"Out There" From The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Frollo: 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'll always stay in here? Away in here? *Spoken* Remember what I've taught you Quasimodo. *Sung* 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 pity! You do not comprehend! Quasimodo: You are my one 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 . . . Frolo: Why invite thier caulmny and conspiration? Stay in here! Be faithful to me! Quasimodo: I'm faithful! Frollo: Be grateful to me! Quasimodo: I'm grateful! Frollo: Do as I say. Obey. And stay in here. Quasimodo: I'll stay in here. Safe behind these windows and these parapets of stone, gazing at the people down below me. All my life I've watched them as I hide up here alone, hungry for the history they've shown me. All my life I've memorized thier faces. Knowing them as they will never know me. All my life I wondered 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 thier wives. Through the rooms and gables I can see them. Everyday they shout and scold and go about thier lives, heedless of the gift it is to be them! If I was in thier skin, I'd treasure every instant! Out there, strolling by the sand. 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!

Manipulative and cruel Judge Frollo warns Quasimodo about the dangers of leaving the belltower.

Deformed but kind Quasimodo sings of his desire to be free for one day, living with the 'ordinary' people to his only friends, the Gargoyles.

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