Defying Gravity – simplified

Defying GravityWicked

Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth, 2003.

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, 2024.

Writer: Stephen Schwartz

Label: Decca Broadway

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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

I’m through accepting limits

’cause someone says they’re so.
Some things I cannot change,

but ’til 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

Unlimited
Together we’re

unlimited.
Together, we’ll be the greatest team there’s ever been.

Glinda,
dreams the way we planned ’em,
if we work in tandem,
there’s no fight we cannot win.

Just you and I defying gravity,
with you and I defying gravity,
they’ll never bring us down.

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.

bring me down.


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