The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (Czech: Filharmonici města Prahy)… Read Full Bio ↴The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (Czech: Filharmonici města Prahy) is a professional philharmonic symphony orchestra. It is predominantly composed of Czech and Slovak classical and jazz musicians. The orchestra started out, after World War II, in 1947, as the in-house full orchestra regularly playing music for film, television and animation productions at the world famous Barrandov Film Studios, in Prague, as well as the historic Krátký Film productions (meaning "short film," in Czech), and the former Czechoslovak Television.
At the time, it was somewhat smaller than today and it was called the Filmový symfonický orchestr (FISYO) (The Film Symphony Orchestra) or was sometimes known as the Film Symphony of Prague. Many wonderful international films were done by this orchestra in the early days. Recordings have been made for film production companies such as Paramount, Sony, Lucasfilm and many others in the Smecky Music Studios. David Lynch returned again in 1997 to record his Lost Highway, and yet again in 2001 to record Mulholland Drive.
Fully privatized after the Velvet Revolution, today, the musicians and supporting professionals continue to play and record music together (usually every day of the week) for major international films, television series, CDs/DVDs, video games, and even ring tones - both for the Czech Republic market and for clients & media productions around the world.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra Lyrics

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Double, double, toil and trouble
Fire burn and cauldron bubble
Double, double, toil and trouble
Something wicked this way comes!

Eye of newt and toe of frog
Wool of bat and tongue of dog
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting

Lizard's leg and owlet's wing

Double, double, toil and trouble
Fire burn and cauldron bubble
Double, double, toil and trouble
Fire burn and cauldron bubble

Eye of newt and toe of frog
Wool of bat and tongue of dog
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting
Lizard's leg and owlet's wing

Double, double, toil and trouble
Fire burn and cauldron bubble
Double, double, toil and trouble
Fire burn and cauldron bubble

Something wicked this way comes
Double, double
Trouble, trouble

Fire burn and cauldron bubble
Something wicked this way comes

Overall Meaning

These lyrics are from the scene in the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban movie where Harry, Ron, and Hermione are in Professor Snape's class and they are learning about potions. The class is brewing a potion called Polyjuice Potion, which requires some very unusual ingredients. The lyrics describe the process of creating the potion and the strange ingredients used in it. The repetition of "double, double, toil and trouble" is a nod to the famous witches' spell from Macbeth.

The line "Something wicked this way comes" is a reference to a line from William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, but in the context of the Harry Potter story, it foreshadows the arrival of the film's villain, Sirius Black.

Overall, the lyrics set a spooky, eerie mood in the movie and emphasize the magical, mystical nature of the world of Harry Potter.

Line by Line Meaning

Double, double, toil and trouble
We are working twice as hard and putting in extra effort

Fire burn and cauldron bubble
We are creating something dangerous and powerful

Something wicked this way comes!
Something dangerous and evil is approaching us

Eye of newt and toe of frog
We are using unusual and exotic ingredients in our creation

Wool of bat and tongue of dog
We are using strange and questionable materials in our creation

Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting
We are using dangerous and poisonous components in our creation

Lizard's leg and owlet's wing
We are adding unusual and creepy features to our creation