[MADAME MORRIBLE:]
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[spoken]
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Oh, Miss Elphaba
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[sung/spoken]
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Many years I have waited
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For a gift like yours to appear
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Why, I predict the Wizard
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Could make you his
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Magic grand vizier!
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My dear, my dear
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I'll write at once to the Wizard
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Tell him of you in advance
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With a talent like yours, dear
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There is a defint-ish chance
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If you work as you should
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You'll be making good:
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[ELPHABA:]
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Did that really just happen?
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Have I actually understood?
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This weird quirk I've tried
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To suppress or hide
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Is a talent that could
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Help me meet the Wizard
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If I make good
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So I'll make good
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When I meet the Wizard,
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Once I prove my worth,
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And then I'll meet the Wizard
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What I've waited for since,
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[Spoken]
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Since birth!
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[Sung]
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And with all his Wizard wisdom,
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By my looks, he won't be blinded
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Do you think the Wizard is
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[Spoken]
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dumb?
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[Sung]
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Or, like Munchkins, so small-minded?
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[Spoken]
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No!
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[Sung]
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He'll say to me,
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"I see who you truly are -
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A girl on whom I can rely!"
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And that's how we'll begin
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The Wizard and I:
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Once I'm with the Wizard
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My whole life will change
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'Cuz once you're with the Wizard
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No one thinks you're strange!
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No father is not proud of you,
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No sister acts ashamed
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And all of Oz has to love you
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When by the Wizard, you're acclaimed
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And this gift or this curse
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I have inside
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Maybe at last, I'll know why
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When we are hand in hand -
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The Wizard and I!
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And one day, he'll say to me, "Elphaba,
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A girl who is so superior,
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Shouldn't a girl who's so good inside
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Have a matching exterior?
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And since folks here to an absurd degree
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Seem fixated on your verdigris
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Would it be all right by you
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If I de-greenified you?"
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And though of course,
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That's not important to me
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"All right, why not?" I'll reply
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Oh, what a pair we'll be
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The Wizard and I;
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Yes, what a pair we'll be
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The Wizard and...
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Unlimited
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My future is unlimited
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And I've just had a vision
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Almost like a prophecy
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I know - it sounds truly crazy
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And true, the vision's hazy
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But I swear, someday there'll be
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A celebration throughout Oz
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That's all to do with me!
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And I'll stand there with the Wizard,
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Feeling things I've never felt
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And though I'd never show it,
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I'd be so happy, I could melt!
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And so it will be
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For the rest of my life,
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And I'll want nothing else
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Till I die
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Held in such high esteem
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When people see me, they will scream
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For half of Oz's favorite team;
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The Wizard
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And I!
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The Wizard And I
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| Idina Menzel |
