| Glinda:
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| Elphaba — why couldn’t you have stayed calm for once,
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| Instead of flying off the handle!
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| I hope you’re happy
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| I hope you’re happy now
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| I hope you’re happy how you
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| Hurt your cause forever
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| I hope you think you’re clever
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| Elphaba:
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| I hope you’re happy
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| I hope you’re happy too
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| I hope you’re proud how you
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| Would grovel in submission
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| To feed your own ambition
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| Both:
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| So though I can’t imagine how
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| I hope you’re happy right now…
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| Glinda:
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| Elphie, listen to me — just say you’re sorry…
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| You can still be with the wizard
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| What you’ve worked and waited for
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| You can have all you ever wanted…
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| Elphaba:
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| I know… But I don’t want it — NO — I can’t want it Anymore…
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| Something has changed within me Something is not the same
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| I’m through with playing by the rules
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| Of someone else’s game
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| Too late for second-guessing
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| Too late to go back to sleep
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| It’s time to trust my instincts
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| Close my eyes and leap
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| It’s time to try
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| Defying gravity
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| I think I’ll try
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| Defying gravity
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| And you can’t pull me down…
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| Glinda:
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| Can’t I make you understand, you’re having delusions of grandeur???
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| Elphaba:
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| I’m through accepting limits
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| 'Cuz someone says they’re so Some things I cannot change
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| But 'till I try, I’ll never know
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| Too long I’ve been afraid of Losing love — I guess I have lost
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| Well, if that’s love
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| It comes at much too high a cost
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| I’d sooner buy
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| Defying gravity
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| Kiss me goodbye
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| I’m defying gravity
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| And you can’t pull me down…
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| Glinda, come with me. |
| Think of what we could do — together.
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| Unlimited
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| Together we’re unlimited
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| Together we’ll be the greatest team
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| There’s ever been, Glinda,
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| Dreams the way we planned 'em
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| Glinda:
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| If we work in tandem
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| Both:
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| There’s no fight we cannot win
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| Just you and I Defying gravity
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| With you and I Defying gravity
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| Elphaba:
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| They’ll never bring us down…
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| Well? |
| Are you coming?
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| Glinda:
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| I hope you’re happy
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| Now that you’re choosing this…
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| Elphaba:
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| You too — I hope it brings you bliss
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| Both:
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| I really hope you get it And you don’t live to regret it I hope you’re happy in the end
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| I hope you’re happy, my friend…
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| Elphaba:
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| So if you care to find me Look to the western sky
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| As someone told me lately —
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| Ev’ryone deserves the chance to fly
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| And if I’m flying solo
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| At least I’m flying free
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| To those who’d ground me Take a message back from me —
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| Tell them how I Am defying gravity!
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| I’m flying high
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| Defying gravity!
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| And soon I’ll match them in renown
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| And nobody in all of Oz No wizard that there is or was
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| Is ever gonna bring me down!
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| Glinda:
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| I hope you’re happy!
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| Citizens of Oz:
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| Look at her, shes wicked!
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| Get her!
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| Elphaba:
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| …bring me down!
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| Citizens of Oz:
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| No one mourns the wicked
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| So we’ve got to bring her…
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| Elphaba:
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| Ahhhh!
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| Citizens of Oz:
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| Down! |