[Professor 1] Frankenstein, we find your ideas shocking, dangerous And an affront to all that is moral and decent [Professor 2] It’s insanity! Only a fool or a heretic would dare trifle With life and death as you propose [Professor 3] Your obsession with discredited charlatans And their dubious science is pure folly [Professor 4] The university will not stand for these outlandish And unauthorized experiments of yours [Professor 5] It is complete madness! [All] It is madness, folly, insanity [Professor 1] The dead have nothing to say to you [Condemned man] I curse the day that I was born Into a world so black with hate I'll glady leave this life of scorn And seek my peace before the light of heaven's gate I have my sins like any man But none more dark than yours If it is I you choose to damn Innocent blood will stain your hands forever more [Executioner] For crimes against the people [Mob] Your kind has no place but the grave [Executioner] The magistrate of ingolstadt hereby sentences you [Mob] Not even a soul that can be saved [Executioner] To be hanged by the neck until dead [Mob] Soon you will know eternal pain [Executioner] This sixteenth day of September, seventeen, hundred and [Mob] Your kind has no place but the grave [Condemned man] What's wrong? What's right? [Mob] Not even a soul that can be saved [Condemned man] Does man decide? [Mob] Soon you will know eternal pan [Condemned man] Who dares to act as God? [Mob] A man would dare to act as God! [Victor] Another soul Another light Another flame extinguished One moment here, and then it's gone A heart is beating, then is done The difference barely is distinguished [The ancient riddle] What then is life? What is it's fleeting essence? The greatest minds have sought the key That could unlock this mystery And I alone possess it What I have found was thought impossible And only spoken of in fear If I show them the impossible Create a life Then all must hear! [Mob] Let God's will be done [Victor] The gauntlet waits It calls to me [Condemned man] What's wrong? What's right? [Victor] Crying destiny's demands [Mob] Make him pay! [Condemned man] Does man decide? [Victor] The very fate of all mankind [Mob] Finish what's begun! [Victor] Rests in this mind [Condemned man] Who dares to act as God? [Victor] And in these hands [Mob] Upon this judgement day [Condemned man] Oh my creator Claim me now Grant to me this nightmare's end And if no man shall mourn for me I'll trust in you A-men [Executioner] Who will tend to the remains? I say Who claims this body?! [Victor] I do