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 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

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

[spoken]Remember what I taught you, 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

 [You are my one defender]

Out there they'll revile you

 As a monster

 [I 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/I'll stay

In here

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

 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 un

 aware

 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

Ev'ry 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 ev'ry instant

Out there

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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

 With my share

 Won't resent

 Won't de

spair

 Old and bent

 I won't

care

 I'll have

spent

One

day

Out

there