Out There (Demo 1)

[STEPHEN SCHWARTZ as 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

(spoken)
Remember what I taught you, Quasimodo

[STEVE as FROLLO (ALAN MENKEN as 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?

[ALAN as QUASIMODO]
You're my defender

[STEVE as FROLLO (ALAN MENKEN as QUASIMODO)]
You are such a monster
They would hurt you if they could
They would call you "hideous" and "hateful" (I am a monster)
Everything I tell you, boy
I do for your own good
I'm surprised to find you so ungrateful (Only a monster)

Out there you'd become their prey
(Master, I am sorry I offended you this way)
Unrepentant, out there, not if you obey
And stay in here

[ALAN as QUASIMODO]
Safe behind these windows and these parapets of stone
Gazing at the people down below me
All my life, I watched 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 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
Give me one day out there
Like ordinary men
Who freely walk about there
Just one day and then I'd swear
I'd 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