Made of Stone is Quasimodo’s despair song from the stage musical version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The song is lifted from the movie when the  gargoyles are trying to convince Quasimodo to save Esmeralda who is moments away from her death. In the musical this scene occurs the night before Esmeralda is to be sentenced and instead of a short scene between the gargoyles and Quasimodo we have a song.

This song is Quasimodo at his angriest and most broken hearted. He is clearly angry at the gargoyles as they don’t understand his pain as they are made of stone and he wishes he was like them. He regrets his emotions and wishes they would go away.

Lyrics

Quasimodo: I'm not going outside any more.

It always ends badly when I go outside.

Always badly!

Laverne: My boy, it didn't go so

Quasimodo: What do you know of me?

What of the pain

That tears my heart apart?

You're only made of stone

You stand there stupidly

You'll never know what it's like

To be made of flesh and blood

Victor: But Quasimodo, you're still

Quasimodo: Only words! You don't know what I amand what I suffer

You can't suspect how much

I envy you

How I wish

I were made of stone too

Hugo: You take everything far too hard

Quasimodo: Spare me your tricks!

Of course your words

Can change reality

What's the point of it?

Laverne: Quasimodo

Quasimodo: And you, "Fairy Godmother"! Why did you let me see

Those dreams of happiness?They held only scorn for me

No more to feel And no more to think, would be a blessing

To be a stone figure, letting the rain

Pour down

Upon a stone city

No! Too long I believed, that the stones

Held friendly spirits

But the only one I can trust now Is my master

He always used to say:

"The world hates ugliness,So darkness is your lot!"

A sentence cold as stone.

But still true

Cold and clear

You fed me hypocrisy.Now go away

And leave me alone!

Hugo: All right, Quasimodo

You're alone now

Victor: We're going, Quasimodo

We won't make any fuss

Laverne: It's true, Quasimodo

We're only made of stone

Gargoyles: But we thought

What you were made of was

Stronger,

Quasimodo: Now I'm completely alone

And "Out There"

Doesn't concern me any longer

I'll cast my longing aside

Forget what happened Never cry again

Not exist at all Through and through

As if of stone

Trivia

• The title Wie aus Stein (Made of Stone) is taken from the original book when Quasimodo mournfully asks why he wasn’t made of stone. He’s not exactly angry in the book but more sad that he is in love with Esmeralda and can’t really do anything about it.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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