2007-04-02 12:45 a.m.
Defying Gravity
Defying Gravity Glinda: Elphaba, why couldn't you have stayed calm for once instead of flying off the handle?!
I hope you're happy!
I hope you're happy, now!
I hope you're happy how you've hurt your cause forever;
I hope you think you're clever!Elphaba: I hope you're happy!
I hope you're happy too!
I hope you're proud how you would grovel in submission to feed your own ambition!Both: So though I can't imagine how,
I hope you're happy right now!Glinda: Elphie, listen to me! Just say you're sorry!
You can still be with the wizard,
What you've worked and waited for-
You can have all you ever wanted!Elphaba: I know.
But I don't want it-
No, I can't want it anymore
Something has changed within me
Something is not the same
I'm through with playing by the rules of someone else's game
Too late for second-guessing
Too late to go back to sleep
It's time to trust my instincts
Close my eyes
And leapIt's time to try defying gravity
I think I'll try defying gravity
And you can't pull me down!Glinda: Can't I make you understand?
You're having delusions of grandeur!Elphaba: I'm through accepting limits
'Cause someone says they're so
Some things I cannot change
But 'til I try, I'll never know
Too long I've been afraid of losing love I guess I've lost
Well, if that's love, it comes at much too high a cost!Instead, I'll fly defying gravity
Kiss me goodbye, I'm defying gravity
And you can't pull me down!
Glinda, come with me! Think of what we could do together:
Unlimited, together we're unlimited
Together we'll be the greatest team there's ever been! Glinda...
Dreams, the way we planned them-Glinda: If we work in tandem-
Both: There's no fight we cannot win!
Just you and I, defying gravity!
With you and I defying gravity-Elphaba: They'll never bring us down!
Well, are you coming?Glinda: I hope you're happy, now that you're choosing this.
Elphaba: You too.
I hope it brings you blissBoth: I really hope you get it,
And you don't live to regret it!
I hope you're happy in the end,
I hope you're happy, my friend!Elphaba: So, if you care to find me,
Look to the Western Sky!
As someone told me lately,
Everyone deserves the chance to fly!
And if I'm flying solo, at least I'm flying free!
To those who'd ground me, take a message back from me!
Tell them how I am defying gravity!
I'm flying high, defying gravity!
And soon I'll match them in renown!
And nobody in all of Oz,
No wizard that there is or was,
Is ever going to bring me down!Glinda: I hope you're happy!
Guards: Look at her, she's wicked!
Get her!
No one mourns the wicked,
And we've got to bring her down!
I've made a decision. We'll have to see how long I can stick to it, but I've made it regardless. I'm going to work on my shyness. I'm young, I'm in college, the whole world is still open to me. Time enough to settle into a boring adult role later. While I still can, I'm going to defy gravity and chase my dreams. I will be in at least one play and one musical by the end of my college experience. If an audition for either Rent or Wicked presents itself, then I will do whatever it takes to make it into the show, even as an extra - an understudy to the chorus, I don't care - I'll do it.
I can't let fear control me anymore. I can do this. Back | Older | Current | Next
