SONG: Out There
ARTIST: Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz
From the musical, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The world is cruel
The world is wicked
It s I alone whom you can trust in this whole city
G#sus (no5) /
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
/ /
[spoken]Remember what I taught you, Quasimodo
You are deformed
[I am deformed]
And you are ugly
[And I am ugly]
And these are crimes
For which the world
Shows little pity
G#sus
You do not comprehend
A#m7b5 /
[You are my one defender]
Out there they ll revile you
As a monster
[I monster]
Out there they will hate
And scorn and jeer
[Only a monster]
Why invite their calumny
And consternation?
Stay in here
Be faithful to me
[I m faithful]
Grateful to me
[I m grateful]
Do as I say
/
Obey
/
And/I ll stay
In here
/ /
/ F/
/
/
/ /
Safe behind these windows and these parapets of stone
/ /
Gazing at the people down below me
(no3rd) F#m7b5
All my life I watch them as I hide up here alone
(no3rd)
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 un
aware
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
A#7sys
Strolling by
the Seine
A#7sus
Taste a morning
out there
A#7sus
Like ordinary
men
/
Who freely walk
about there
A#7sus
Just one day
and then
I swear I ll be content
(add2)
With my share
A#7sus
Won t resent
A#7sus/
Won t de
/ /
spair
A#7sus/ A#7sus/
Old and bent
A#7sus/
I won t
A#sus/ A#7sus/
care
A#sus/
I ll have
spent
/
One
G#/A#
day
Out
/ / (no5) (add2)
there