faces watch you
But with a perfect stranger's eyes

[Light]
Why give away half of my years to see somebody's name?
I'm smart enough, so it appears, to win this stupid game
I'll rid the world of any criminal who wants to play
And also rid the world of anybody who gets in my way

[Light, L]
The line is quickly blurring
Between what's right and what is not
I don't care who gets hurt now
As long as I get one more shot

[Light]
Why give away half of my years to see somebody's name?

[L]
What information is eluding me?

[Light]
I'm smart enough, so it appears, to win this stupid game

[L]
What other data does he have to see?

[Light]
I'll rid the world of any criminal who wants to play
And also rid the world of anybody who gets in my way

[L]
The truth is hard to sort out
Among the secrets and the lies


[Light]
Familiar faces watch you
But with a perfect stranger's eyes

[L, Light]
The line is quickly blurring between what's right and what is not
I don't care who gets hurt now
As long as I get one more shot!

---

Hurricane (Reprise 1)

(Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell)

[]
Did I hear correctly?
Did it really happen?
Was it simply done by writing down his name?

Killing indirectly
Pen and ink and paper
Writing is the gun, I only have to aim

Could this be the hour?
Unimagined power
Waiting to devour who I say?

The hardest rains
The coldest winds
Are waiting for the hurricane

The human stains
And all their sins
Blown away

The earth will shake
The sky will scream
Once they feel the power of the hurricane

Finally a chance to
Find a little justice
There's nowhere to run to once the name is penned

Take what fortune grants you
Use it while you've got it
Once you have begun you write it to the end

Elegant solution
Flawless execution
Righteous retribution on the way

I'll bring the rain
I'll bring the wind
I am the mighty hurricane

The human stains
And all their sins
Blown away

I'll bring the pain
So be afraid
I will bring the power of the hurricane


I am the God of a brave new world
Much better than the last
The time for talking is finally in the past

The hardest rains
The coldest winds
Are waiting for the hurricane

The human stains
And all their sins
Blown away

The hardest rains
The coldest winds
Are waiting for the hurricane

The human stains
And all their sins
Blown away

The earth will shake
The sky will scream
Once they feel the power of the hurricane!

---

Change the World (Reprise)

(Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell)

[Light]
It's gotta be a joke, of course
Some fed-up cop who left the force
Or some civilian psychopath
Whose righteous wrath may be the source

(dialogue interlude)

But what would happen if it's true?
Imagine all that I could do
For with such power, I could change
And rearrange the world anew

(dialogue interlude)

If there's the slightest chance it's true
I'll write his name, what else can I do?

[Chorus (spoken)]
Forty...
Thirty-nine...
Thirty-eight...

[Light]
Now maybe justice sure and swift
Will become my clear-cut gift
To a system ripe for saving


Now let the Death Note play its part
And become a work of art
For the justice we're all craving

[Chorus (spoken)]
Four...
Three...
Two...
One...

---

Where is the Justice (Reprise 1)

(Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell)

[Light]
Where is the justice
When the guilty all go free?
Why don't we lock them up
And throw away the key?

[Light's Teacher]
I see a young man's anger
Burning in your eyes;

[Light]
What you see is my impatience
With your noble compromise;

[Light]
Show me what's right about the wrongs that we allow
Real people need to feel protected here and now;
This whole damn system's broken way beyond repair
It's just law
Not law and order;
Not much good and seldom fair;

[Light's Classmate #1]
Laws were made for everyone
We're treated all the same;

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[Light]
Till a lawyer's tricks can fix the blame;
What about the victims
Waiting for some justice?
How can we turn away
And say that's just the way things are?
What about the families
Hiding in their houses
All of them afraid to walk the street at night
With all their doors locked tight
Tell me where is the justice
If there's any justice

[Light's Teacher]
Your simple arguments have all been made before (Ensemble Oh-oh's in the background)
The world's not black and white
The choice not either, or

[Light]
Perhaps it's time we drain the color from within
Till we're back to seeing black and white
And wrong and right again

[Light's Teacher]
Overwrought pronouncements won't improve the paradigm


[Light]
Till lawyers cutting deals becomes a crime;

[Light and Ensemble]
Let the corporations make the regulations
And all go unaccountable when everything goes wrong;
Let the rich and famous get away with murder;
Every time a high-priced mouth piece starts to talk
His client gets to walk;
Tell me where is the justice?
If there's any justice;

[Light]
Where is the justice

[Students]
Tell me where?

[Light]
For all the victims?

[Students]
Tell me where?

[Light]
Where is the justice?
What good is law that can't punish those who break it?


[Light's Classmate #2]
Politicians make their speeches all day long;
While judges pushing pencils mostly get it wrong;

[Ensemble]
Mostly get it wrong!


[Light's Classmate #3]
Instead of loopholes for the laws to fall between;
Let some good old fashioned payback
Grease the wheels of the machine;

[Ensemble]
Grease the wheels of the machine

[Light]
Isn't everybody sick to death of all this stuff
Can't we all stand up and say enough?

[Ensemble]
Time and stand up! We've had enough!
Justice
Justice
Justice
Now's the time for justice

[Light]
Listen to the fam'lies hiding in their houses;

[Ensemble]
Justice
Justice

[Light]
All of them afraid to walk the street at night
With all their doors locked tight;

[Ensemble]
Afraid to walk the streets at night
With all their doors locked tight

[Light]
We must give them their justice;

[Ensemble]
Where is the justice?

[Light]
We owe them some justice;

[Ensemble]
Where is the justice?

[Light and Ensemble]
Where is the justice?

---

Where is the Justice (Reprise 2)

(Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell)

[Light]
Where is the justice
When the guilty all go free?
Why don't we lock them up
And throw away the key?

[Light's Teacher]
I see a young man's anger
Burning in your eyes;

[Light]
What you see is my impatience
With your noble compromise;

[Light]
Show me what's right about the wrongs that we allow
Real people need to feel protected here and now;
This whole damn system's broken way beyond repair
It's just law
Not law and order;
Not much good and seldom fair;

[Light's Classmate #1]
Laws were made for everyone
We're treated all the same;

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[Light]
Till a lawyer's tricks can fix the blame;
What about the victims
Waiting for some justice?
How can we turn away
And say that's just the way things are?
What about the families
Hiding in their houses
All of them afraid to walk the street at night
With all their doors locked tight
Tell me where is the justice
If there's any justice

[Light's Teacher]
Your simple arguments have all been made before (Ensemble Oh-oh's in the background)
The world's not black and white
The choice not either, or

[Light]
Perhaps it's time we drain the color from within
Till we're back to seeing black and white
And wrong and right again

[Light's Teacher]
Overwrought pronouncements won't improve the paradigm


[Light]
Till lawyers cutting deals becomes a crime;

[Light and Ensemble]
Let the corporations make the regulations
And all go unaccountable when everything goes wrong;
Let the rich and famous get away with murder;
Every time a high-priced mouth piece starts to talk
His client gets to walk;
Tell me where is the justice?
If there's any justice;

[Light]
Where is the justice

[Students]
Tell me where?

[Light]
For all the victims?

[Students]
Tell me where?

[Light]
Where is the justice?
What good is law that can't punish those who break it?


[Light's Classmate #2]
Politicians make their speeches all day long;
While judges pushing pencils mostly get it wrong;

[Ensemble]
Mostly get it wrong!


[Light's Classmate #3]
Instead of loopholes for the laws to fall between;
Let some good old fashioned payback
Grease the wheels of the machine;

[Ensemble]
Grease the wheels of the machine

[Light]
Isn't everybody sick to death of all this stuff
Can't we all stand up and say enough?

[Ensemble]
Time and stand up! We've had enough!
Justice
Justice
Justice
Now's the time for justice

[Light]
Listen to the fam'lies hiding in their houses;

[Ensemble]
Justice
Justice

[Light]
All of them afraid to walk the street at night
With all their doors locked tight;

[Ensemble]
Afraid to walk the streets at night
With all their doors locked tight

[Light]
We must give them their justice;

[Ensemble]
Where is the justice?

[Light]
We owe them some justice;

[Ensemble]
Where is the justice?

[Light and Ensemble]
Where is the justice?

---

Mortals and Fools

(Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell)

[Rem]
What I see in your eyes
Is a counterfeit emotion
Nearly true, pretty lies
Promise all you're dreaming of

Like a frog in a well
Who is sure he's in the ocean
You believe in the spell
Of this thing that you call love

Try as I will, I just don't understand it
Love is for mortals and fools
Never turns out quite the way that you planned it
So why do you break all the rules?

[Misa]
What I feel is so real
That it sets my poor heart racing
Something you'll never know
Though you live a thousand years

[Rem]
Half a life
Is the deal to discover who you're chasing
Half a life

[Misa]
Even so, worth it all if he appears

[Rem, Misa]
Try as you might, you will not understand it
[Rem]
Love is for mortals and fools
[Rem, Misa]
Never turns out quite the way that you planned it
[Misa]
Love makes you break all the rules

[Misa]
Love can make you come alive

[Rem]
Or take your life away
Love should make you leave

[Misa]
But makes you stay
For love can make you happy
In a house where love is made

[Rem]
Then it makes you wary and afraid


[Rem]
Try as I might, never will understand it
Love is for mortals and fools
Never turns out quite the way that you planned it

[Misa]
Love is for making

[Rem]
Life is for taking

[Rem, Misa]
Love makes you break all the rules
Love makes you break all the rules

---

Stalemate

(Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell)

[L]
Each time I challenge he responds
He takes the bait as if he's taunting me
He waves a hundred magic wands
And soon a hundred men just cease to be

I haven't figured out just how
He doesn't kill them with a knife or gun
But if you ask me here and now
I'm pretty sure Kira is your son

[Light]
I wonder if this guy's for real
I wonder is he who he claims to be
And if he is, then what's the deal?
Why would he make a point of telling me?

[L]
He doesn't rattle easily
He's such a calm and cool collected guy
And if he kills while he's with me
Like it or not, I have his alibi

[L, Light]
All or nothing so let's get to it
This time's stalemate but
Just you wait
Clock is ticking so
Let's just do it
Let's begin, thick or thin, lose or win
This is it!

[Light]
His name is obviously fake
So he inoculates himself from me
He's waiting for my first mistake
So I'll wait also but more patiently

[L]
Just like two actors on a stage
Go through the motions that we both rehearse
Our little new atomic age
Eyeball to eyeball
We'll see who blinks first

[L, Light]
All or nothing so let's get to it
This time's stalemate but
Just you wait
Clock is ticking so
Let's just do it
No taboos, light the fuse, win or lose
This is it!

[Misa]
I know you're gonna love my brand new song
It's full of private, little, hidden clues
So we can find each other in a crowd
And when we do, you know I'm yours to use


I feel like we were born for just one thing
I know we're gonna be a perfect fit
You'll be my heart and I'll be your eyes
It's me and you forever
This is it!

[L, Light]
All or nothing so let's get to it
This time's stalemate but
Just you wait
Clock is ticking so
Let's just do it

[L]
Let's begin!

[Light]
Light the fuse!

[L]
Go all in!

[Light]
Win or lose

[L]
Lose or win


[L, Light]
This is it!

---

I'll Only Love You More

(Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell)

[Misa]
You wake me, you take me
Remake me more than anyone
I'll show you, I know you
I owe you, more than anyone

You rescue me from all my tears
I'd gladly give you half my years

I'd pay any price for finding you
And spend what's left reminding you
My restless life is worth so much more
Because of you worth living for
If I find you maybe love me too
I'll only love you more

I'm here now, it's clear now
You're near now, please, please don't run away
I feel you, so will you
Reveal you, don't wanna run away

I'll read your name and see your face
A kiss away from your embrace

I'd pay any price for finding you
And spend what's left reminding you
My restless life is worth so much more
Because of you worth living for
If I find you maybe love me too
I'll only love you more

My golden temple by the sea
You are my kamakura tree

I'd pay any price for finding you
And spend what's left reminding you
My restless life is worth so much more
Because of you worth living for
If I find you maybe love me too
I'll only love you more

I'm here now, it's clear now
You're near now

---

The Way Things Are

(Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell)

[L]
Every fact that I thought I knew
Is subverting me
Deserting me
Every truth I was sure was true
Is on shaky ground
Has come unwound

What if the things I see
Are not as they appear
Are impossible, yet clear
How can I deny it?

Always only believed what was
Right in front of me
What I could see
Shinigami are real because
It's the only way
The only way

When all other explanations
Really don't explain
No matter how insane
You are left with only

The cold, hard truth
Can't shut it down
You can't change it
You can't turn it off
Or turn it 'round
Can't rearrange it


The cold, hard truth
A ragged scar
To remind you never forget
The way things are

I won't let who I used to be
How I used to think
Get me out of sync
I'll turn into a different me
Not so cynical
Not so clinical

Light is willing to risk it all
Defying all the odds
If I must, I'll fight the gods
'Til our war is over

The cold, hard truth
Can't lock it out
You can't change it
True or false, no
Shadow of a doubt
Can't rearrange it

The cold, hard truth
Is my north star
So I know I'll live and I'll die
The way things are


Frame by frame
I see this movie in black and white
Shot by shot
Minute by minute, just me and Light

The cold, hard truth
The way things are
I can't change it
Even if the truth
Seems too bizarre
I can't change it

The cold, hard truth
Is my north star
So no matter what he might try
Shake the heavens
Shatter the sky
I know we must both live and die
The way things are

---

Mortals and Fools (Reprise)

(Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell)

[Rem]
What I see in your eyes
Is a counterfeit emotion
Nearly true, pretty lies
Promise all you're dreaming of

Like a frog in a well
Who is sure he's in the ocean
You believe in the spell
Of this thing that you call love

Try as I will, I just don't understand it
Love is for mortals and fools
Never turns out quite the way that you planned it
So why do you break all the rules?

[Misa]
What I feel is so real
That it sets my poor heart racing
Something you'll never know
Though you live a thousand years

[Rem]
Half a life
Is the deal to discover who you're chasing
Half a life

[Misa]
Even so, worth it all if he appears

[Rem, Misa]
Try as you might, you will not understand it
[Rem]
Love is for mortals and fools
[Rem, Misa]
Never turns out quite the way that you planned it
[Misa]
Love makes you break all the rules

[Misa]
Love can make you come alive

[Rem]
Or take your life away
Love should make you leave

[Misa]
But makes you stay
For love can make you happy
In a house where love is made

[Rem]
Then it makes you wary and afraid


[Rem]
Try as I might, never will understand it
Love is for mortals and fools
Never turns out quite the way that you planned it

[Misa]
Love is for making

[Rem]
Life is for taking

[Rem, Misa]
Love makes you break all the rules
Love makes you break all the rules

---

Honor Bound

(Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell)

[Soichiro]
Any grounds for L's suspicion surely lie with me
I must catch this monster Kira so the world can see
My son is exactly who he seems to be
Honor bound and bound by honesty

Accusations, innuendos, theories full of cracks
Timelines and coincidences can't replace hard facts
But if what I'm seeing, bends as light reflects
Am I blinded to what my son lacks?

If I thought these lies were true
Would I have the strength to do
Anything I need to do
For justice's sake?

Could I stand the pain and lies
If it's Kira that I find
Behind Light's eyes?

Listen to me, am I crazy?
Thinking he could be
Some insane, unfeeling monster somehow raised by me

Must come to my senses and my sanity
Let me see the son I need to see
Honor bound and bound by honesty
Honor bound to serve his family

---

Playing His Game

(Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell)

[Light]
Time to rethink
And begin
With a brand new game plan
Margin for error is slim

[L]
He's on the brink
He can win
I can't use the same plan
Time to start thinking like him

[Light]
What would I do if I got inside his head?
[L]
Thought like him instead?
[Light]
Could it be
[L]
Possibly

[Light, L]
I'll catch him when
I look through his eyes
See what he sees
And then improvise
Until I can learn what puts him at ease
I'll walk in his shoes
As long as it takes
Till deep in my bones
I'm sure he's
One and the same as the me who is playing his game

[Verse 2]
What does he do
Late at night
When the world is sleeping
Does he see pixels, not dreams

[L]
Hard to be true
Always right
All that promise keeping
Harder I'm sure than it seems

[Light]
How would it be if I saw the world like him?
[L]
Like a synonym
[Light]
Bit by bit
[L]
Wit by wit

[Light, L]
Catch him, I win
I'll mimic his will
And learn his routines
And feel the same thrill
Whenever my end is served by his means
I'll walk in his shoes
As long as it takes
Till deep in my bones
I'm sure he is
One and the same as the me who is playing his game


[L]
Steady
I must be ever so careful
Don't move until you are ready
He will be careful too

[Light]
Know it
Always stay calm and collected
Don't lose your cool or you'll blow it
Then he will unravel you

[Light & L]
Get into his head
And under his skin
The things that he said
The food that he likes
The places he's been
I'll look through his eyes
And see what he sees
Till I see the forest, not just the trees
I'll mimic his will
And learn his routines
And feel the same thrill and know what it means
I'll walk in his shoes
As long as it takes
Till deep in my bones I'm sure
I'm winning my game while I'm saying
I'm playing his game

---

Playing His Game (Reprise)

(Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell)

[Light]
Time to rethink
And begin
With a brand new game plan
Margin for error is slim

[L]
He's on the brink
He can win
I can't use the same plan
Time to start thinking like him

[Light]
What would I do if I got inside his head?
[L]
Thought like him instead?
[Light]
Could it be
[L]
Possibly

[Light, L]
I'll catch him when
I look through his eyes
See what he sees
And then improvise
Until I can learn what puts him at ease
I'll walk in his shoes
As long as it takes
Till deep in my bones
I'm sure he's
One and the same as the me who is playing his game

[Verse 2]
What does he do
Late at night
When the world is sleeping
Does he see pixels, not dreams

[L]
Hard to be true
Always right
All that promise keeping
Harder I'm sure than it seems

[Light]
How would it be if I saw the world like him?
[L]
Like a synonym
[Light]
Bit by bit
[L]
Wit by wit

[Light, L]
Catch him, I win
I'll mimic his will
And learn his routines
And feel the same thrill
Whenever my end is served by his means
I'll walk in his shoes
As long as it takes
Till deep in my bones
I'm sure he is
One and the same as the me who is playing his game


[L]
Steady
I must be ever so careful
Don't move until you are ready
He will be careful too

[Light]
Know it
Always stay calm and collected
Don't lose your cool or you'll blow it
Then he will unravel you

[Light & L]
Get into his head
And under his skin
The things that he said
The food that he likes
The places he's been
I'll look through his eyes
And see what he sees
Till I see the forest, not just the trees
I'll mimic his will
And learn his routines
And feel the same thrill and know what it means
I'll walk in his shoes
As long as it takes
Till deep in my bones I'm sure
I'm winning my game while I'm saying
I'm playing his game

---

Borrowed Time

(Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell)

You can tie me up and you can hold me down and
You can ask me questions and try to turn me round and
Take me to the edge and push me off a ledge and
You can do most anything you want to do to me now

But you will never change my mind
No, no, no!

So tie me up and try to break me
You will never change my mind
I'd rather die then let you make me betray him
The years roll on with or without me
I'm already gone cause I'm living on borrowed time

You can try to trick me into what you're seekin'
Give me drugs and make me start to crack and weaken
You can tell me lies and you can blind my eyes and
You can do your best to do you worst and get in my head

But I will hold on longer than you
No, no, no!

So you can tie me up and try to break me
You will never change my heart
I'd rather die than let you make me betray him!
The years roll on with or without me
I'm already gone cause I'm living on borrowed time

I'm cheating death with every breath
And every song and every sigh
With every day that I don't die
Is borrowed time!

So tie me up and try to break me
You will never change my heart
I'd rather die than let you make me betray him!
The years roll on with or without me
I'm already gone cause I'm living
Oh yes, I'm living
On borrowed time!

---

When Love Comes

(Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell)

[Rem:]
Oooooooh
People have always talked about it, I have always lived without it
Never understood its magic spell
It can take your breath away
So that's what the poets say
Guess they ought to know but who can tell?
Never believed that anything could feel this true
Don't see it coming till its standing right in front of you

When love comes, it takes you by surprise
You see things through someone else's eyes
When love comes, you will never be the same
It scares you, still you hope it stays forever
When love comes

Finally there's someone to cry for
Someone I would gladly die for
Someone who is all the way alive
Can't believe the peace I'm feeling
Almost like it can't be real
Even if I die, love will survive
Funny the things the human heart will put you through
Don't see it coming till its standing right in front of you

When love comes
It catches you off-guard, so easy
Don't notice it's alive
When love comes, it happens way too fast
You hope you make the moment last forever
When love comes

You are the only part of me I'm certain will live on
All I ask of you is to remember love is never gone

When love comes
Don't let it slip away!
Just hold on and treasure it everyday
When love comes
It struggles to belong
Don't fight it
Share a kiss and then surrender
When love comes

---

The Way Things Are (Reprise)

(Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell)

[L]
Every fact that I thought I knew
Is subverting me
Deserting me
Every truth I was sure was true
Is on shaky ground
Has come unwound

What if the things I see
Are not as they appear
Are impossible, yet clear
How can I deny it?

Always only believed what was
Right in front of me
What I could see
Shinigami are real because
It's the only way
The only way

When all other explanations
Really don't explain
No matter how insane
You are left with only

The cold, hard truth
Can't shut it down
You can't change it
You can't turn it off
Or turn it 'round
Can't rearrange it


The cold, hard truth
A ragged scar
To remind you never forget
The way things are

I won't let who I used to be
How I used to think
Get me out of sync
I'll turn into a different me
Not so cynical
Not so clinical

Light is willing to risk it all
Defying all the odds
If I must, I'll fight the gods
'Til our war is over

The cold, hard truth
Can't lock it out
You can't change it
True or false, no
Shadow of a doubt
Can't rearrange it

The cold, hard truth
Is my north star
So I know I'll live and I'll die
The way things are


Frame by frame
I see this movie in black and white
Shot by shot
Minute by minute, just me and Light

The cold, hard truth
The way things are
I can't change it
Even if the truth
Seems too bizarre
I can't change it

The cold, hard truth
Is my north star
So no matter what he might try
Shake the heavens
Shatter the sky
I know we must both live and die
The way things are

---

The Way It Ends

(Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell)

[L]
I'm sitting down and pouring tea as if I do it every day
Go through the motions like the hands upon a clock
Though it feels right a part of me knows that it's wrong
As if another's will had moved me

It's like I'm hitting all my marks, as if I'm acting in a play
So out of character, yet somehow not a shock
I'm like a software program caught in an endless loop
Just bad code that keeps repeating

[L]
Is this the way it ends now?
How could I not see this coming?
My camera's cloudy lens now
Takes much darker pictures than before

[Light]
I know by now you understand you're but a pawn upon a board
I've won the game but never gave up half my years
Life will continue just the way I've always planned
Let the cold, hard justice crash the system

I've always stayed a step ahead
But you were with me the whole way
Until I played upon a Shinigami's fears
For Misa's love, she wrote your name then left upon a breeze
Into the sands of dust and darkness

[Chorus]
This is the way it ends now!

[L]
See it flicker, hear it humming

[Light]
My power just extends now!
Rem has written, you will write no more!

[Bridge]
I've seen through you right from the start!

[Light]
I've simply let you play your part!

[L]
You'll never ever get away!

[Light]
Don't you see that you will die today?

[Chorus]
Is this the way it ends now?
How could I not see this coming?
The message that it sends now
Sounds exactly like a closing door


[Light]
This is the way it ends now!
See it blazing, hear it drumming

[L]
Like a closing door!

[Light]
Feel how a minute spends now
When you wish you had a minute more

[L]
Like a closing door

[Light]
A minute more

---

Hurricane (Reprise 2)

(Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell)

[]
Did I hear correctly?
Did it really happen?
Was it simply done by writing down his name?

Killing indirectly
Pen and ink and paper
Writing is the gun, I only have to aim

Could this be the hour?
Unimagined power
Waiting to devour who I say?

The hardest rains
The coldest winds
Are waiting for the hurricane

The human stains
And all their sins
Blown away

The earth will shake
The sky will scream
Once they feel the power of the hurricane

Finally a chance to
Find a little justice
There's nowhere to run to once the name is penned

Take what fortune grants you
Use it while you've got it
Once you have begun you write it to the end

Elegant solution
Flawless execution
Righteous retribution on the way

I'll bring the rain
I'll bring the wind
I am the mighty hurricane

The human stains
And all their sins
Blown away

I'll bring the pain
So be afraid
I will bring the power of the hurricane


I am the God of a brave new world
Much better than the last
The time for talking is finally in the past

The hardest rains
The coldest winds
Are waiting for the hurricane

The human stains
And all their sins
Blown away

The hardest rains
The coldest winds
Are waiting for the hurricane

The human stains
And all their sins
Blown away

The earth will shake
The sky will scream
Once they feel the power of the hurricane!

---

Requiem

(Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell)

[Ensemble]
Sleep now
Here among your choices
Then drift away
Here now, how the world rejoices
Shades of grey
Gone, who was right or wrong
Who was weak or strong
Nothing left to learn
Feel every gentle breeze
Whisper through the trees
As the seasons turn
Souls sing their oratory
Fading west as they fly (Fading as they fly)
Tales full of fleeting glories
Stories old as the word "good"
(Goodbye)
A-ah old as the word goodbye