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Tom Hulce & Tony Jay
Out There
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Out There was released on May 28, 1996 by Walt Disney Records as a part of the album The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Original Soundtrack)
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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Tony Jay
Tony Jay
Vocals
Tom Hulce
Tom Hulce
Vocals
Jack Everly
Jack Everly
Conductor
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Stephen Laurence Schwartz
Stephen Laurence Schwartz
Lyrics
Alan Menken
Alan Menken
Composer
Michael Starobin
Michael Starobin
Orchestrator
David Friedman
David Friedman
Vocal Arranger
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Stephen Laurence Schwartz
Stephen Laurence Schwartz
Producer
Alan Menken
Alan Menken
Producer
Bruce Botnick
Bruce Botnick
Mixing Engineer
Joey Miskulin
Joey Miskulin
Producer
Ted Kryczko
Ted Kryczko
Producer
Gary Powell
Gary Powell
Producer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
The world is cruel
The world is wicked
It's I alone whom you can trust in this whole city
I am your only friend
[Verse 2]
I who keep you, teach you, feed you, dress you
I who look upon you without fear
How can I protect you, boy, unless you always stay in here?
Away in here
Remember what I've taught you, Quasimodo
[Verse 3]
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
You are my one defender
[Chorus]
Out there, they'll revile you as a monster
I am a monster
Out there, they will hate and scorn and jeer
Only a monster
Why invite their calumny and consternation?
Stay in here, be faithful to me
I'm faithful
Grateful to me
I'm grateful
Do as I say
Obey, and stay in here
I'll stay in here
[Verse 4]
Safe behind these windows and these parapets of stone
Gazing at the people down below me
All my life, I watch 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
[Chorus]
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!
[Verse 5]
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
[Chorus]
Out there, strolling by the Seine, taste a morning
Out there, like ordinary men who freely walk
About there, just one day, and then I swear I'll be content
[Outro]
With my share
Won't resent, won't despair
Old and bent, I won't care
I'll have spent one day out there!
Written by: Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz

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