Original Broadway Cast - Defying Gravity (duet with Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth) lyrics
rate meGlinda: [Spoken]
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
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: [Spoken]
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: [Spoken]
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 leap.
It'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 till 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!
I'd sooner buy
Defying gravity.
Kiss me goodbye,
I'm defying gravity.
And you can't pull me down.
Elphaba: [Spoken]
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 'em.
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.
[Spoken]
Well? Are you coming?
Glinda:
I hope you're happy
Now that you're choosing this.
Elphaba: [Spoken]
You too.
I hope it brings you bliss.
Both:
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 gonna bring me down!
Glinda:
I hope you're happy!
Citizens of Oz:
Look at her, she's wicked!
Get her!
Elphaba: Citizenz of Oz:
Bring me down! No one mourns the wicked,
So we've got to bring her
Oh ah ah ahhhhh! Down!
