The Smile In Your Face

DEA
[Spoken] Tell me what you see

GRINPAYNE
[Spoken] A baby. You. The snow. Her poor frozen face and the ice in her blood-red hair

DEA
Blood-red hair? And did Ursus see her?

GRINPAYNE
No

DEA
Don’t you see? The family Ursus lost that night… his wife was my mother. The child was me. It was me and my mother he was trying to get to

[Sung]
The story of our past is darker than we ever dreamed
And now I see the agonies you’ve suffered were for me
Yes, the smile in your face was cut to give me a home
A family, by my father
And the hole in your heart was burned to give you a home
A family, by our father

My foolish heart thought stories of darkness
Would show us both the truth
Of our forgotten selves
But it turns out I was blind to all
I’m the secret of your pain
And the source of all your buried fears is here
Right here
I’m here

GRINPAYNE
Oh, Dea, my love, it’s the fire in your heart
That shone bright in the darkest of nights
You always said pain would make us strong
You were right, Dea, you were right

And now that I can see my pain
And know the hidden face of it
I’m grasping what my mother and my father tried to say to me
As they stood with their stools beneath a man with the nooses round their necks
The thing they were fighting for was strength to look into the eyes
Of someone who is maiming you
And see that they’re the same as you

And in your burning heart
Dea, you have known that from the start

And when I look at the man who cut my face
I see myself

And when I look in the eyes of the woman I love
I see myself there too

GRINPAYNE & DEA
Your kiss of life has opened my eyes
The place where my heart breaks you have mended
Your gift of love has given me life
My sorrow and heartache now are ended

COMPANY
Then you realise that you are him and he is you
And then you see that all the people round you feel that too

ANGELICA
[Spoken] Let us intone a new royal motto. The motto of the house of Trelaw

COMPANY
[Sung]
From each according to ability
To each according to need