What are the lyrics to Defying Gravity?

Answer 1

The lyrics to "Defying Gravity" from Wicked are:

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

'Cuz 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:

ELPHABASo 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!

Answer 2

The song basically is about Elphaba breaking free and where people believe she is "Wicked". She believes things are corrupt in OZ and everything is a lie, she is showing people she isn't accepting limits, and that no one can stop her or bring her down. This is where Elphaba cannot turn back, and unfortunately Glinda won't follow her path.

Answer 3

That Elphaba Thropp will go against accepted, conventional, established ways of doing things in Oz is the main point of the song "Defying gravity" in the musical "Wicked."

Specifically, this song is the point beyond which Elphaba cannot go back on her convictions. She indicates that her beliefs are so passionate that she will take action against the seemingly impossible. That she defies gravity means that she challenges the very foundations upon which the Wizard and Madame Morrible have built their power and established their control over Oz.

Answer 4

Going against established, expected ways of doing thingsis what the song "Defying gravity" is about in the musical "Wicked."

Specifically, gravity is what keeps people earth-bound. Elphaba Thropp does not want to be bound to the way things are in the land of Oz. This is her rebellion, in which she is going to do things her way and not be cowed by people such as Madame Morrible and the Wizard, who are critical parts of the unacceptable woodwork of how things are done in Oz.