Tale as old as time
True as it can be
Watch the petals fall
Desperate as you crawl
On your knees, to me

It's your final page
Fairytale complete
You see in this world, we're merely players, but the truth is
I'm the beauty, you're the beast

Ever just the same
Ever a surprise
I've seen this before
Falling at my door
Desperate for your prize

You thought we're a match
Sweetheart, I am far smarter than that
There is no one living that can challenge me
You're unworthy
And that, love, is a fact

(Ooh)

What a genius plan
Truly, did you think this through?
Trap the smartest girl in all the land?
Let you all believe I would go quietly
While I sat and planned my hand
I have not spent my life reading books, my hours studying
To be some desperate prince's lonely wife
Wanna lock me away? Well, by all means, have your fun with that
But I will be the author of my life
So to hell with your flower, you're all idiots for thinking
That you'd really make it out of this alive (Make it out alive)

(Tale as old as time)
You are nothing but a monster to me
(Tune as old as song)
Less than nothing, you're not worth my pity
(Bittersweet and strange, finding you can change)
Not even one of you
(Learning you were wrong)
Is a rival to what I can do

(Certain as the sun)
Underestimated all this time
(Rising in the east)
Don't you get it? This is my design!
(Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme)
I've made all my moves
Seconds from the truth

Beauty and the
(Beauty and the)
Beauty and the Beast
(Beauty and the Beast)