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  • He did a better job on this, than I expected him to. Closer to Gerad Butler's version in the film. Better than than Archuleta who sounded like Disney produced it and seemed to hard to reinvent it..I do NOT follow the AI shows because too many people focus on the hotness of the person and not the actual voice quality.

  • This is amazing!! Omg! PERFECT AND BEAUTIFUL! <3

  • 10 facts about you: 1 You're reading my comment 2. You're realizing that's a stupid fact 4. You didn't notice I skipped three 5. You're checking now 6. You're smiling 7. You're still reading my comment 9. You didn't realize I skipped eight 10. You're checking again and smiling about how you fell for it again. 11 You are enjoying this 12. You didn't realize there's only supposed to be ten facts Copy and paste this to ONE video & tomorrow will be the best day of your life(:

  • I was afraid to press play knowing his voice..but I love this.

  • This is good, but it ranks behind the original recording of the crawford version(not on the movie) and the movie version done by Butler because it's not as dark as it should be when done by Cook, and it doesn't go anywhere/ends too early. Just my opinion though!

  • DAAAAAYYYY UMMM!

  • I heard many versions on youtube and this one is the best .

  • I just dot like how it goes from fast to slow.

    I really like his voice though

  • This is lovely 8D

  • What I wouldnt give to see him play the Phantom. Wow!

  • One Word, (Splendid)!

  • If You think this is good then yu should search - Music of the night (kevin wong) .... He is soo good :D

  • @laurenblahblah8 imo kevin wong has a clear voice that doesn't match the character of the phantom.

    but he has a very nice voice..

  • this song gives me the chills everytime i hear it i love his voice! he puts so much feeling into it!!!!! Better than the 2004 version love you david!!!!!

  • never knew an alterative rocker could sing so 'lovely' It s haunting. that he can do it. thats when u know u have the ulimate gift ( u are of a particular genre - yet u can sing almost anything ... versatility. The only other person who can do this well (I think) is country singer Keith Urban. Damn!!!! I want to be Christine!!!!!!!!!!!!! :( :( :(

  • does anyone know where I can download this??????

  • @thathagangirl Get Realplayer & download it here.

  • does anyone know where I can download this??????

  • Smoking HOt Rock Star David Cook showing his amazing versatility! He sings this straight into the hearts of listeners.... Just beautiful!!

  • absolutely perfect , fell head over heels with his voice at this point , he had me won over with always be my baby , he rocks. x

  • It was perfect!!!

  • i'm a huge archie and phantom of the opera fan but david cook did this way better than the phantom in the 2004 movie lol

  • LOOOOOOVE!!!!!!!!!!!! :DDDD

  • First time this song has worked without the girl present. Really like it.

  • wow, I just melted...

  • excellent rendition!!! you are really an idol david.....

  • i love this song !

  • I like the style he sings it with, but this is no comparison to the likes of past phantoms... To be honest, there isn't enough passion and depth in it, and this version is way to fast. I don't think he feels the music and the words he's singing.

  • Live version was better.

  • David should be the next Phantom!!! <3

  • rather beautiful! but lacking a bit of the intensity and emotion that professional opera singers possess

  • I'm just glad my name's Christine. :)

  • this is the most most wow, cant explain it, better version of the music of the night ever, beutifull =)

  • i love this man

  • wheew! i love his version! so much! thanks for posting!

  • david cook is awesome! where can i get a copy of david cook and david archuleta's idol performances?

  • This made me cry...again! Beautiful version (sigh). Must have been amazing seeing this live on tour. What this man does to my soul...I cannot put into words...

  • love Phantom of the opera and this song and DAVID COOK!!!!! XD

  • damn...

  • i love his version

  • i knew he was the next american idol from his first audition... his voice gives my chills!

  • I don't like the long high notes at the end; well almost the end, but that was beautiful! Great job Mr. Cook :) One of my favorites from you.

  • Cook had a two-year theatre scholarship in college but he knew that it wasn't "him" so he gave it up. Thank God, we would have missed our rocker.

  • There's something unique about this version. It isn't trying too hard. I really like it! I did something different with this song as well! I was on American Idol this past season in the top 36, and I'm also from Missouri like Mr. Cook! Click my name to hear my version of this song!

  • weird to hear him sing beautifully, when he's usually powerful and emotional.. you guys kow his style.. but fucking fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck, this is amazing. :)

  • He has a wonderful voice!!!

  • He can be on broadway if he knows how to act XD

  • he was in a lot of plays in high school so he can probably act, too :)

  • this is my fave performance every and i love this play and movie and it took my breath away when i herd it the first time i voted for him 35 times that night i think that was the night i fellin love with david

  • this was my personal favorite performance he ever did on the show i dont like Micheal Jackson so i didnt enjoy what he did with Billie Jean like everyone else did.

  • I love his voice. It's beautiful but it's rocker and pop.

  • tht was the most beautiful thing i have ever heard!!!!! i love phantom of the opera and i was afraid tht davids version wouldnt be as good but O MY GOD!!! tht was completely gorgeous! it made me cry! if david was the phantom i wont to be christine just so he could sing tht to me. david i love u! ur are amazing!

  • @musicxmonster96 i would fight you to be christine lol i love this version!!!!!!!!!!

  • To sing this good ought to be against the law....LOL. David, you're as beautiful as this song inside and out. It was wonderful to meet you and the boyz.. Can't wait to see y'all again.

  • absolutely unbelievable, his voice is FANTASTIC!! His voice is so....ahhh. I was concerned he might butcher it, because many pop stars have a tendancy to do that, but his voice was perfect for this song and is deep and gorgeous- like the Phantom's. :D :D :D :D Loveeee!!

  • I "love" him and his voice. Listening to this video, I want to slap him... his voice and the way he sings this song... it hurts to the core. It's TOOOOOOOOO good. He has nailed it in such a way that... I rarely listen to his version... for me... it's too good. It takes my breathe away to hear him sing this song. I adore his version, I wish I could listen to it more often... just my experience... no defense..only a thank you to David Cook for singing and sharing his voice to this song.

  • very nice!!! you're always my idol

  • OMG i can't stop listening to it i love it ^_^

  • So very beautiful...absolutely loved his live performance of this!!

  • i love it its beautiful!!!!!!!!

  • Love him. I remember watching this performance last year. Me and my mom actually teared up lol

  • Same! We totally didn't expect it! he is amazing!

  • I fell off the couch because I was so surprised lol

  • i didnt like him much before

    but once i heard this song i loved him

    and i was soooooooo happy he won!

  • anyone know how to get this on itunes?

  • You can't anymore...the only have it available when the season is actually on. Now they have season 8's contestants on itunes. You can just convert it though. That's what I'm doing :)

  • how do u do that?

  • You are one of my favorite man singer!Honesty,Love,Hope,selfc­ontroll.I think you got those.I hope you will not change!

    Zsazsa from Hungary.

  • one word: GORGEOUS!!!

    and his voice is great too ;-)

  • i love the phantom of the opera and david, his voice is so damn cool

  • just download youtube downloader and you can download this video and turn it into a MP3 file

  • American Idol is just not the same without David Cook! He has changed the level of talent needed for the show, forever!

  • You said it perfectly!

  • How can you resist when he sings touch me, trust me in that sexy low voice that only David can do.

  • I love this boy's voice so much !! Of course his training was in musical theatre so it comes as no surprise that he knows what to do with this song , it's the variety of genres he can pull off that shows what a true musician he really is . Idol will struggle to recapture the kind of talent this season had.

  • David Cook did an amazing version of this - the only thing I didn't like about this was the beginning. I wish he would have made the vowels a little longer. Other than that, excellent!

  • The most amazing piece of music ever wrote. aw inspiring. It grabs you by the heart strings. I have heard it a million times a and it still gives me goose bumps . Absolutely gorgeous song !!!!

  • oh my gosh. He is amazing. I'd pay to see him on Broadway!

  • dude 2:51 is amazing. i wish i could sing like that.

  • is there an mp3 version of this? definitely worth having.

  • oh lord, this cover of the song is beautiful...

  • This was my favorite song by him during the whole thing. =] go David!!

  • amazing!

  • this is awesome

  • He's a beautiful man- his voice is unexplainably beautiful and wonderful, I love it! I love him, this may be odd, but I would die for him- fore a voice like this should live on

  • Holy cow. He can sing!! He's so talented...can sing so many genres.

    Go David!

  • dude.... i like love this song with all my heart. een though the one by butler is better, i dont think david did that bad:)

    my favorite part of the whole song is at 1:51 that note always makes me smile. i always cry for this song.... i think its so beautiful...

  • He sounds better. o.o

  • Amazing!

  • I really like his voice on this..I only wish that he used a darker tone and sounded more evil..He sounds too nice and pleasant

  • Gerard Butler's version is WAY better!

  • there can be no right way of music... it's however you want a song to be.... that's what music is about...! IT'S about expressing yourself so this is the way he wanted it to sound!!!!

  • Song is beautiful

  • his voice fits this song very well!

  • this amazing i love it :)

    now i want to watch Phantom of the Opera

  • Ik i actually feel the same way well i luv david cook so umm ya lol

  • I wasn't a fan of him until this song. I'm such a theatre nerd. He really impressed the shit out of me lol. Go DC

  • I am absolutely in love with him. When he sings this song, I am just enthralled into it. It's almost haunting. I love it! :)

  • amazing voice, and an easy flowing feel of raw emotion!

  • oh my god. i think am in love

  • i just simply adore everything about him.

    :]

  • OMG..... Is there anything he CANT sing?

  • I'd heard the "big voices" sing this song a hundred times, but David was the first singer to sing it so that I listened to each word, and FELT every moment. I had never known it could be such an erotic song. Go DC!!!

  • beautiful song orgiginally

    and he doesn't tarnish it a bit

    love this <3

  • i really liked this song in the movie. the phantom really sang it well. but when i heard David Cook sing it, i was like WOW. i didn't think someone could sing THAT good. This was like the best out of the top 6. he didn't ruin the song, like David Archueleta did. (sorry, but Archie's was too pop-y.)

  • I disagree. I like this one, but Archuleta hit it out of the park, he put a whole different twist on Think of me, this is too much like the original, but vocally he did very well.

  • Lisa2068,

    Actually, that was kinda the point. Weeks before he did this song, he had sung covers of a cover (Billie Jean, for example), or he used his own arrangement (like in Always Be My Baby).

    It was his intention to sing this straight, without any changes, as he thought it was fine the way it was and he saw no reason to do anything else to it. Also, he wanted to prove that he COULD sing a song of this nature.

    Personally, I think he's proven that he can sing just about anything.

  • Gaaahhhh.... this just makes me melt into the friggin chair, you guys. Especially the last minute or so. I mean, just-- wow. Another bullseye for the Cookie! :)

  • i like cook's voice, but I prefer archuleta... Cook sings this song very well. He could play the phantom amazingly well. I like his voice better than the real phantom! and I'm a huge Phantom phan!

  • Pretty good job David Cook! Sorry, but I like Michael Crawford's version better.

  • my fav part is 1:29-2:05

  • me too =]

    i loooove this song

  • David Cook your famous in Dubai. You sing excellent.

  • I love this... I think it was a challenging song for him to do, but he sounds wonderful. I wish I can download it... anyone know if this is possible anymore? someone already said earlier that it was on ITUNES until the finals.

  • He sounds so sexxxy!!!! when he sings this song 8) I love love love this version of the song da best :D

  • I don't like him in this one.

    It shows all his weaknesses.

    Very vulnerable but beautiful song.

  • david cook is real talent.he is the best idol.

  • You are amazing....what a voice! Awesome!

  • I absolutly think his voice is from an angel!!!

  • I love phantom!

    And I love David Cook!

    This is simply BRILLIANT! :)

  • He sang it the way it was written, beautiful, this guy has a bright future. He can do Broadway , movies and recording Cd's. Maybe without this show we would never have seen him, the music business is so competitive, he could have gotten lost in the mix.

  • Is it possible to put this up as a mp3 to download it, it's wonderful!

  • it was on itunes until the finals

  • I knew the night he sang this, there could be ohly one winner, COOK!!! He showed his range and capabilities as a singer

  • Cook is a rocker, but this is one of his best songs!

  • this was one of my favorite songs that he sang. the first time i listened to it, i got chillbumps. his voice is amazing!

  • Wow, he makes a pretty good Phantom voice!

  • i know

  • and a very handsome phantom as well =)

  • Where do you get studio versions?

  • i was actually to get them from limewire if i put in studio version of watever you need/want

  • yea u can get them from lime wire

  • dang, the first time i heard him sing this i absolutely hated it, i thought he killed it... I'm an enormous Gerry phan, hehe... but listening to it again, David's version is bloody fantastic!! SO glad he won!

  • Does anyone else remember Michael Crawford doing this in the original Phantom of the Opera? David you do great, as well as Michael and I never though anyone could ever do that.

  • go michael crawford!

  • This is so awesome like when it first started i thought it was the original and I was like RIP-OFF!!Even though i'm not paying anything...besides making my parents pay electricity bills!!But anyways he is so awesome LOVE HIM!!:)

  • the s0ng s0unds tragic...

    it makes me feel sad...

    DC R0cks!!!!!!!!

  • ...wow, He's almost sounds like Gerry in some parts...but Gerry sings this song more originally, this guy adds more of a...IDK...modern twist...Gerry's voice is more...IDK...just better. But I love this one two

  • Well he sings it more modern because that's whats required for them to do. Look at the other songs he's done . . . "Always Be My Baby," "Billy Jean" (which was one I actually like better the way he did it) . . . but it's because of his modern twist on songs he won. (And I'm personally glad he did.)

    He does sound like Gerry at some parts though. I heard that too :)

  • That note he hits at about 2 minutes in and holds... omg, shivers! I just got goosebumps! :)

  • it's not all that. really. it's not that hard to hit.

  • Eh, its that the fact that its hard to hit, but the way he hits it. He hits it strong and with enough control over the note that he has just the slightest vibrato, but not too much to it that it distracts.

  • Leukemia is the name for blood cancer.

    Let's all keep our fingers crossed for Lindsey Rose and all the other kids out there battling such horrific diseases!

  • i love this version! I've listened to it so much on my iPod that it is my most played song on my iTunes...ever, scary i know, but when i got it, i listened to it over and over again. i love cook's voice sooo much, he rocks!

  • Wow.

    What an inspiration he is.

  • Yes, her name is Lindsey Rose and its lukemia.

  • I'm more of DA fan, but I do think DC does a great job on this song. It shows off his voice more than the rock songs he usually does. I was pleasantly surprised at how well he sang this. He got my vote that night!

  • by the way oops i was saying that to HPISMYFUTUREHUSBAND :):) HEHE OOPS!! U ROCK DC DONT EVER CHANGE!!! And u see the orange baller band he wears? He wears that for a little girl who is fighting cancer like his brother her name is Lindsy Rosa:)

  • .... I never said david cook was horrible. I was always routing for him. maybe you're just totally ignorant (oh that's an understatement) and read my comment wrong because I don't ever remember going against david C, only David A. Oh yeah, and really, "look in the mirror" just really pierces my soul because I know that you know exactly what I look like! Wow, you're cool.

  • omg im so so so so sorry dude!!!! my bad!!! sorry !! it was another person im so so sorry!!! and glad ur a dc fan like me SORRY

  • No it's totally alright, i just didn't someone making false comments about me. And thanks for informing me about Lindsey Rose, i'm glad I got to know that information about him :]

  • hpismyfuturehusband never said anything bad about david cook.

    and are you serious about his bracelet? aww thats so sweet! now i want one. =]

  • hmm..skoro lepsí nez original..vyhral pravem:-)

  • hes so hott and sooo goodd at singing!

  • dont love the arrangement, but i <3 his voice.

  • uchoob00's ignorance amuses me.

    obviously he/she or both was a david arche-what's his face.

    LOL

  • compared to a broadway guy, this really wasn't all that.

  • OK THEN

  • listen, everyone, stop getting on uchoob00's case. He obviously is a pompus arrogant lowlife who has absoloutely nothing better to do than thrive off of annoying people for his own pleasure. So please, he is obviously not worth anyone's time because he is what we call "the scum of the earth." So, please, just leave the smug infintile jackass alone because obviously he just loves the attention he's getting.

  • i enjoyed this comment.

  • Thank you, I try. :]

  • ummm. look in the mirror!! sounds like ur either jelous or wanting attention.

  • this song made me realize how much i love david cook and how much i wanted him to win!!

    when he sang this song..

    it left a mark on my heart..

    he gave me the chills that time..

    my heart was beating rapidly for an unknown reason..

    go cook!

    ;D

  • not really a fan but, he sings great!

  • COOK ROCKS.