The Wizard and I

Song The Wizard and I
Artist Stephen Schwartz
Album Wicked: A New Musical

Lyrics

[ar: Carole Shelley as 'Madame Morrible', Idina Menzal as 'Elphaba']
[ti: The Wizard And I]
[al: Wicked (Original Broadway Cast)]
[id: zlshpscs]
[00:00.00] Madame Morrible:
[00:00.97] Oh, Miss Elphaba--
[00:03.15] Many years have I waited
[00:06.08] For a gift like yours to appear
[00:09.82] Why, I predict the Wizard
[00:11.95] Could make you his
[00:13.82] Magic Grand Vizier!
[00:17.19]
[00:17.69] My dear, my dear
[00:20.49] I'll write at once to the Wizard
[00:23.81] Tell him of you in advance
[00:27.93] With a talent like yours, dear
[00:30.24] There is a defin-ish chance
[00:33.48] If you work as you should
[00:38.52] You'll be making good
[00:44.65]
[00:49.25] Elphaba:
[00:50.99] Did that really just happen?
[00:54.06] Have I actually understood?
[00:57.29] This weird quirk I've tried
[00:59.35] To suppress or hide
[01:01.35] Is a talent that could
[01:04.40] Help me meet the Wizard
[01:09.27] If I make good
[01:14.33] So I'll make good
[01:22.37]
[01:24.18] When I meet the Wizard
[01:27.44] Once I prove my worth
[01:30.87] And then I meet the Wizard
[01:33.35] What I've waited for since--since birth!
[01:37.03] And with all his Wizard wisdom
[01:40.15] By my looks he won't be blinded
[01:43.77] Do you think the Wizard is dumb?
[01:47.07] Or like Munchkins, so small-minded?
[01:50.20] No! He'll say to me,
[01:51.89] "I see who you truly are--
[01:54.19] A girl on whom I can rely!"
[01:57.31] And that's how we'll begin
[02:00.50] The Wizard and I
[02:05.30]
[02:08.68] Once I'm with the Wizard
[02:11.79] My whole life will change
[02:15.09] Cause once you're with the Wizard
[02:18.40] No one thinks you're strange!
[02:21.27] No father is not proud of you
[02:24.83] No sister acts ashamed
[02:28.64] And all of Oz has to love you
[02:31.88] When by the Wizard you're acclaimed!
[02:35.13] And this gift or this curse
[02:37.19] I have inside
[02:39.00] Maybe at last I'll know why
[02:42.06] When we are hand in hand
[02:44.74] The Wizard and I!
[02:48.36]
[02:49.30] And one day, he'll say to me, "Elphaba--
[02:52.42] A girl who is so superior
[02:55.65] Shouldn't a girl who's so good inside
[02:59.47] Have a matching exterior?
[03:02.04] And since folks here to an absurd degree
[03:05.47] Seem fixated on your verdigris
[03:08.83] Would it be all right by you
[03:12.63] If I de-greenify you?"
[03:18.93] And though of course, that's not important to me
[03:21.80] "All right, why not?" I'll reply
[03:25.00] Oh, what a pair we'll be
[03:27.62] The Wizard and I
[03:31.67] Yes, what a pair we'll be
[03:34.23] The Wizard and
[03:35.92]
[03:39.90] Unlimited
[03:43.46] My future is unlimited
[03:48.07] And I've just had a vision
[03:49.77] Almost like a prophecy
[03:53.01] I know--it sounds truly crazy
[03:58.06] And true, the vision's hazy
[04:01.50] But I swear, someday there'll be
[04:04.86] A celebration throughout Oz
[04:08.44] That's all to do with me!
[04:19.79]
[04:20.04] And I'll stand there with the Wizard
[04:24.09] Feeling things I've never felt
[04:28.84] And though I'll never show it
[04:31.27] I'd be so happy I could melt!
[04:34.89] And so it will be
[04:35.88] For the rest of my life
[04:37.82] And I'll want nothing else till I die
[04:40.89] Held in such high esteem
[04:43.76] When people see me, they will scream
[04:47.06] For half of Oz's favorite team!
[04:53.30] The Wizard
[04:55.05] And I!