Out There Lyrics - Singles - Alan Menken

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've 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 

You do not comprehend, you are my one defender 

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Out there they'll revile you as a monster 

I am a 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 stay in here 

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'd shown 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 

Every 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 every instant 

Out there strolling by the Seine 

Taste a morning out there like ordinary men 

Who freely walk about 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