The Wizard and I - Stephen Schwartz.mp3

[00:00.00]Madame Morrible:
[00:00.97]Oh, Miss Elphaba--
[00:03.15]Many years have I waited
[00:06.08]For a gift like yours to appear
[00:09.82]Why, I predict the Wizard
[00:11.95]Could make you his
[00:13.82]Magic Grand Vizier!
[00:17.19]
[00:17.69]My dear, my dear
[00:20.49]I'll write at once to the Wizard
[00:23.81]Tell him of you in advance
[00:27.93]With a talent like yours, dear
[00:30.24]There is a defin-ish chance
[00:33.48]If you work as you should
[00:38.52]You'll be making good
[00:44.65]
[00:49.25]Elphaba:
[00:50.99]Did that really just happen?
[00:54.06]Have I actually understood?
[00:57.29]This weird quirk I've tried
[00:59.35]To suppress or hide
[01:01.35]Is a talent that could
[01:04.40]Help me meet the Wizard
[01:09.27]If I make good
[01:14.33]So I'll make good
[01:22.37]
[01:24.18]When I meet the Wizard
[01:27.44]Once I prove my worth
[01:30.87]And then I meet the Wizard
[01:33.35]What I've waited for since--since birth!
[01:37.03]And with all his Wizard wisdom
[01:40.15]By my looks he won't be blinded
[01:43.77]Do you think the Wizard is dumb?
[01:47.07]Or like Munchkins, so small-minded?
[01:50.20]No! He'll say to me,
[01:51.89]"I see who you truly are--
[01:54.19]A girl on whom I can rely!"
[01:57.31]And that's how we'll begin
[02:00.50]The Wizard and I
[02:05.30]
[02:08.68]Once I'm with the Wizard
[02:11.79]My whole life will change
[02:15.09]Cause once you're with the Wizard
[02:18.40]No one thinks you're strange!
[02:21.27]No father is not proud of you
[02:24.83]No sister acts ashamed
[02:28.64]And all of Oz has to love you
[02:31.88]When by the Wizard you're acclaimed!
[02:35.13]And this gift or this curse
[02:37.19]I have inside
[02:39.00]Maybe at last I'll know why
[02:42.06]When we are hand in hand
[02:44.74]The Wizard and I!
[02:48.36]
[02:49.30]And one day, he'll say to me, "Elphaba--
[02:52.42]A girl who is so superior
[02:55.65]Shouldn't a girl who's so good inside
[02:59.47]Have a matching exterior?
[03:02.04]And since folks here to an absurd degree
[03:05.47]Seem fixated on your verdigris
[03:08.83]Would it be all right by you
[03:12.63]If I de-greenify you?"
[03:18.93]And though of course, that's not important to me
[03:21.80]"All right, why not?" I'll reply
[03:25.00]Oh, what a pair we'll be
[03:27.62]The Wizard and I
[03:31.67]Yes, what a pair we'll be
[03:34.23]The Wizard and
[03:35.92]
[03:39.90]Unlimited
[03:43.46]My future is unlimited
[03:48.07]And I've just had a vision
[03:49.77]Almost like a prophecy
[03:53.01]I know--it sounds truly crazy
[03:58.06]And true, the vision's hazy
[04:01.50]But I swear, someday there'll be
[04:04.86]A celebration throughout Oz
[04:08.44]That's all to do with me!
[04:19.79]
[04:20.04]And I'll stand there with the Wizard
[04:24.09]Feeling things I've never felt
[04:28.84]And though I'll never show it
[04:31.27]I'd be so happy I could melt!
[04:34.89]And so it will be
[04:35.88]For the rest of my life
[04:37.82]And I'll want nothing else till I die
[04:40.89]Held in such high esteem
[04:43.76]When people see me, they will scream
[04:47.06]For half of Oz's favorite team!
[04:53.30]The Wizard
[04:55.05]And I!