Out There
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Out There is a song sung by Claude Frollo and Quasimodo from Disney's 1996 feature film The Hunchback of Notre Dame. It begins with a dark introduction by Frollo, telling Quasimodo stay up in the tower where he will not be reviled as a monster. This introduction features a beautiful weaving of two counter melodies sung by Frollo and Quasimodo. A clever use of the phrase "Stay In Here" brings the text of the rest of the song into contrast, "Out There."
Once the judge leaves the scene, everything seems so much brighter and Quasi sings to his gargoyle friends of his dreams of leaving the belltower and leading a normal life amongst the people he sees every day. This song may have been what finally convinced him to escape down into the Festival of Fools.
This song was included on the tape, Disney Sing-Along Songs: Topsy Turvy, however the introduction was edited out. This may have been to make the song seem less dark for younger audiences.
Lyrics
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
Remember what I taught you, Quasimodo
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
In here
Quasimodo: You are good to me, master.
I'm sorry.
Frollo: You are forgiven.
But remember, Quasimodo, this is your sanctuary.
Quasimodo: My sanctuary.
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
Every 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 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
Trivia
- At one point during the song, Belle from Beauty and the Beast, the Magic Carpet from Aladdin, and Pumbaa from The Lion King can be seen in the village.
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