Out There - The Hunchback of Nortre 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've memorized 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 up there, living in the sun, Give me one day up there. All I ask is one, to hope forever. Up there where you dare, Just to live one day. Blues and gables, I can see them. Every day they shout, scold, and go about their lives. Heedless of the gift it is to be them, Here's Bernstein. Up there, strolling by the sand, Taste the morning out there, Like ordinary men who freely walk. Up there, just one day, and then I swear I'll be content With my share. Won't resent, won't despair, Old and damned, Day out there.