Out There (From The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
Safe behind these windows and these parapets of stone
Gazing at the people down below me
All my life I watch them as I hide up here alone
Hungry for the histories they show me
All my life I memorize their faces
Knowing them as they will never know me
All my life I wonder how it feels to pass a day
Not above them, but part of them
And out there, living in the sun
Give me one day out there, all I ask is one
To hold forever, out there
Where they all live unaware
What I'd give, what I'd dare
Just to live one day out there!
Out there among the millers and the weavers and their wives
Through the roofs and gables I can see them
Everyday they shout and scold and go about their lives
Heedless of the gift it is to be them
If I was in their skin, I'd treasure every instant
Out there, strolling by the Seine
Taste a morning out there, like ordinary men
Who freely walk about there
Just one day and then I swear I'll be content
With my share
Won't resent
won't despair
Old and bent
I won't care
I'll have spent one day out there!
Gazing at the people down below me
All my life I watch them as I hide up here alone
Hungry for the histories they show me
All my life I memorize their faces
Knowing them as they will never know me
All my life I wonder how it feels to pass a day
Not above them, but part of them
And out there, living in the sun
Give me one day out there, all I ask is one
To hold forever, out there
Where they all live unaware
What I'd give, what I'd dare
Just to live one day out there!
Out there among the millers and the weavers and their wives
Through the roofs and gables I can see them
Everyday they shout and scold and go about their lives
Heedless of the gift it is to be them
If I was in their skin, I'd treasure every instant
Out there, strolling by the Seine
Taste a morning out there, like ordinary men
Who freely walk about there
Just one day and then I swear I'll be content
With my share
Won't resent
won't despair
Old and bent
I won't care
I'll have spent one day out there!
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Writer(s): Steven Curtis Chapman, Michael Whitaker Smith, Bob Briner
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Other Album Tracks
- Tonight / Something's Coming (From West Side Story)
- Not While I'm Around (From Sweeny Todd)
- Out There (From The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
- A New Life (From Jekyll and Hyde)
- Do You Hear the People Sing? (From Les Miserables)
- Bring Him Home (From Les Miserables)
- Into the Fire (From The Scarlet Pimpernel)
- God Help the Outcasts (From The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
- Somewhere (From West Side Story)
- Go the Distance (From Hercules)
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