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 your 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) Not even one of you (finding you can change) 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) I've made all my moves (song as old as rhyme) Seconds from the truth Beauty and the- (Beauty and the-) Beauty and the- Beast (Beauty and the Beast)