Defying Gravity - From "Wicked" Original Broadway Cast Recording/2003

Elphaba, why couldn't you have stayed calm for once?
 Instead of flying off the handle!
 I hope you're happy
 I hope you're happy now
 I hope you're happy how you've hurt your cause forever
 I hope you think you're clever
 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
 So though I can't imagine how
 I hope you're happy right now
 Elphie, listen to me, just say you're sorry
 You can still be with the wizard
 What you've worked and waited for
 You can have all you ever wanted (I know)
 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
 Can't I make you understand
 You're having delusions of grandeur?
 I'm through accepting limits
 'Cause someone says they're so
 Some things I cannot change
 But 'til 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
 Glinda, come with me
 Think of what we could do, together
 Unlimited
 Together, we're unlimited
 Together we'll be the greatest team there's ever been
 Glinda, dreams the way we planned 'em
 If we work in tandem
 There's no fight we cannot win
 Just you and I, defying gravity
 With you and I defying gravity
 They'll never bring us down
 Well, are you coming?
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 I hope you're happy
 Now that you're choosing this (you, too)
 I hope it brings you bliss
 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
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 So if you care to find me
 Look to the western sky
 As someone told me lately
 "Everyone deserves the chance to fly"
 And if I'm flying solo
 At least I'm flying free
 To those who 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
 I hope you're happy (Look at her! She's wicked, get her)
 Bring me down! (No one mourns the wicked! So we've got to bring her)
 Oh! (Down)