Emma and her father, shocked to see the true form her new husband.
The Wedding Reception is a mostly spoken track that appears on the 1994 Complete Works Gothic Musical Thriller album. It details the final scene of the show, where Dr Henry Jekyll reverts to Hyde for the last time, losing control and nearly strangling his fiancée after breaking the neck of his rival Simon Stride. He manages return to his usual form long enough to beg his friend Utterson to kill him, and he is shot, dying in his beloved's arms.
Difference between versions[edit | edit source]
In later versions of the show, Jekyll kills himself by leaping onto Utterson's swordstick. In every subsequent recording, the final scene merely contains Emma's farewell to Jekyll, simply titled Finale.
Lyrics[edit | edit source]
JEKYLL
Mrs. Jekyll, may I have this dance?
LISA
Doctor Jekyll, you may have every dance.
UTTERSON
Henry, what is it?
JEKYLL
Don't make a fuss... Terrible pain... Get me out of here... Need to breathe.
UTTERSON
Oh, my God!
JEKYLL
Oh, God, what now?
Oh God, not now!
Help me somehow!
Please take the pain away!
Feel it fill me!
This will kill me!
Please, God, will me
Somehow to fight, I pray!
Oh, God, help me!
God have mercy!
Don't let her see!
Not on our wedding day!
LISA
Henry?
HYDE
There is no Henry!... Only Hyde!
STRIDE
Look at this monster, Lisa!
HYDE
And what would you have done with her, Stride? Put her in one of your Camden Town whorehouses and rented her out a shilling a time?
STRIDE
Damn you, Jekyll - enough!
HYDE
Enough, indeed! End-of-game! We seem to be married, my love! Ready for our bridal bed, are you?
UTTERSON
Henry, stay back! Don't touch her! I beg you - stop! Stop now!
LISA
Henry! Oh God, Henry...
UTTERSON
Lisa, no! Stay back!
LISA
Henry, it's me! If this is you, show me!
SIR DANVERS
No! Stop him!
HYDE
Stay! Or she dies!
LISA
Henry, I know you don't want to hurt me! I know you can hear me... Let me go... Henry, please... For us... Let me go... please...
JEKYLL
Do it, John. I beg you. Set me free.
UTTERSON
I can't, Henry!
JEKYLL
We promised, remember?
UTTERSON
Forgive me.
LISA
NO!
HYDE / JEKYLL
Lisa... Lisa... Lisa...
LISA
Go to sleep, my tormented love.
