TO LIVE LIKE THIS

ARMAND
Just look at you!
Who do you think you are?
To flaunt our laws with your rash ways.
To mock [bad word] with disregard.

LESTAT
Just look at me, well, I say look at you.
You hug these walls like half starved rats.
filthy cowering vermin crew!

ARMAND
We were born the devil’s darkest
And shun your forms of gaudiness.
While you parade among the living,
We haunt the solemn world of death!

ENSEMBLE
We haunt the solemn world.
Haunt the solemn world of death!
You break the Dark Laws!
You'll die for your sins!

Lestat
Why is it a sin to walk among mortals?

Armand
You threaten the secrecy we have protected for thousands of years. We exist to strike fear into the hearts of men. Our Dark Laws forbid us to seek mortal pleasures, or enter their holy places, or go about as one of them!

ARMAND
Your presence here is poison in our veins!
Your human traits sour our beliefs.
Your arrogance should be your shame!

ENSEMBLE
Your arrogance,
Arrogance,
Arrogance!
Should be your shame!
Break the Dark Laws!
You'll die for your sins!

Lestat
You're a hypocrite! If we are sinners, so are you. Yes, we went into God's house but Armand followed us in there.

Armand
Who among you would believe this heretic? We have been cast out by God! If I had gone into a church he would have [bad word] me dead.

ARMAND
Beware this smooth tongued libertine.
He’ll share with you his grand demise.

LESTAT
See his logic [bad word] like a corpse.
No god or [bad word] your lives!

Lestat
And there it is. Your Dark Laws are lies. cross can't harm you! This sad ghost has held you in a grip of fear and superstition for far too long. Everything he has taught you to believe is a lie!

LESTAT
 [bad word] in me.
There is no need
For anyone to live like this, and not believe.
The night holds more than darkness and the stars.
Don’t fear the world out there, because of who you are.
Just free yourselves and you will see
There is no need to live like this.
No need!

Armand
Whatever happens in years [bad word]  remember this was his doing. I gave you sanctuary, Laurent. I gave you purpose! And he destroyed all of it! This is finished, but you and I have only begun.

LESTAT
 [bad word] in me.
There is no need
For anyone to live like this and not believe!
I can only give you hope, not show you how.
The chains that held you fast
No longer bind you now.
Just [bad word] yourselves and you will see
There is no need to live like this.
You're free!