Defying Gravity Sung By "WICKED" The Brodway Musical

  GLINDA
(spoken) Elphaba - why couldn't you have stayed calm for
once, instead of flying off the handle!
(sung) I hope you're happy!
I hope you're happy now
I hope you're happy how you
Hurt your cause forever
I hope you think you're clever!

ELPHABA
I hope you're happy
I hope you're happy, too
I hope you're proud how you
Would grovel in submission
To feed your own ambition

BOTH
So though I can't imagine how
I hope you're happy right now

GLINDA
(spoken) Elphie, listen to me. Just say you're sorry:
(sung) You can still be with the Wizard
What you've worked and waited for
You can have all you ever wanted:

ELPHABA
(spoken) I know:
(sung) But I don't want it -
No - I can't want it
Anymore:

Something has changed within me
Something is not the same
I'm through with playing by the rules
Of someone else's game
Too late for second-guessing
Too late to go back to sleep
It's time to trust my instincts
Close my eyes: and leap!

It's time to try
Defying gravity
I think I'll try
Defying gravity
And you can't pull me down!

GLINDA
Can't I make you understand?
You're having delusions of grandeur:

ELPHABA
I'm through accepting limits
''cause someone says they're so
Some things I cannot change
But till I try, I'll never know!
Too long I've been afraid of
Losing love I guess I've lost
Well, if that's love
It comes at much too high a cost!
I'd sooner buy
Defying gravity
Kiss me goodbye
I'm defying gravity
And you can't pull me down:
(spoken) Glinda - come with me. Think of what we could
do: together.

(sung) Unlimited
Together we're unlimited
Together we'll be the greatest team
There's ever been
Glinda -
Dreams, the way we planned 'em

GLINDA
If we work in tandem:

BOTH
There's no fight we cannot win
Just you and I
Defying gravity
With you and I
Defying gravity

ELPHABA
They'll never bring us down!
(spoken) Well? Are you coming?

GLINDA
I hope you're happy
Now that you're choosing this

ELPHABA
(spoken) You too
(sung) I hope it brings you bliss

BOTH
I really hope you get it
And you don't live to regret it
I hope you're happy in the end
I hope you're happy, my friend:

ELPHABA So if you care to find me
Look to the western sky!
As someone told me lately:
"Ev'ryone deserves the chance to fly!"
And if I'm flying solo
At least I'm flying free
To those who'd ground me
Take a message back from me
Tell them how I am
Defying gravity
I'm flying high
Defying gravity
And soon I'll match them in renown
And nobody in all of Oz
No Wizard that there is or was
Is ever gonna bring me down!

GLINDA
I hope you're happy!

CITIZENS OF OZ
Look at her, she's wicked!
Get her!

ELPHABA
:Bring me down!

CITIZENS OF OZ
No one mourns the wicked
So we've got to bring her

ELPHABA
Ahhh!

CITIZENS OF OZ
Down!
            In the song “DefyingGravity” sung by the cast of “WICKED,” the Broadway musical, the singers, writers, and composers show passion throughout the song. During this song the artists say many things that make you visualize what is happening. During the song the artists says, “It’s time to trust my instincts, close my eyes, and leap!” I feel the urge to look inside my soul, think about what is around me, and take a jump forward in life. The artists also mention that, “Some things I cannot change. But till I try, I’ll never know! Too long I’ve been afraid of losing love I guess I’ve lost. Well if that’s love it comes at much too high a cost,” I feel in my imagination for a long time. I’ve been afraid of the love of my life being taken away from me but I was too late and it strikes back with more emotion and pain. The song mentions a girl named Elphaba who is different than everyone else and it doesn’t make her a bad person because she has green skin, she is just unique. But during this song she struggles, and is confused about what is happening with her, what her instincts and surroundings are trying to say!? Elphaba in her confusion says, “So if you care to find me look to the western sky! As someone told me lately: everyone deserves the chance to fly, an if I’m flying solo at least I’m flying free.” Many pictures and images wonder around my head when I sing this song. I imagine that this song is trying to send a message saying a friend is here on your side and even if you just need someone to talk to, find me on your side. I believe that everyone should fly free. Even if you don’t want to be a bad witch, you can still fly! When someone goes against my instinct, I stand my ground. People who try to take my ground, take a part of me and my soul at the same time.

 

As you can see this is a song that can relate to many of us. There is something that I always loved about this song, but could never describe. I guess it was my instinct that said this is the song you should follow by and always trust yourself, and what decision you make you will admire. I feel that when I hear this song I can feel the writer. The passion, the dream, the inspiration, the thrill. I have experienced many things thinking back to this song. Whether to lie or not lie about poor grades. To be a good person or a bad person when someone likes me but I don’t like them. To go and get up early to support my brother in basketball and say that if you need a lending hand I’m here to help!? This song represents the meaning of kindness, passion, freedom, representation, and a special someone who is here to help.