OUT THERE

(The Hunchback of Notre Dame)

F: FROLLO

Q: QUASIMODO

F: The world is cruel

The world is wicked

It's I alone whom you can

Trust in this whole city

I am your only friend

I who keep you, teach

You, feed you, dress you

I who look upon you without fear

How can I protect you, boy, unless you

Always stay in here

Away in here

Remember what I taught you, Quasimodo

You are deformed

Q: I am deformed

F: And you are ugly

Q: And I am ugly

F: And these are crimes

For which the world shows little pity

You do not comprehend

Q: You are my one defender

F: Out there they'll revile you

As a monster

Q: I am a monster

F: Out there they will hate

And scorn and jeer

Q: Only a monster

F: Why invite their calumny

And consternation?

Stay in here

Be faithful to me

Q: I'm faithful

F: Grateful to me

Q: I'm grateful

F: Do as I say obey

F: (C And (I'll) stay in here

.....OUT THERE (Solo)........

Q: Safe behind these windows

And these parapets of stone

Gazing at the people down below me

All my life I watch them

As I hide up here alone

Hungry for the histories they show me

All my life I memorize their faces

Knowing them as they will never know me

All my life I wonder how

It feels to pass a day

Not above them

But part of them and

Out there

Living in the sun

Give me one day

Out there

All I ask is one

To hold forever

Out there.

Where they all live unaware

What I'd give.

What I'd dare

Just to live

One day

Out there

Out there among the millers and

The weavers and their wives

Through the roofs and

Gables I can see them

Ev'ry day they shout and scold

And go about their lives

Heedless of the gift it is to be them

If I

Was in their skin.

I’d treasure ev'ry instant

Out there.

Strolling by the Seine.

Taste a morning

Out there

Like ordinary men.

Who freely walk a

Bout there

Just one day and then

I swear I'll be content

With my share

Won’t resent.

Won’t despair

Old and bent.

I won't care

I'll have spent

One

Day

Out

There

THANK YOU