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Twenty-three songs across two acts. Tap any title to read the lyrics.
— Act 1 —
01 Save My Soul
Listen to your fortune, then run away
Loving or beloved, it's hard to say
Many moving pieces on the board play
To their own devices
A wish is like a mother, giving life
All her little babies come in the night
Wanting to survive it, they'll all fight
Never say surrender
Oh, my soul
As I play another game
Save my soul
Or are they all the same?
A bishop or a pawn, well, you'll never know
'Til the match is played and who has to go
Run into the battle, one fatal
Blow(ing) like the wind
Who will be the winner, there's only one
Hero in morning, beneath the sun
Now that you possess it, what have you won?
Was it what you wanted?
Oh, my soul
As we play another game
Save my soul
Aren't we all the same?
02 Meet Your Queen
Here I am now bow down and adore me
I'm divine with power from above
Listen close and you will know my story
As a viper and a holy dove
Meet your queen, meet your queen, meet your queen alright
Meet your queen, meet your queen, meet your queen
She's your queen, she's your queen, she's your queen tonight
Pledge your love and follow her into the night
Let my song and dance become your memory
Present, future, every single day
Cleopatra is the one and only
To your mother, goddess do you pray
03 I Can't Go Slow
Go on
I can't go slow now
Now that I want you
I feel like I'm bleeding out
Let's go
To somewhere no one goes
And we'll tango
Under the moonlit night
Hey, while I don't understand
I can't go on anymore
Pretending is ending
Find out what is true
Is it you?
Reason, may well as be treason
As I'm betraying
All of my passion for fashion
Bright light
Will follow the dark night
Illuminating the depths of my desire
04 A Little Competition
I feel a little competition
Now I realize that I'm the one who needed saving
She may be the key who opens up my door
I apologize if my behavior makes you crazy
We knew what the game was, we both knew the score
I never thought it would be alright
Did you think it would be alright?
Everything is a contract and
I can't say that I'm surprised
Then we happened to build a life
You were happy to be my wife
There are feelings we can't decide
My heart needs salvation tonight
Oh, lovely dear, I do believe it's time we sever
I must stay behind here, I must see this through
Not every goodbye must necessarily be forever
A love that is divided will show if it is true
05 All Alone
Running away to where, I don't know
Overhead a shining star is all alone
Pointing where it thinks I oughta go to
Run away, where it's safe, running home
Home will never feel the same without you
Faraway, faraway, on my own
Will I ever love again, I don't know?
Is there gonna be a price to pay, no one knows
Never really run until you have to
Runaway from your heart and your home
Walk into the heat and to the heartache
Never want to leave you, now I'm alone
All alone, all alone…
I thought that we could win the world on our own
You and I hand and hand to the throne
Now you have her dancing all around you
Coiling like a waiting snake
Then you're gone
I want to give, I want to love, I want to
Feel the way you made her feel
With your song
All alone, all alone…
06 Give-Why-I
Give, why, I…
Again, why, I…
I won't let you walk on by
I will never be denied
You're gonna feel me, you're gonna feel me
Right before you look around
I find your flesh, I'll take a pound
You're gonna feel me, you're gonna feel me
I can whisper to a shout
Hear my voice without a doubt
Do you believe me, do you believe me?
Sister once and mother twice
I will avenge her sacrifice
You're gonna see me, you better see me
07 Giddy Up
Giddy, you gonna get me up?
Giddy, giddy, giddy up!
08 My, My, My
Well, I don't go on
Unless there's a song
A rhythm, pulsing and brave
Enter this lair
Lover beware
Yours is the soul to be saved
My, my, my, my, my…
Don't look away
I, I, I, I, I…
Want you to stay
The taste of this song
The heat of my tongue
Holding, breathing you close
Feel as my fangs
Sink into your veins
Rapture, one holy dose
My, my, my, my, my…
Don't look away
Sigh, sigh, sigh, sigh, sigh…
Feel my hips sway
09 You're My Flame
I might be, I can see
My only need is by your side
And hear your voice, I have no choice
I lose myself, I come undone
I can't handle this
My thoughts are scandalous with
All the things I want to do to you
You're my candle, you're my flame
I would go, I would go
To anywhere you want to be
I would swim, across a thousand miles of sea
Just to hear you sigh
I would come, I will come
Anytime you call my name
I will play all of your little silly games
Just to see your eyes
I can't handle this
I'm reeling full of lust, and
All the things I want to do to you
You're my candle, you're my flame
10 Ten Beats at a Time
Here we are, each living little lives
All alone, in deception and disguise
We all have stories
God knows I got mine
We sing it all in verse and
Line by line
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
Words that sing, and words that rhyme
Tell my tale ten beats at a time
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
Make those words sound sublime
Tell your tale ten beats at a time
There you go
Audition drama queen
Oh, recognize it's
It's better to be heard than seen
We all have stories
God knows I got mine
We sing it all in verse and
Line by line
11 Bliss
Oh, what you want, is what you need
Come little boy, down on your knees
Soon you'll really know when we're alone what it means to hold me
With the touch of my lips, the wet of my kiss, my hips, then you will feel… bliss
I'm what you want, I'm what you need
My precious sweet, tell me your dreams
Soon you'll really know when we're alone what it means to own me
With the touch of my lips, the wet of my kiss, my hips, slowly reveal… bliss
You're what I want, you're what I need
Come hither now, give it to me
Now you really know, your mind is blown your body moist and reeling
With the touch of my lips, the wet of my kiss, my hips, can you feel it?
Climbing to the top of ecstasy, the sky, stars exploding
Fall down through the wind, into my skin, until there is only… bliss
12 What You'll Get
You took what was never yours in the fire
Look at the consequences they're dire
What you want is what I want
What you'll get is what is left when I'm done
Run with abandon into the fire
Never forget your king, your sire
What you want is what I want
What you'll get is what is left when I'm done
Passion and desire both are a dying flower
Love is not worth the want, it's power
13 Why I Breathe
Don't think once, don't go twice
Don't leave here without goodbyes
All I want is locked away again
Now I go, now you know
I love you, oh I love you
What I give, why I live
The heart on my sleeve, (it's) how I breathe
In your eyes, tiny lies
Never lasting, lullabies
Now I run, but might see you again, love
Won't you please still believe
I love you, I love you
I concede, full retreat
I can't go on, I can't breathe
Sing what's true, know that you
Held my soul within your heart
All is gone, I'm alone again
— Act 2 —
01 Fortune's Fool
I've nowhere to run or hide
Pulled underneath the tide
Oh, am I destined to survive?
An epic tale, a telling of my time
We all have stories, God knows I got mine
Oh, I am fortune's fool
Stammering on the stool
But I'll come back to the fight
I've rose before, left ashes at my feet
Ascend to my redemption now you'll see
02 Forgiven
Let it go, let it all be forgiven
Nothing to lose or gain
Taking back o'r the reigns
Oh, if the fates could have their way
They'll send me sprawling, falling 'til I fail
You'll hear me scream out loud my banshee wail
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
Let it go, let it all be forgiven
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
Let it go, let it all be forgiven
If I could love again
Go back to the start, begin
No, but I see where this will end
It's counting slowly, growing like disease
And the sands are flowing, counting down on me
03 You Don't Ever See Me
You don't ever see me, clearly
I don't ever hear you trying
I keep finding
It's meant to be, 'cause I won't believe me
Let it all be forgiven, let it go
Let it all be forgiven, let it be
04 She's My Candle
Hold my honor with
All the love in your heart
Can't you see I can't stay anymore?
She's my candle, she's my flame
Tie me to the pyre
Set my life on fire, now
I can feel it burning in my soul
She's my candle, she's my flame
05 Every Moment Matters
Go on 'til the light arrives
Talk around in circles all night
And I feel the morning, bittersweet relief
All these years and days and hours and minutes end in tears
Every moment matters until it doesn't,
and now we're here
Forward as the light brigade
Gonna storm the castle I made
And I flee the tower, ivory in my wake
I won't be a prisoner of this moment
I will endure
Every moment matters
Distillation makes them pure
Go on end the night with fire
Fill my empty heart with desire
Soaring upward I'm a Phoenix too
Moments become minutes, days and decades, it's how we live
But I'll decide what matters, what I'm taking, what I give
06 When I'm Done
Pleading, beseeching, your desert cry
The question is not who lives but who I say dies
What you want is what I want
What you'll get is what is left
When I'm done
07 Pretending is Ending
You rip and you ravage with one final blow
I'm bleeding out, I'm a hemorrhaging soul
I'm withering, wasting, drifting away like dust
I'm floating
Molecules, particles, atoms and ooze
Primordial energy flowing to you
Take me, assimilate, pull me within
Just don't walk away
Hey, no, I don't understand
And I can't fight back anymore
Pretending is ending, find out what is true
And it's not you
Reason and treason and seasons will pass
Find a true north, of my compass I ask
Will you guide me, ignite me and take me away
From this total betrayal?
Anger and heartache and loss become one
Scavenge my flesh peck away at my bones
I'm hollow and empty adrift in the gloom
Away I'm sailing
Hey, no I don't understand
Cuz I can't fight back anymore
Pretending, and it's ending
I found out what is true
And no, it's not you
08 Will My Heart Go On?
I once believed to be awake
Meant to lead with love
Young, naive a babe
Now my heart grows old
All that I've seen and heard and felt
Turns away from love
Old, tired and broken
Now my heart grows cold
Hear my final song
Will my heart go on?
Deep in my bile the illness hides
A wound will be my cure
Exorcize the demon
And my heart grows bold
Run into death like a lover's bed
A final bridal rite
Consummate the love we had
As my heart stops cold
Oh… and love's blade is long
Oh… and its sheath is my song
Mourning doves cry, serpents hiss
As lovers end their song
Now on thy lips, my final kiss
Will our hearts go on?
09 Take My Soul
Now I finish this
It is coming to an end
I won't replenish this
You and I are for the dark
I am still your queen
After your parade and your charade is done
I'm still immortal
I don't wanna be, I will never be a pawn
A piece upon your board
I am still your queen
Take my soul, save my soul
Take my soul, save my soul
I am fire
I am Isis, goddess
Now I must go, leave you
Save my soul
10 The Fates Have Their Way
— Instrumental —
VIDEO EXCERPTS: 2022 PREMIERE

Antony completely falls into the culture of the club. He returns to performing with his trusted manager Enobarbus and his backup dancer Eros.

Cleopatra is distraught, and feels the walls quickly closing in. Never one to miss a dramatic turn, she and her girls perform one final snake-charming dance, then place deadly asps on their throats to take their lives.

Having received Charmian's notice that Cleopatra has died, Antony is devastated. He implores Eros to kill him. Out of honor, Eros refuses and stabs himself instead. Antony then takes his own life, and Enobarbus delivers him to Cleopatra's chambers where he dies in her arms.

Antony tells Octavia that he is leaving her for Cleopatra. Octavia vows to persevere with grace and dignity, but then begins to sink into madness.

Cleopatra learns of Caesar’s true intentions – he does not intend to embrace her and her music, but instead, to take control of Club Isis. Refusing to be humiliated by Caesar, she implores Charmian and Iras to spread the word that she has taken her life.
2026 CAST & CREATIVES

Thomas James Mason
Cleopatra

Abigail Lessaris
Octavia

Isaac Jones
Marc Antony

Olivia Patton
Caesar Octavian

Audrey Springer
Charmian

Vivien Mickels
Iras

Sophie Jones
Enobarbus

Nathalie Boyle
Eros

Josie Moody
Lamprius

Gregory Glade Hancock
Choreography, Costume Design, Direction

Cory Gabel
Original Music and Story Adaptation
— Coming This October —
SALEM
A new dance theatre work from Cory Gabel and Gregory Hancock. October 2026.




