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Out There

Alan Menken

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SONG: Out There
ARTIST: Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz

From the musical, The Hunchback of Notre Dame


             C#m
The world is cruel
             A
The world is wicked
        C#m                                   D
It's I alone whom you can trust in this whole city
          G#sus Ab   Bbm7(no5)   Ab/B#  
I am your only friend

C#m                                  A
I who keep you, teach you, feed you, dress you
C#m                         Abm
I who look upon you without fear
F#m                           Abm             Amaj7
How can I protect you, boy, unless you always stay in here
 E/G    Ab  
Away in here

F#m/Ab   C#m/Ab   Ab7
[spoken]Remember what I taught you, Quasimodo


          C#m
You are deformed
[I am deformed]
            A
And you are ugly
[And I am ugly]
              C#m
And these are crimes
For which the world
             D
Shows little pity
           G#sus Ab  
You do not comprehend
            A#m7b5 Ab/B#  
[You are my one defender]

C#m       B         A  
Out there they'll revile you
     B/A  A  
As a monster
[I Am A monster]
C#m       B         A  
Out there they will hate
              Abm
And scorn and jeer
[Only a monster]
F#m7
Why invite their calumny
    Abm
And consternation?
Amaj7
Stay in here
   Abm
Be faithful to me
[I'm faithful]
A        F#m  Ab   
Grateful to me
[I'm grateful]

C#m
Do as I say
 F#m/C#  
Obey
         C#m/Ab  
And/I'll stay
Ab C#m
In here


F#m/C# C#m F#m/C#   C#m   
C    Fm/C    C    C7    F/C 
C    Fm/C    C    C7    
Fm/C


C      Fm/C       C       C7        Fm/C        C  
Safe behind these windows and these parapets of stone
C      Fm/C   C      C7     Fm/C  C
Gazing at the people down below me
Em     Am/E   Em         E7(no3rd)  A/E  F#m7b5  Em  
All my life I watch them as I hide up here alone
Em     Am/E    Em   E7(no3rd)  Am/E  Em
Hungry for the histories they show me
G7/D                         F  C    Dm/C    C   
All my life I memorize their faces
G7                              F  C    Dm/C    C   
Knowing them as they will never know me
F                           C/E
All my life I wonder how it feels to pass a day
     Dm7       Dm7
Not above them
         Dm7/G   Dm7/G
But part of them


    C
And out there
Fmaj7  Gsus4    G   
Living in 
    Csus2/E   C/E  
the sun
F       F/G     C
Give me one day out there
F     Gsus4   Eb
All I ask is one
   Abmaj7  Fm7/Bb  
To hold forever
C
Out there
Fmaj7      Gsus4  G  Em7
Where they all live un 
 Am
aware
         Dm7 Dm7/G
What I'd give
         Em7 Am
What I'd dare
        Dm7  F/E F6  F/G C    Fm/C    C    C7    Fm/C C    Fm/C    C    C7    Fm/C
Just to live one day out there


    F      G/F      F               G/F               F  
Out there among the millers and the weavers and their wives
F           G/F       F            Em7
Through the roofs and gables I can see them
Ab    Bb/Ab    Ab                  Bb/Ab          Ab  
Ev'ry day they shout and scold and go about their lives
Fm7                           Fm7
Heedless of the gift it is to be them
   C/G   Dm7      
If I was in their skin
    C/G      Bb7
I'd treasure ev'ry instant


Eb
Out there
Abmaj7    A#7sys    Bb7   
Strolling by 
    Eb/G
the Seine
Ab      A#7sus  Bb   
Taste a morning 
Eb
out there
     Abmaj7 A#7sus  Bb7   
Like ordinary 
F#
men
    B      Abm7/C#  
Who freely walk 
 Eb
about there
Abmaj7   A#7sus    Bb7   
Just one day 
    Gm
and then
  Cm7              Fm7 Fm7/Bb
I swear I'll be content
     Bb7  F#(add2) Bmaj7
With my share
        A#7sus
Won't resent
      A#7sus/F   
Won't de 
Gm/F    Fm/Bb  
spair
    Gm  A#7sus/G    A#7sus/F  
Old and bent
  A#7sus/C   
I won't 
A#sus/C    A#7sus/G  
care
     A#sus/D   
I'll have 
Fm7  
spent
Ab/G  
One 
G#/A#
day
Out 
Eb    Abm/Eb    Eb    Eb7    Abm Eb    Abm/Eb    Eb    Eb7    Abm   F7(no5)   Eb(add2)
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Out There

Alan Menken