What Is This Feeling? (From "Wicked" Original Broadway Cast Recording/2003) - Kristin Chenoweth

[00:00.60]GALINDA
[00:00.98]Dearest darlingest Momsie and Popsical...
[00:04.30]ELPHABA
[00:04.88]My dear Father...
[00:06.00]BOTH
[00:06.13]THERE'S BEEN SOME CONFUSION
[00:07.81]OVER ROOMING HERE AT SHIZ ...
[00:10.30]ELPHABA
[00:10.78]BUT OF COURSE, I'LL CARE FOR NESSA ...
[00:12.40]GALINDA
[00:13.04]BUT OF COURSE, I'LL RISE ABOVE IT ...
[00:16.00]BOTH
[00:16.35]FOR I KNOW THAT'S HOW YOU'D WANT ME TO RESPOND
[00:20.34]YES, THERE'S BEEN SOME CONFUSION
[00:24.09]FOR YOU SEE, MY ROOM-MATE IS …
[00:27.00]Both pause, regard each other, trying to find the words ...
[00:29.00]GALINDA
[00:29.32]UNUSUALLY AND EXCEEDINGLY PECULIAR
[00:32.78]AND ALTOGETHER QUITE IMPOSSIBLE TO DESCRIBE ...
[00:38.20]ELPHABA(after a beat)
[00:38.98]BLONDE.
[00:47.20]GALINDA
[00:47.68]WHAT IS THIS FEELING
[00:49.09]SO SUDDEN AND NEW?
[00:50.20]ELPHABA
[00:50.85]I FELT THE MOMENT
[00:52.37]I LAID EYES ON YOU ...
[00:53.30]GALINDA
[00:53.79]MY PULSE IS RUSHING ...
[00:55.20]ELPHABA
[00:55.64]MY HEAD IS REELING ...
[00:57.00]GALINDA
[00:57.30]MY FACE IS FLUSHING ...
[00:58.00]BOTH
[00:58.31]WHAT IS THIS FEELING?
[00:59.96]FERVID AS A FLAME
[01:03.03]DOES IT HAVE A NAME?
[01:06.07]YES!:
[01:12.43]LOATHING
[01:13.85]UNADULTERATED LOATHING ...
[01:16.80]GALINDA
[01:17.16]FOR YOUR FACE...
[01:18.20]ELPHABA
[01:18.68]YOUR VOICE ...
[01:19.00]GALINDA
[01:19.46]YOUR CLOTHING ...
[01:20.10]BOTH
[01:20.67]LET'S JUST SAY -- I LOATHE IT ALL!
[01:24.10]EV'RY LITTLE TRAIT, HOWEVER SMALL
[01:27.21]MAKES MY VERY FLESH BEGIN TO CRAWL
[01:29.84]WITH SIMPLE UTTER LOATHING
[01:32.84]THERE'S A STRANGE EXHILARATION
[01:35.90]IN SUCH TOTAL DETESTATION
[01:39.54]IT'S SO PURE! SO STRONG!
[01:43.04]THOUGH I DO ADMIT IT CAME ON FAST
[01:46.24]STILL I DO BELIEVE THAT IT CAN LAST
[01:49.42]AND I WILL BE LOATHING
[01:51.67]LOATHING YOU
[01:53.29]MY WHOLE LIFE LONG!
[01:57.00]STUDENTS
[01:57.25]DEAR GALINDA, YOU ARE JUST TOO GOOD!
[02:00.02]HOW DO YOU STAND IT? I DON'T THINK I COULD!
[02:02.75]SHE'S A TERROR! SHE'S A TARTAR!
[02:04.29]WE DON'T MEAN TO SHOW A BIAS
[02:06.09]BUT GALINDA YOU'RE A MARTYR!
[02:08.14]WELL ... THESE THINGS ARE SENT TO TRY US!
[02:14.80]STUDENTS
[02:15.15]POOR GALINDA, FORCED TO RESIDE
[02:17.90]GALINDA
[02:17.95]WITH SOMEONE SO DISGUSTICIFIED
[02:20.95]WE JUST WANT TO TELL YOU:
[02:22.98]WE'RE ALL ON YOUR SIDE!
[02:26.49]WE SHARE YOUR ...
[02:27.00]GALINDA AND ELPHABA sing simultaneously with students
[02:27.69]WHAT IS THIS FEELING LOATHING
[02:28.99]SO SUDDEN AND NEW? UNADULTERATED LOATHING
[02:31.02]I FELT THE MOMENT FOR HER FACE, HER VOICE
[02:32.53]I LAID EYES ON YOU HER CLOTHING
[02:34.06]MY PULSE IS RUSHING LET'S JUST SAY:
[02:35.51]MY HEAD IS REELING WE LOATHE IT ALL!
[02:39.13]OH, WHAT IS THIS FEELING? EV'RY LITTLE TRAIT
[02:42.53]DOES IT HAVE A NAME? HOWEVER SMALL
[02:45.39]YES … MAKES OUR VERY FLESH
[02:46.00]BEGIN TO CRAWL …
[02:46.80]ALL:
[02:47.22]AHHH …
[02:49.52]LOATHING!
[02:53.40]GALINDA AND ELPHABA:
[02:54.00](Here students sing "Loathing" in counter point a number of times)
[02:54.36]THERE'S A STRANGE EXHILARATION
[02:56.08]IN SUCH TOTAL DETESTATION
[02:58.32]SO PURE, SO STRONG!
[03:00.30]STUDENTS
[03:00.87]SO STRONG!
[03:02.00]GALINDA AND ELPHABA(Students sing back-up "loathing")
[03:02.27]THOUGH I DO ADMIT IT CAME ON FAST
[03:04.61]STILL I DO BELIEVE THAT IT CAN LAST ALL
[03:07.65]AND I WILL BE LOATHING
[03:09.84]FOR FOREVER LOATHING
[03:13.73]TRULY, DEEPLY LOATHING YOU LOATHING YOU
[03:19.80]FOR MY WHOLE LIFE LONG!
[03:24.00]STUDENTS:
[03:24.35]UNADULTERATED LOATHING
[03:27.30]ELPHABA
[03:27.72]BOO!