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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
[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
You do not comprehend
[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
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 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
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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 de
spair
Old and bent
I won't
care
I'll have
spent
One
day
Out
there