Tragedy

Sorry.
I'm only human.
You know me.
Grown up- oh,  no.
Guess again.
 
My days always dry up and blow away.
Sometimes I could do that, too.

But make no mistake.

When you need a friend, you could count on anyone.
But you know I'll defend the tragedy that we knew as the end.

Progress, changing.
Growing, then giving up.
Somehow we're never quite prepared.

But I understand it.

When you need a friend, you could count on anyone.
But you know I'll defend the tragedy that we knew as the end.

So, taking you with me would be like  taking all your money to the grave.
It does no good to anyone.
Especially the one you're trying to save.

But it's so hard not to save.

When you need a friend, you could count on anyone.
But you know I'll defend the tragedy that we knew as the end.

You know I'll defend the tragedy that we knew as the end.

Looking for Trouble

Trouble is his only friend and he's back again.
Makes his body older than it really is.
He says it's high time he went away; no one's got much to say in this town.
Trouble is the only way is down.
Down, down.

As strong as you were, tender you'll go.
I'm watching you breathing for the last time.
A song for your heart, but when it is quiet,
I know what it means and I'll carry you home.
I'll carry you home.

If he had wings he would fly away, and another day God will give him some.
Trouble is the only way is down.
Down, down.

As strong as you were, tender you'll go.
I'm watching you breathing for the last time.
A song for your heart, but when it is quiet,
I know what it means and I'll carry you home.
I'll carry you home.

And they were all born pretty in New York City tonight.
And someone's little girl was taken from the world tonight, under the Stars and Stripes.

As strong as you were, tender you go.
I'm watching you breathing for the last time.
A song for your heart, but when it is quiet,
I know what it means and I'll carry you home.

I'll carry you home.

- - -

Expectations are gone, and I don't know who I am anymore.

From the moment I sent the text, I knew what would happen.

Knew what kind of unfulfilled emptiness I was doomed to repeat yet again.

But I still pursued.

This casual business has gotten me nowhere before, and it's getting me nowhere now.

I can only think of two things:

1) Old habits die hard, and
2) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Problem is I can remember my past; I just choose to ignore it.

Shiver

Natalie Imbruglia - Shiver

Awesome.

So Tell Me When You Hear My Heart Stop

Lykke Li // Possibility

This song has been haunting me for the past few days.

Call It Off

Maybe I would've been something you'd be good at.

- Tegan & Sara

Ballad

Meat Loaf – I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)

(lyrics)

Defying Gravity

GLINDA:
Elphaba- why couldn't you have stayed calm for once, instead of flying off the handle!
I hope you're happy!
I hope you're happy now.
I hope you're happy how you hurt your cause forever.
I hope you think you're clever!

ELPHABA:
I hope you're happy.
I hope you're happy, too.
I hope you're proud how you would grovel in submission to feed your own ambition.

BOTH:
So though I can't imagine how, I hope you're happy right now.

GLINDA:
Elphie, listen to me.
Just say you're sorry.
You can still be with the Wizard, what you've worked and waited for.
You can have all you ever wanted.

ELPHABA:
I  know.
But I don't want it.
No- 
I can't want it anymore.
(beat)
Something has changed within me.
Something is not the same.
I'm through with playing by the rules of someone else's game.
Too late for second-guessing.
Too late to go back to sleep.
It's time to trust my instincts, close my eyes, and leap…
It's time to try defying gravity.
I think I'll try defying gravity, and you can't pull me down!

GLINDA:
Can't I make you understand?
You're having delusions of grandeur.

ELPHABA:
I'm through accepting limits 'cause someone says they're so.
Some things I cannot change, but till I try, I'll never know!
Too long I've been afraid of losing love I guess I've lost.
Well, if that's love, it comes at much too high a cost!
I'd sooner buy defying gravity.
Kiss me goodbye.
I'm defying gravity.
And you can't pull me down!
(beat)
Glinda, come with me.
Think of what we could do- together.
Unlimited.
Together, we're unlimited.
Together, we'll be the greatest team there's ever been.
Glinda-
Dreams, the way we planned them.

GLINDA:
If we work in tandem.

BOTH:
There's no fight we cannot win. 
Just you and I defying gravity.
With you and I, defying gravity.

ELPHABA:
They'll never bring us down.
(beat)
Well? Are you coming?

GLINDA:
I hope you're happy, now that you're choosing this.

ELPHABA:
You, too.
(beat)
I hope it brings you bliss.

BOTH:
I really hope you get it, and you don't live to regret it.
I hope you're happy in the end.
I hope you're happy, my friend.

ELPHABA:
So if you care to find me, look to the western sky! 
As someone told me lately:
"Everyone deserves the chance to fly!"
And if I'm flying solo,  at least I'm flying free.
To those who'd ground me, take a message back from me.
Tell them how I am defying gravity.
I'm flying high, defying gravity.
And soon I'll match them in renown.
And nobody in all of Oz, no Wizard that there is or was, is ever gonna bring me down!

GLINDA:
I hope you're happy!

CITIZENS OF OZ:
Look at her, she's wicked!
Get her!
No one mourns the wicked.
So we've got to bring her down!

I Thought That You'd Want What I Want