In this song, Jekyll is using himself as the test subject because the Board of Governors had refused to let him use a patient from the asylum as a test subject. He had come up with a new formula to separate the duology of good and evil. This formula HJ7 is injected, instead of drunk like the book or...
[JEKYLL, spoken]
"September 6th. Three fifty-six a.m. I have started this alone, and I must finish it alone. I know that I must use myself as the subject of the experiment."
[singing]
I must be wise
I must try to analyze
Each change in me
Everything I see
How will it be?
Will I see the world
Through different eyes?
Like a warning light
Glimmering in red
Like crimson bloodshed
Shimmering in red
Beautiful and strange
See the colors change
Before my eyes...
See how they dance
And they sparkle
Like diamonds at night
Leading me out of the darkness
And into the light
[spoken]
"Three fifty-eight a.m. It is done. I have injected 5 centiliters of the newly fused formula. Salty. Bitter taste. Stings the gums. Warm in the gullet. Prickling heat spreading strongly through my lungs. A slight feeling of euphoria. Light-headedness. No noticeable behavioral differences." (chuckles lightly)
[singing]
Now the die is cast!
Nothing left to do
Time along can prove
My theories true
Show the world I-
[spoken]
"Dear God! What is this?
Something is happening -
I can't explain -
[ singing]
Something inside me -
A breathtaking pain -
Devours and consumes me -
And drives me insane...!"
*Screams in agony*
Suddenly -
Uncontrolled -
Something is
Taking hold!
Suddenly -
Agony -
Filling me!
Killing me!
Suddenly -
Out of breath!
What is this?
Is this death?
Suddenly -
Look at me! -
Can it be?
Who is this
Creature
That I see?
[HYDE, spoken]
"Four o'clock, and all is well. Unexpected development." Free!
First Transformation was written by Frank Wildhorn.
First Transformation was produced by Frank Wildhorn & Karl Richardson.
Frank Wildhorn released First Transformation on Sat Jul 15 1995.