FROLLO
The world is cruel, the world is wicked
It's I alone whom you can trust in this whole city
I am your only friend
I who keep you, teach you, feed you, dress you
I who look upon you without fear
How can I protect you, boy, unless you always stay in here
Away in here

You are deformed

QUASIMODO
I am deformed

FROLLO
And you are ugly

QUASIMODO
And I am ugly

FROLLO
And these are crimes for which the world shows little pity
You do not comprehend

QUASIMODO
You are my one defender

FROLLO
Out there they'll revile you as a monster

QUASIMODO
I am a monster

FROLLO
Out there they will hate and scorn and jeer

QUASIMODO
Only a monster

FROLLO
Why invite their calumny and consternation? Stay in here
Be faithful to me

QUASIMODO
I'm faithful

FROLLO
Grateful to me

QUASIMODO
I'm grateful

FROLLO
Do as I say, obey, and stay

QUASIMODO
I'll stay

FROLLO
In here

QUASIMODO
In here

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 weavers and their wives
Through the roofs and gables I can see them
Ev'ry day 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 ev'ry instant

Out there, strolling by the Seine, taste a morning
Out there, like ordinary man, 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