The Spirit Of Man (From The War Of The Worlds, the musical) long version

BETH = Joss Stone
PARSON = Maverick Sabre
JOURNALIST = Liam Neeson

BETH (Sung): No Nathaniel!
Oh no Nathaniel

BETH: Nathaniel! I saw the church burst into flame! Are you all right?

PARSON: Don't touch me!

BETH: But it's me - Beth. Your wife.

PARSON: No. You're one of them. A devil!

BETH: But they're not devils - they're Martians

JOURNALIST: Yes they came from mars not from God

PARSON: Lies! I saw the devil's sign.

BETH: What are you saying?

PARSON: The green flash in the sky. His demons were here all along - in our hearts and souls - just waiting for a sign from him. And now they're destroying our world.

BETH: (to JOURNALIST) He's delirious!

JOURNALIST: Now holds ……………. Calamity?

PARSON: it would I be fair after all my promises I couldnt help the people, and inmediatly?

JOURNALIST: take calm you got the chance again but


JOURNALIST: We must leave here.

BETH: Look! A house still standing! Come, Nathaniel, quickly!

JOURNALIST: We took shelter in a cottage and Black Smoke spread, hemming us in. Then a Fighting Machine came across the fields, spraying jets of steam that turned the smoke into thick, black dust.

MARTIANS: Ulla!

BETH: Dear God - help us!

PARSON: The voice of the devil is heard in our land!

PARSON (Sung): Listen, do you hear them drawing near in their search for the sinners?
Feeding on the power of our fear and the evil within us
Incarnation of Satan's creation of all that we dread
When the demons arrive those alive would be better off dead!

BETH (Sung): There must be something worth living for
There must be something worth trying for
Even some things worth dying for
And if one man can stand tall
There must be hope for us all
Somewhere, somewhere, in the spirit of man

PARSON (Sung): Once there was a time when I believed without hesitation
That the power of love and truth could conquer all in the name of salvation
Tell me what kind of weapon is love, when it comes to the fight
And just how much protection is truth against all Satan's might

BETH (Sung): There must be something worth living for
There must be something worth trying for
Even some things worth dying for
And if one man can stand tall
There must be some hope for us all
Somewhere, somewhere in the spirit of man

BETH: People loved you and trusted you, came to you for help

PARSON: Didn't I warn them this would happen?
Be on your guard, I said.
For the Evil One never rests.
I said exorcise the devil.
But no, they wouldn't listen.
The demons inside them grew and grew.
Until Satan gave his signal.
And destroyed the world we knew.

BETH (Sung): No, Nathaniel
Oh no Nathaniel!
No, Nathaniel, no
There must be more to life
There has to be a way
That we can restore to life
The love we used to know
No, Nathaniel, no
There must be more to life
There has to be a way
That we can restore to life
The light that we have lost

PARSON (Sung): Now darkness has descended on our land and all your prayers cannot save us
Like fools we've let the devil take command of the souls that God gave us
To the altar of evil like lambs to the slaughter we're led
When the demons arrive, the survivors will envy the dead!

BETH (Sung): There must be something worth living for

PARSON (Sung): No, there is nothing!

BETH (Sung): There must be something worth trying for

PARSON (Sung): I don't believe it's so

BETH (Sung): Even some things worth dying for
If just one man could stand tall
There would be some hope for us all
Somewhere, somewhere in the spirit of man

PARSON : Forget about goodness and mercy - they're gone.

PARSON: Didn't I warn them...
Pray I said.
Destroy the devil, I said...
They wouldn't listen.
I could have saved the world.
But now it's too late.
Too late!!!

BETH (Sung): No, Nathaniel
Oh no, Nathaniel
No, Nathaniel, no
There must be more to life
There has to be a way
That we can restore to life
The love we used to know
No, Nathaniel, no
There must be more to life
There has to be a way
That we can restore to life
The light that we have lost

Nathaniel
Oh no, Nathaniel
No, Nathaniel, no
No, Nathaniel, no


PARSON: Dear God! A cylinder's landed on the house! And we're underneath it - in the pit!

JOURNALIST: The Martians spent the night making a new machine. It was a squat, metallic spider with huge articulated claws - but it, too, had a hood in which a Martian sat. I watched it pursuing some people across a field. It caught them nimbly and tossed them into a great metal basket upon its back.

PARSON : Beth! She's dead! Buried under the rubble. Why?
Satan! Why did you take one of your own?

PARSON (sung):There is a curse on Mankind.
We may as well be resigned.
To let the devil, the devil take the spirit of man

BETH (sung)Nathaniel
Oh no, Nathaniel
No, Nathaniel, no
No, Nathaniel, no
Nathaniel

JOURNALIST: As time passed in our dark and dusty prison, the Parson wrestled endlessly with his doubts. His outcries invited death for us both - and yet I pitied him.