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:
I'll stay
In here


Quasimodo:
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

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 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