defying gravity
DESCRIPTION
"Defying Gravity" is the signature song from the musical Wicked, composed by Stephen Schwartz, originally recorded by Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth on may,10, 2003, and released on December 16, 2003. It is mostly a solo sung by the main character of the show, Elphaba (the Wicked Witch of the West), with two small duets at the beginning and in the middle of the song between Elphaba and her friend Glinda, and a chorus part in the end in which the citizens of Oz sing. It was performed on the BBC television programme I'd Do Anything, and as a result the song charted at no. 60 on the official UK Singles chart.[1]TRANSCRIPT
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DEFYING GR VITY
Music
and
Lyrics by
STEPHEN SCHW RTZ
Freely with quiet intensity
Some thing has changed with in e
some thing is not he s ak e I m throughwith play
Copyright
2 3
Greydog
usic
ll Rights Reserved Used by Permission
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t y
de fy ing grav i ty
ithped l
I think I ll t y de fy ing
grav i ty,- and you can t
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I m
through ac cept ing lim its
cause some one says
nev er
10s ing love guess ve lost
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Moderato dreamily
you can t pull me
own.
I
I
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I I I I l l
id
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l im it ed
M y fu- ture i s
un lim i t ed And I ve just h c
vi sion a1 mo st like a proph e cy, know-
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Freely
It sounds
tru
ly cra zy, and true, the vi sion's ha zy
But swear some day I'll be up in the
Allegro
as
before
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de fy ing grav i ty
G rn7(no5) Esus F sus
I
Fly ing so high,
I
de fy ing
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grav i ty, They ll nev er pull me down
Triumphantly
So if-
Y U
care to find- me,
i i i i i i i
s:
z n
l o o k to the west em sky As some one told
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me late ly: ev 'ry one - de serves the chance to
fly And if I'm fly ing so lo, at least I'm fly
st st.
ing free- To those who'd g r o u n d me, take a mes
sage back from me
...
Tell them how
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ing grav i ty
~ b s u s 2 s u s
-
I m fly ing
igh
I
de fy ing
grav i ty, and soon I ll match them in e
ith determination
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all of o z , no Wiz ard that there is or was is
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ev er gon na bring down ...
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