Snuff Out the Light (Yzma's
Song)
Music by Sting and David Hartley
Lyrics
by Sting
When a woman acquires a certain age
And the
men who adored you no longer swoon
It pays to avoid the sunlit days
And
live by the light of the kindly moon
But the moon grows old just like us
all
And her beautiful years are done
So now she prays through endless
days
To take her revenge on the sun
When I was a girl at my daddy's
side
Papa, the royal mortician
Revealed to me in secret signs
The mark
of a magician
And Daddy was no dummy
Did outrageous things with a
mummy
And often the stiffs that he would shrive
Would look better dead
than they did alive
I studied well I learnt the trade
I thought my
looks would never fade
If I could find that recipe
To give eternal youth
to me
It was always my ambition
To use Papa's tuition
And gain some
small remission
From the vagaries of time
Every little ray of sunshine
robs me of my youth
Who to blame? Who the one? Who to curse?
You
know the only on to blame
Would be my enemy, the Sun
Snuff out the
light
Claim your right
To a world of darkness
Snuff out the
light
Neophytes
Of a world of darkness
Supai baby turn me
on
Every wrinkle soon be gone
I could squeeze myself with glee
The
promises you made to me
I've really stopped at nothing
Murder,
treachery, and lying
Whatever it takes to keep my looks
You really can't
blame a girl for trying
Snuff out the light
Claim your right
To a
world of darkness
Snuff out the light
Neophytes
Of a world of
darkness
Snuff out the light
Claim your right
To a world of
darkness
Snuff out the light
Here tonight
Apparitions of
eternal darkness
Spiraling in circles through the night
Creatures of
beguiling blackness
No more squinting in the light
Bats and owls and
coiled sea dragons
Crocodile and carrion beasts
Swirling in the growing
darkness
Join us in the coming feast
Spectre wraith and
apparition
Spirit demon phantom shade
Salamander serpents dog-faced
devils
Dance and watch the dying sunlight fade
EARTHA KITT
"Snuff Out The Light (Yzma's Song)"
Soundtrack
: The Emperor's New Groove