Neville Landless:

Sir I don't much like your tone,

That supercilious sneer you wear

True you wear a finer cut than mine

Ah, but a waistcoat worn can soon be torn

And faggots too till maggots feed on you



Rosa Budd:

Something in this speech seems ominous to me



Helena Landless:

Twin, don't over reach, pray promise this to me



Rev. Crisparkle:

Praise to Him divine, for this we should be glad



John Jasper:

Won't you try some wine?



All:

No good can come from bad!



Edwin Drood

Landless as you are and known

Your blood is hot, but less than pure

Less I'm sure you'd be

Your history would indicate the past

Of some half caste runs through your veins

your crudeness thus explains



Rosa Budd:

Something sends a chill like feet upon my grave



Helena Landless

Can my strength and will completely Neville save



Rev. Crisparkle:

Could these words they say bring harm upon the lad?



John Jasper:

Night must follow day



All:

No good can come from bad!



Neville and Drood:

Glances cut like blade through bone

With daggers drawn I glare at you

There at you who'd dare presume

To stare at whom I'd make my wife

And share my life

I'd see you dead before sweet Rosa wed!



Helena Landless:

Fate waits near

I feel it, I fear it

We are friends and yet

They'll not soon forget

Hearing Neville's therat

Every epithet



Rev. Crisparkle:

In younger days I hungered for another

Rosa'a mother!

After Rosa's birth, she left this earth

Now dust is all I'm worth



Rosa Budd:

So long a time

They've thought

That I'm a Dresden doll

Quite naive

But I can see these boys, this noise

More frightning than they might perceive.



All: sing their songs at same time



All:

With these new additions that have been revealed

Murderous admitions otherwise concealed



Neville and Drood:

Fie on you I curse, full warning you have had!



Helena and Rosa:

Bad must lead to worse!



All:

No good can come from bad

No good, no good can come from bad