Frollo: The world is cruel
The world is wicked
It's I alone who you can trust in this whole city
I am your only friend
I who keep you, feed you, teach 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.
(sung)
Frollo: You are deformed
Quasimodo: I am deformed
Frollo: And you are ugly
Quasimodo: And I am ugly
Frollo: And these are crimes for which the world shows little pitty
You do not comprehend
Quasimodo: You're my defender
Frollo: Out there they'll revile you as a monster
Quasimodo: I am a monster
Frollo: Out there they will hate and scorn and jeer
Quasimodo: Only a monster
Frollo: Why invite their curses and their consternation
Stay in here
Be faithful to me
Quasimodo: I'm faithful
Frollo: Grateful to me
Quasimodo: I'm grateful
Frollo: Do as I say
Both: And stay in here
(spoken)
Frollo: Remember Quasimodo, this is your sanctuary.
Quasimodo: My sanctuary.
(sung)
Quasimodo: 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 show me
All my life I memorized 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 gabels 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 were in their skin
I'd treasure ev'ry instant
Out there
Strolling by the Siene
Taste the 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