The Beast Within
The first and the last. The beginning and the end...

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information
Title: The Beast Within
Writers: Madonna and Lenny Kravitz
Producers: Lenny Kravitz and Andre Betts
Length of the album version: 6' 10''
Credits: ©1990 Miss Bessie Music/Skyfish Music/WB Music Corp./Webo Girl Pub. Co., Inc. adm. by WB Music Corp. ASCAP.
coments
The Beast Within Mix is the name of one of the Justify My Love versions we can find in the maxi single release. But this song is so different to Justify My Love that can be considered another new song. It was written and produced by the same people as Justify My Love, but the only thing that has in common with it is the chorus. The rest of the lyrics are completely different. The curiosity is where this lyric came from, because what Madonna makes here is to 'read aloud the words of the profecy': she just reads some lines from the Bible's book Revelation.
collector items
Justify My Love
Both the maxi single release of Justify My Love and the Japanese edition of the Rescue Me maxi single are the only official releases in which this song was included, as another version of Justify My Love.
This list of collectibles is not complete, it's just an orientative guide of the most important things.
lyric
The Beast Within Mix

(From Revelation 1:3)
Blessed is he who reads aloud the words of the prophecy
And blessed are those who hear
And who keep what is written therein
For the time is near

(From Revelation 1:7)
He is coming with the clouds
And every eye will see him
Everyone who pierced him
And all the tribes of the earth will wail on account of him

(From Revelation 2:1-4)
Those of you who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan
I know your works, I know your toil, and your patient endurance
And how you cannot hear evil men
But have tested those who call themselves apostles, but are not
And found them to be false
I know that you are enduring patiently and bearing out for my namesake
And you have not grown weary
But I have this against you
That you have abandoned the love you had

(from Revelation 2:9-10)
I know your tribulation and your poverty
And the slander of those who say that they are Jews, but they are not
They are a synagogue of Satan
Do not fear what you are about to suffer
Behold the devil is about to throw you into prison

Wanting, needing, waiting for you to justify my love
Hoping, praying for you to justify my love

(from Revelation 13:1-10)
And I saw a beast rising out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads
And a blasphemous name upon its head
And the beast that I saw was like a leopard
Its feet were like a bear's
And its mouth was like a lion's mouth
And to it the dragon gave his power, and his throne, and great authority
One of his heads had a mortal wound
But it seemed to have a mortal wound that was healed
And the whole earth followed the beast with wonder

Men worshipped the dragon for he had given his authority to the beast
And they worshipped the beast saying
"Who is like the beast and who can fight against the beast?"
And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words
And it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months

It opened its mouth to utter blasphemous words against God

It was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer
And authority was given it over every tribe
And a people and tongue and nation
And all who dwell on earth could worship it in vain
If anyone has an ear let him hear
If anyone is to be taken captive, into captivity he will go
If anyone who slays with the sword, with the sword

Wanting, needing, waiting for you to justify my love
Hoping

(from Revelation 21:1-8)
Then, I saw a new heaven and a new earth
And I heard a great voice from the throne saying:
"Behold the dwelling of God is with men
He will dwell with them, and they shall be his people
And God himself will be with them
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes
And death shall be no more
Neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore
For these things will have passed away

To the thirsty I will give water without price
From the fountain of the water of life
He who conquers shall have this heritage
And I will be his God and he shall be my son

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted
As for the murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolators, and all liars
Their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone."

(from Revelation 22:10-13)
And he said to me, he said to me:
"Do not seal up the words of the prophecy, for the time is near
Let the evildoers still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy
And the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy
Behold, I am coming soon
I am the alpha and the omega
The first and the last
The beginning and the end."

Amen

What are you gonna do?

official versions
1. Original Version (6:10)
live

The Beast Within Mix Live

This is not considered a Madonna performance, because this song was used as an interlude for making time to costume and stage changing. The Beast Within was included in The Girlie Show (1993), but although Madonna is not in the stage while the song, we can enjoy a great choreography of the dancers, showing as the neverending fight between good and evil, between love and hate.

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