The Wizard And I (From "Wicked" Original Broadway Cast Recording/2003) - Carole Shelley

[00:02.05](spoken) Oh, Miss Elphaba:
[00:02.72](sung) Many years I have waited
[00:06.19]For a gift like yours to appear
[00:09.98]Why, I predict the Wizard
[00:12.01]Could make you his
[00:13.82]Magic grand vizier!
[00:17.70]My dear, my dear
[00:20.66]I'll write at once to the Wizard
[00:23.74]Tell him of you in advance
[00:27.85]With a talent like yours, dear
[00:30.36]There is a defin-ish chance
[00:33.73]If you work as you should
[00:40.03]You'll be making good:
[00:42.47]
[00:44.30]ELPHABA
[00:51.34]Did that really just happen?
[00:54.22]Have I actually understood?
[00:57.45]This weird quirk I've tried
[00:59.36]To suppress or hide
[01:01.43]Is a talent that could
[01:04.39]Help me meet the Wizard
[01:09.36]If I make good
[01:15.53]So I'll make good:
[01:18.23]
[01:24.11]When I meet the Wizard
[01:27.55]Once I prove my worth
[01:30.97]And then I meet the Wizard
[01:33.55]What I've waited for since: since birth!
[01:37.05]And with all his Wizard wisdom
[01:40.38]By my looks, he won't be blinded
[01:43.89]Do you think the Wizard is dumb?
[01:47.16]Or, like Munchkins, so small-minded?
[01:50.29]No! He'll say to me,
[01:51.94]"I see who you truly are -
[01:54.36]A girl on whom I can rely!"
[01:57.56]And that's how we'll begin
[02:00.56]The Wizard and I:
[02:04.14]
[02:08.57]Once I'm with the Wizard
[02:11.92]My whole life will change
[02:15.07]'Cuz once you're with the Wizard
[02:18.39]No one thinks you're strange!
[02:21.31]No father is not proud of you,
[02:24.72]No sister acts ashamed
[02:28.57]And all of Oz has to love you
[02:31.50]When by the Wizard you're acclaimed
[02:35.23]And this gift - or this curse -
[02:37.69]I have inside
[02:38.97]Maybe at last, I'll know why
[02:42.05]When we are hand and hand -
[02:45.05]The Wizard and I!
[02:47.05]
[02:49.35]And one day, he'll say to me, "Elphaba,
[02:52.53]A girl who is so superior
[02:55.98]Shouldn't a girl who's so good inside
[02:59.38]Have a matching exterior?
[03:02.32]And since folks here to an absurd degree
[03:05.30]Seem fixated on your verdigris
[03:08.78]Would it be all right by you
[03:12.97]If I de-greenify you?"
[03:17.82]
[03:18.54]And though of course
[03:19.89]That's not important to me
[03:21.85]"All right, why not?" I'll reply
[03:24.93]Oh, what a pair we'll be
[03:27.63]The Wizard and I:
[03:31.66]Yes, what a pair we'll be
[03:34.24]The Wizard and:
[03:37.45]
[03:39.89]Unlimited
[03:43.46]My future is unlimited
[03:48.20]And I've just had a vision
[03:49.70]Almost like a prophecy
[03:52.98]I know - it sounds truly crazy
[03:58.15]And true, the vision's hazy
[04:01.15]But I swear, someday there'll be
[04:05.00]A celebration throughout Oz
[04:08.61]That's all to do with me!
[04:12.32]
[04:19.68]And I'll stand there with the Wizard
[04:24.55]Feeling things I've never felt
[04:28.90]And though I'd never show it
[04:31.41]I'll be so happy, I could melt!
[04:34.93]And so it will be
[04:36.22]For the rest of my life
[04:37.87]And I'll want nothing else
[04:39.39]Till I die
[04:40.98]Held in such high esteem
[04:43.96]When people see me, they will scream
[04:47.09]For half of Oz's fav'rite team:
[04:53.18]The Wizard
[04:55.40]And I!