The Wizard and I

Song The Wizard and I
Artist Carole Shelley
Album Wicked (Original Broadway Cast)

Lyrics

[00:02.05] (spoken) Oh, Miss Elphaba:
[00:02.72] (sung) Many years I have waited
[00:06.19] For a gift like yours to appear
[00:09.98] Why, I predict the Wizard
[00:12.01] Could make you his
[00:13.82] Magic grand vizier!
[00:17.70] My dear, my dear
[00:20.66] I'll write at once to the Wizard
[00:23.74] Tell him of you in advance
[00:27.85] With a talent like yours, dear
[00:30.36] There is a defin-ish chance
[00:33.73] If you work as you should
[00:40.03] You'll be making good:
[00:42.47]
[00:44.30] ELPHABA
[00:51.34] Did that really just happen?
[00:54.22] Have I actually understood?
[00:57.45] This weird quirk I've tried
[00:59.36] To suppress or hide
[01:01.43] Is a talent that could
[01:04.39] Help me meet the Wizard
[01:09.36] If I make good
[01:15.53] So I'll make good:
[01:18.23]
[01:24.11] When I meet the Wizard
[01:27.55] Once I prove my worth
[01:30.97] And then I meet the Wizard
[01:33.55] What I've waited for since: since birth!
[01:37.05] And with all his Wizard wisdom
[01:40.38] By my looks, he won't be blinded
[01:43.89] Do you think the Wizard is dumb?
[01:47.16] Or, like Munchkins, so small-minded?
[01:50.29] No! He'll say to me,
[01:51.94] "I see who you truly are -
[01:54.36] A girl on whom I can rely!"
[01:57.56] And that's how we'll begin
[02:00.56] The Wizard and I:
[02:04.14]
[02:08.57] Once I'm with the Wizard
[02:11.92] My whole life will change
[02:15.07] 'Cuz once you're with the Wizard
[02:18.39] No one thinks you're strange!
[02:21.31] No father is not proud of you,
[02:24.72] No sister acts ashamed
[02:28.57] And all of Oz has to love you
[02:31.50] When by the Wizard you're acclaimed
[02:35.23] And this gift - or this curse -
[02:37.69] I have inside
[02:38.97] Maybe at last, I'll know why
[02:42.05] When we are hand and hand -
[02:45.05] The Wizard and I!
[02:47.05]
[02:49.35] And one day, he'll say to me, "Elphaba,
[02:52.53] A girl who is so superior
[02:55.98] Shouldn't a girl who's so good inside
[02:59.38] Have a matching exterior?
[03:02.32] And since folks here to an absurd degree
[03:05.30] Seem fixated on your verdigris
[03:08.78] Would it be all right by you
[03:12.97] If I de-greenify you?"
[03:17.82]
[03:18.54] And though of course
[03:19.89] That's not important to me
[03:21.85] "All right, why not?" I'll reply
[03:24.93] Oh, what a pair we'll be
[03:27.63] The Wizard and I:
[03:31.66] Yes, what a pair we'll be
[03:34.24] The Wizard and:
[03:37.45]
[03:39.89] Unlimited
[03:43.46] My future is unlimited
[03:48.20] And I've just had a vision
[03:49.70] Almost like a prophecy
[03:52.98] I know - it sounds truly crazy
[03:58.15] And true, the vision's hazy
[04:01.15] But I swear, someday there'll be
[04:05.00] A celebration throughout Oz
[04:08.61] That's all to do with me!
[04:12.32]
[04:19.68] And I'll stand there with the Wizard
[04:24.55] Feeling things I've never felt
[04:28.90] And though I'd never show it
[04:31.41] I'll be so happy, I could melt!
[04:34.93] And so it will be
[04:36.22] For the rest of my life
[04:37.87] And I'll want nothing else
[04:39.39] Till I die
[04:40.98] Held in such high esteem
[04:43.96] When people see me, they will scream
[04:47.09] For half of Oz's fav'rite team:
[04:53.18] The Wizard
[04:55.40] And I!