C#5
The world is cruel
             A5
The world is wicked
        C#5                                   D5
It's I alone whom you can trust in this whole city
          G#sus Ab5   Bbm7(no5)   Ab5  
I am your only friend

C#5                                  A5
I who keep you, teach you, feed you, dress you
C#5                         Ab5
I who look upon you without fear
F#5                           Ab5             A5
How can I protect you, boy, unless you always stay in here
 E5    Ab5  
Away in here

F#5   C#5   Ab5
[spoken]Remember what I taught you, Quasimodo


          C#5
You are deformed
[I am deformed]
            A5
And you are ugly
[And I am ugly]
              C#5
And these are crimes
For which the world
             D5
Shows little pity
           G#sus Ab5  
You do not comprehend
            A#m7(b5) Ab5  
[You are my one defender]

C#5       B5         A5  
Out there they'll revile you
     B5  A5  
As a monster
[I A5 A5 monster]
C#5       B5         A5  
Out there they will hate
              Ab5
And scorn and jeer
[Only a monster]
F#5
Why invite their calumny
    Ab5
And consternation?
A5
Stay in here
   Ab5
Be faithful to me
[I'm faithful]
A5        F#5  Ab5   
Grateful to me
[I'm grateful]

C#5
Do as I say
 F#5  
Obey
         C#5  
And/I'll stay
Ab5 C#5
In here


F#5 C#5 F#5   C#5   
C5    F5    C5    C5    F5 
C5    F5    C5    C5    
F5


C5      F5       C5       C5        F5        C5  
Safe behind these windows and these parapets of stone
C5      F5   C5      C5     F5  C5
Gazing at the people down below me
E5     A5   E5         E7(no3rd)  A5  F#m7(b5)  E5  
All my life I watch them as I hide up here alone
E5     A5    E5   E7(no3rd)  A5  E5
Hungry for the histories they show me
G5                         F5  C5    D5    C5   
All my life I memorize their faces
G5                              F5  C5    D5    C5   
Knowing them as they will never know me
F5                           C5
All my life I wonder how it feels to pass a day
     D5       D5
Not above them
         D5   D5
But part of them


    C5
And out there
F5  G5    G5   
Living in 
    C5   C5  
the sun
F5       F5     C5
Give me one day out there
F5     G5   Eb5
All I ask is one
   Ab5  F5  
To hold forever
C5
Out there
F5      G5  G5  E5
Where they all live un 
 A5
aware
         D5 D5
What I'd give
         E5 A5
What I'd dare
        D5  F5 F5  F5 C5    F5    C5    C5    F5 C5    F5    C5    C5    F5
Just to live one day out there


    F5      G5      F5               G5               F5  
Out there among the millers and the weavers and their wives
F5           G5       F5            E5
Through the roofs and gables I can see them
Ab5    Bb5    Ab5                  Bb5          Ab5  
Ev'ry day they shout and scold and go about their lives
F5                           F5
Heedless of the gift it is to be them
   C5   D5      
If I was in their skin
    C5      Bb5
I'd treasure ev'ry instant


Eb5
Out there
Ab5    A#7sys    Bb5   
Strolling by 
    Eb5
the Seine
Ab5      A#7sus  Bb5   
Taste a morning 
Eb5
out there
     Ab5 A#7sus  Bb5   
Like ordinary 
F#5
men
    B5      Ab5  
Who freely walk 
 Eb5
about there
Ab5   A#7sus    Bb5   
Just one day 
    G5
and then
  C5              F5 F5
I swear I'll be content
     Bb5  F#(add2) B5
With my share
        A#7sus
Won't resent
      A#5   
Won't de 
G5    F5  
spair
    G5  A#5    A#5  
Old and bent
  A#5   
I won't 
A#5    A#5  
care
     A#5   
I'll have 
F5  
spent
Ab5  
One 
G#/A#
day
Out 
Eb5    Ab5    Eb5    Eb5    Ab5 Eb5    Ab5    Eb5    Eb5    Ab5   F7(no5)   Eb(add2)
there