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've taught you, Quasimodo
You are deformed (I am deformed)
And you are ugly (And I am ugly)
And these are crimes for which the world shows little pity
You do not comprehend
(You are my one defender)
Out there they'll revile you as a monster
(I am a monster)
Out there they will hate and scorn and jeer
(Only a monster)
Why invite their calumny and consternation
Stay in here
Be faithful to me (I'm faithful)
Grateful to me (I'm grateful)
Do as I say
Obey
And stay 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 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 every 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
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