Welcome

OBERON

Welcome, my precious mortals

Such an honour that you’re here tonight

Enter your imagination

And behold each lovely sprite

SPRITES CHORUS

We live in secret places

Deep within the mysteries of your mind

Artfully we weave our stories

Strangely so intertwined

When you’re away with the fairies you’ll see

We flit across your dreams and your reveries

Dancing, we swirl and swoop around you merrily

When you tear the fabric of your mind

Through the gap, the fairies flutter in

With song and dance – the sweetest trance – we’ll dazzle you

And sometimes we crash and really put you in a spin!

OBERON

Welcome – I should have warned you

Goblins love to preach and prattle on

Think they’ll change the King of Fairies

I won’t budge – I’m Oberon. Please!

Hush with your prudish sermons

Moralising really is passé

I’ve no time for bellyaching bores

Makes me just more blasé

I’m so in love with the maidens – it’s true

You humans are such fragile and quirky things

Goodness - I’d love to marry every one of you!

SPRITES CHORUS

Gosh! Titania would be sad to hear

Then again, she dallies with the Duke –

OBERON

Puke! Come on bower - grant me a flower – elixir sweet

Some magic to make a mortal queen

Linger upon an endless dream so she’ll be mine!