| For a gift like yours to appear
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| Why, I predict the Wizard
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| Could make you his
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| Magic grand vizier!
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| My dear, my dear
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| I’ll write at once to the Wizard
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| Tell him of you in advance
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| With a talent like yours, dear
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| There is a defin-ish chance
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| If you work as you should
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| You’ll be making good:
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| ELPHABA
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| Did that really just happen?
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| Have I actually understood?
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| This weird quirk I’ve tried
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| To suppress or hide
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| Is a talent that could
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| Help me meet the Wizard
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| If I make good
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| So I’ll make good:
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| When I meet the Wizard
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| Once I prove my worth
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| And then I meet the Wizard
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| What I’ve waited for since: since birth!
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| And with all his Wizard wisdom
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| By my looks, he won’t be blinded
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| Do you think the Wizard is dumb?
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| Or, like Munchkins, so small-minded?
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| No! |
| He’ll say to me,
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| «I see who you truly are —
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| A girl on whom I can rely!»
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| And that’s how we’ll begin
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| The Wizard and I:
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| Once I’m with the Wizard
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| My whole life will change
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| 'Cuz once you’re with the Wizard
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| No one thinks you’re strange!
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| No father is not proud of you,
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| No sister acts ashamed
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| And all of Oz has to love you
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| When by the Wizard you’re acclaimed
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| And this gift — or this curse —
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| I have inside
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| Maybe at last, I’ll know why
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| When we are hand and hand —
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| The Wizard and I!
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| And one day, he’ll say to me, «Elphaba,
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| A girl who is so superior
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| Shouldn’t a girl who’s so good inside
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| Have a matching exterior?
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| And since folks here to an absurd degree
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| Seem fixated on your verdigris
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| Would it be all right by you
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| If I de-greenify you?»
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| And though of course
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| That’s not important to me
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| «All right, why not?"I'll reply
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| Oh, what a pair we’ll be The Wizard and I:
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| Yes, what a pair we’ll be The Wizard and:
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| Unlimited
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| My future is unlimited
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| And I’ve just had a vision
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| Almost like a prophecy
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| I know — it sounds truly crazy
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| And true, the vision’s hazy
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| But I swear, someday there’ll be A celebration throughout Oz That’s all to do with me!
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| And I’ll stand there with the Wizard
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| Feeling things I’ve never felt
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| And though I’d never show it
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| I’ll be so happy, I could melt!
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| And so it will be For the rest of my life
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| And I’ll want nothing else
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| Till I die
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| Held in such high esteem
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| When people see me, they will scream
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| For half of Oz’s fav’rite team:
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| The Wizard
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| And I! |