- Victor Van Dort: [alone in the forest, practicing his vows] With this hand I will lift your sorrows. Your cup will never empty, for I will be your wine. - Ah, Mrs. Everglot. You look ravishing this evening. What's that, Mr. Everglot, call you "Dad"? If you insist, Sir. - With this candle, I will light your way in darkness. With this ring, I ask you to be mine.
- [He places the ring on what he thinks is a root. As he turns away, the root shoots out, grabs Victor's arm and almost pulls him into the ground. Victor pulls himself free and finds a detatched skeletal hand gripping his arm. He watches as the ground gives way and an unearthly female figure, wearing a dishevelled wedding dress, rises from beneath the tree. She pulls back her veil]
- The Corpse Bride: I do.
- The Corpse Bride: I was a bride. My dreams were taken from me. But now - now I've stolen them from someone else. I love you, Victor, but you are not mine.
- Bonejangles: Hit it, boys. Hey! Give me a listen, you corpses of cheer,/Least those of you who still got an ear./I'll tell you a story make a skeleton cry/Of our own jubiliciously lovely corpse bride!
- [the camera zooms in on Emily, who smiles wistfully]
- Bone Boys: Die, die, we all pass away/But don't wear a frown 'cause it's really okay/And you might try and hide/And you might try and pray/But we all end up the remains of the day/Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah...
- Bonejangles: Well, our girl was a beauty known for miles around/When a mysterious stranger came into town./He was plenty good-lookin', but down on his cash./And our poor little baby, she fell hard and fast
- [as he sings this, he dips the Corpse Bride]
- Bonejangles: When her daddy said no, she just couldn't cope/So our lovers came up with a plan to elope!
- Bone Boys: Die, die, we all pass away/But don't wear a frown 'cause it's really okay/And you might try and hide/And you might try and pray/But we all end up the remains of the day/Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah...
- Bonejangles: [after instrumental] That's right. Okay. Oh, yeah. Come on, boys, pick it up. Yeah. Like it. Okay, Chancy, take it. Yeah. Yeah! That's nice. Yeah. So they conjured up a plan to meet late at night./They told not a soul, kept the whole thing tight./Now her mother's wedding dress fit like a glove./You don't need much when you're really in love./Except for a few things, or so I'm told,/Like the family jewls and a sachel of gold./Then next to the graveyard by the old oak tree,/On a dark foggy night at a quarter to three,/She was ready to go, but where was he?
- Short Dead Cook: And then?
- Bonejangles: She waited.
- Short Dead Cook, Mrs. Plum: And then?
- Bonejangles: There in the shadows, was it her man?
- Short Dead Cook, Mrs. Plum, Tall Dead Cook: And then?
- Bonejangles: Her little heart beat so loud!
- Short Dead Cook, Mrs. Plum, Tall Dead Cook, Paul The Head Waiter: And then?
- Bonejangles: And then, baby, everything went black./Now when she opened her eyes she was dead as dust./Her jewels were missin' and her heart was bust./So she made a vow lyin' under that tree/That she'd wait for her true love to come set her free./Always waiting for someone to ask for her hand./Then out of the blue comes this groovy young man/Who vows forever to be by her side./And that's the story of our own corpse bride!
- Bone Boys: Die, die, we all pass away/But don't wear a frown 'cause it's really okay/And you might try and hide/And you might try and pray/But we all end up the remains of the day/Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- The Corpse Bride: I've spent so long in the darkness, I'd almost forgotten how beautiful the moonlight is.
- [the Corpse Bride recognizes Lord Barkis]
- The Corpse Bride: You!
- Barkis Bittern: Emily?
- [Lord Barkis and Emily are shocked to see each other]
- The Corpse Bride: You!
- Barkis Bittern: But, but I left you.
- The Corpse Bride: For dead!
- [last lines]
- Victor Van Dort: Wait. I made a promise.
- The Corpse Bride: You kept your promise. You set me free. Now I can do the same for you.
- The Corpse Bride: Get out!
- Barkis Bittern: Oh, I'm leaving.
- [evil laugh]
- Barkis Bittern: [picking up the wine goblet] But first! A toast, to Emily. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride! Tell me, my dear, can a heart still break once it's stopped beating? Hm?
- [the little boy walks away from his frightened family toward one of the skeletons; skeleton grabs the boy, and...]
- Solemn Village Boy: Grandpa?
- Victoria Everglot: Hildegard, what if Victor and I don't like each other?
- Maudeline Everglot: Hmpf! As if that has anything to do with marriage. Do you suppose your father and I "like" each other?
- Victoria Everglot: Surely you must, a little.
- Maudeline Everglot, Finnis Everglot: Of course not!
- Old Woman: [hitting skeleton with her walker] Bounder!
- Alfred the Skeleton: Sweetie pie!
- Old Woman: Monster!
- [hits him again]
- Alfred the Skeleton: Buttercup.
- Old Woman: Cad.
- Alfred the Skeleton: GERTRUDE!
- Old Woman: [adjusts her glasses] Alfred? Oh! You've been dead for fifteen years!
- Alfred the Skeleton: [grabs old woman] Frankly, my dear,
- [dips old woman]
- Alfred the Skeleton: I don't give a damn!
- [kisses her]
- Victor Van Dort: [trying to practice his vows] With this hand, I will cup your...
- [unconsciously holds hands before his chest in a suggestive manner, and is then horrified]
- Victor Van Dort: Oh goodness, no!
- Maggot: [singing] What does that wispy little brat have that you don't have double?
- Black Widow Spider: [singing] She can't hold a candle to the beauty of your smile!
- The Corpse Bride: How about a pulse?
- Maggot: Overrated by a mile!
- Maggot, Black Widow Spider: [singing] Overvalued! Overblown! If he only knew the you that we know!
- Black Widow Spider: [singing] And that silly little creature isn't wearing his ring.
- Maggot: [singing] And she doesn't play piano,
- Maggot, Black Widow Spider: [singing] Or dance, or sing. No she doesn't compare!
- The Corpse Bride: But she still breaths air...
- Maggot, Black Widow Spider: Who cares?
- Maggot: Unimportant!
- Maggot, Black Widow Spider: [singing] Overrated! Overblown! If only he could see how special you can be; if he only knew the you that we know.
- The Corpse Bride: [singing] If I touch a burning candle, I can feel no pain. If you cut me with a knife, it's still the same. And I know her heart is beating, and I know that I am dead; yet the pain here that I feel, try and tell me it's not real, and it seems that I still have a tear to shed.
- Maggot: [singing] The sole redeeming feature from that little creature is that she's alive.
- Black Widow Spider: Overrated!
- Maggot: Overblown!
- Black Widow Spider: [singing] Everybody knows that's just a temporary state, which is cured very quickly when we meet our fate.
- Maggot: Who cares?
- Black Widow Spider: Unimportant!
- Maggot, Black Widow Spider: [singing] Overrated! Overblown! If only he could see how special you can be; if he only knew the you that we know.
- The Corpse Bride: If I touch a burning candle, I can feel no pain. In the ice or in the sun, it's all the same. Yet I feel my heart is aching; thou it doesn't beat, it's breaking; and the pain here that I feel, try and tell me it's not real. I know that I am dead; yet it seems that I still have some tears to shed.
- Victor Van Dort: I want some questions! Now!
- General Bonesapart: Answers... I think you mean answers.
- Victor Van Dort: Thank you, yes, answers. I need answers.
- The Corpse Bride: We need to go up. Upstairs? To visit the land of the living.
- Elder Gutknecht: Land of the living? Oh, my dear.
- The Corpse Bride: Please, Elder Gutknecht.
- Elder Gutknecht: Now, why go up there when people are dying to get down here?
- Victor Van Dort: Sir, I beg you to help. It means so much to me... us.
- Elder Gutknecht: I don't know. It's just not natural.
- The Corpse Bride: Please, Elder Gutknecht. Surely there must be something you can do.
- Elder Gutknecht: Let me see what I can do.
- Pastor Galswells: [holding the dead off] Begone, ye demons from Hell! Back to the void from whence you came! You shall not enter here! Back... back... back.
- Skeleton: Keep it down, we're in a church!
- The Corpse Bride: [about Victor's dead dog, Scraps] What a cutie.
- Victor Van Dort: You should have seen him with fur.
- Black Widow Spider: Married, huh? I'm a widow.
- [Victor runs away]
- Black Widow Spider: Oh, how rude! He went that way!
- Finnis Everglot: [as corpses run amuck] If my grandfather Everglot could see this, he'd be turning in his grave.
- Grandfather Everglot: Finis.
- [next to a portrait of himself in life]
- Grandfather Everglot: Where do you keep the spirits?
- [shakes wine glass]
- Finnis Everglot, Maudeline: AAAAAAAHHHH!
- Maggot: Let me at him! Let me at him! Don't hold me back!
- Elder Gutknecht: [holding crowd back] Wait! We must abide by their rules! We are amongst the living.
- Barkis Bittern: Well said.
- [drinks potion]
- Maggot: [after Lord Barkis drinks potion] Not anymore!
- Elder Gutknecht: Yep. You're right. He's all yours.
- [Bonejangles creeps up behind Finnis; his eye falls into Finnis' bowl]
- Finnis Everglot: There's an eye in me soup.
- The Corpse Bride: [after her hand escapes her arm and dances up Victor's arm] Pardon my enthusiasm.
- Victor Van Dort: [snapping her hand into place] I like your enthusiasm.
- Victor Van Dort: What's going on here? Where am I? Who are you?
- The Corpse Bride: Well, that's kind of a long story.
- Bonejangles: What a story it is. A tragic tale of romance, passion and murder most foul.
- Victor Van Dort: We're moving this wedding party upstairs.
- Dead Woman: Upstairs? I didn't know we had an upstairs.
- Skeleton boy: Sounds creepy!
- Skeleton Girl: Let's go!
- [Victor has snuck away from the Corpse Bride to find Victoria and listens to the arguing Everglots]
- Finnis Everglot: If ever I see that Van Dort boy, I'll strangle him with my bare hands!
- Maudeline Everglot: Your hands are too fat, and his neck is too thin. You'll have to use a rope.
- Emil: Lord and Lady Everglot, Mr. and Mrs. Van Dort.
- William Van Dort: [to Maudeline] Why... you must be Miss Victoria. Yes, I must say you don't look a day over twenty. No. Oh, yes.
- Elder Gutknecht: [officiating over the wedding ceremony of Victor and Emily] Dearly beloved... and departed...
- Maudeline Everglot: [to Victoria] Get those corsets laced properly! I can hear you speak without gasping.
- Victor Van Dort: Do forgive me.
- Victoria Everglot: You play beautifully.
- Victor Van Dort: I-I-I do apologise, Miss Everglot. How rude of me to... Well... Excuse me.
- Victoria Everglot: Mother won't let me near the piano. Music is improper for a young lady. "Too passionate", she says.
- Victor Van Dort: If I may ask, Miss Everglot... where is your chaperone?
- Victoria Everglot: Perhaps, in... in view of the circumstances... you could call me Victoria.
- Victor Van Dort: Yes, of course. Well... Victoria...
- Victoria Everglot: Yes, Victor...
- The Corpse Bride: [meeting Victoria] Darling, I just wanted to meet... Darling, who's this?
- Victoria Everglot: Who is she?
- The Corpse Bride: I'm his wife.
- [She proudly holds out her hand with the ring on it]
- Victoria Everglot: Victor?
- Victor Van Dort: Victoria, wait. You don't understand. She's dead. Look!
- The Corpse Bride: [about Victor, showing the wedding ring on her fingerbones] He's not my boyfriend, he's my husband.
- [Victor flees the Corpse Bride in panic, finally he makes it out of the forest and begins to relieve]
- The Corpse Bride: [cornering him] You may kiss the bride.
- Nell Van Dort: [singing] It's a beautiful day!
- William Van Dort: [singing] It's a rather nice day.
- Nell Van Dort: [singing] A day for a glorious wedding!
- William Van Dort: A rehearsal, my dear, to be perfectly clear.
- Nell Van Dort: A rehearsal for a glorious wedding!
- William Van Dort: Assuming nothing happens that we don't really know.
- Nell Van Dort: That nothing unexpected interferes with the show.
- Nell Van Dort, William Van Dort: [singing] And that's why everything, every last little thing, every single tiny microscopic little thing must go...
- Nell Van Dort: [singing] According to plan!
- William Van Dort: Our son will be married!
- Nell Van Dort: [singing] According to plan!
- William Van Dort: And our family carried,
- Nell Van Dort, William Van Dort: [singing] Elevated to the heights of society!
- Nell Van Dort: To the costumed balls!
- William Van Dort: In the hallowed halls!
- Nell Van Dort: Rubbing elbows with the finest!
- William Van Dort: And having crumpets with Her Highness!
- Nell Van Dort, William Van Dort: [singing] We'll be there! We'll be seen! Having tea with the queen! We'll forget everything... that we've ever ever been!
- The Corpse Bride: Maybe perhaps he does belong with her.
- [sarcastic tone]
- The Corpse Bride: Little Miss Living, with her rosy cheeks and beating heart.
- Victor Van Dort: But I don't even know your name.
- Maggot: [from inside the Corpse Bride's head] Well, that's a great way to start a marriage.
- The Corpse Bride: [grasps head and hisses] Sshh! Shut up!
- [smiles at Victor]
- The Corpse Bride: It's Emily.
- Barkis Bittern: [disrupting the wedding] Oh, how touching. I always cry at weddings. Finally, our two young lovers are together at last. Surely now they can live happily ever after? But you forget...
- Barkis Bittern: [snatches Victoria] She's still my wife! And I'm not leaving here empty-handed!
- Victoria Everglot: Since I was a child, I've dreamt of my wedding day. I always hoped to find someone I was deeply in love with. Someone to spend the rest of my life with. Silly, isn't it?
- Victor Van Dort: Yes, silly. No. No, not at all, no.
- Victoria Everglot: [knocks over a vase]
- Victor Van Dort: Oh, oh, dear. I'm sorry.
- Victor: Look, I am terribly sorry about what's happened to you and I would like to help. But I really need to get home.
- The Corpse Bride: This is your home now.
- Victor Van Dort: Tomorrow, Victoria, we are to be...
- [nervously twists his tie]
- Victor Van Dort: Mmmm... mmmm... mmmm...
- Victoria Everglot: [small giggle] ... married.
- Victor Van Dort: Yes, married.
- Barkis Bittern: Would you care to repeat tonight's headline for us?
- Town Crier: [shouting so loud that the teacups rattle] HEAR YE, HEAR YE! VICTOR VAN DORT SEEN THIS NIGHT ON THE BRIDGE IN THE ARMS OF A MYSTERY WOMAN! THE DARK-HAIRED TEMPTRESS AND MASTER VAN DORT SLIPPED AWAY INTO THE NIGHT!
- [lowers voice]
- Town Crier: And now the weather. Scattered showers...
- Barkis Bittern: Enough! That will be all.
- Elder Gutknecht: Just remember, when you want to come back, say "Hopscotch."
- The Corpse Bride: Hopscotch?
- Elder Gutknecht: That's it.
- Maudeline Everglot: [speaking] Marriage is a partnership, a little tit for tat; you'd think a lifetime watching us
- [singing]
- Maudeline Everglot: might have taught her that, might have taught her that.
- Finnis Everglot: Everything must be perfect.
- Maudeline Everglot: Everything must be perfect.
- Maudeline Everglot, Finnis Everglot: Everything must be perfect, perfect!
- Maudeline Everglot, Finnis Everglot, Nell Van Dort, William Van Dort: That's why everything/every last everything/every single tiny microscopic little thing must go... According to plan!