Songs That I Like

Made of Stone ~ from "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"

{spoken}
[various gargoyles]:
quasimodo you must try to free yourself!
the girl needs your help!

[quasimodo]:
quiet! go away!

[gargoyle]:
you're the only one who can save her now

[quasimodo]:
you know what happens when i try to help.
i only make things worse.

[all gargoyles]:
you don't believe that!

[quasimodo]:
how do you know what i believe?
{sang}
what do you know of me?
what do you know of all the things i feel?
you're only made of stone!
who is it that you see.
instead of seeing what i am for real?
this twisted flesh and bone

[gargoyle]:
{spoken}
but quasimodo it wasn't your fault!

[quasimodo]:
{sang}
you're a liar!
with every new excuse you try out,
you only make me want to cry out
would that i were,
made of stone
like you!

[various gargoyles]:
{spoken}
you don't mean that!
just take some time to-

[quasimodo]:
{sang}
you give such good advice,
so why has not one single word you've said,
been any help at all?

[all gargoyles]:
{spoken}
quasimodo!

[quasimodo]:
{sang}
and you who sound so nice,
the more your dreams and fancies fill my head,
the farther that i fall.
shut my brain down!
if i were senseless, i'd prefer it
another gargoyle on this turret
spitting rain down,
on the stones below!

i've wasted my faith, believing in saints of plaster
when the only one worth believing in was my master!
he's the one who never lied
he told me it was cruel outside
he told me how i had to hide
his words were cold as stone;
but they were true.
not like you.
take all the dreams you've sown,
take all your lies and leave me,
alone!

[various gargoyles]:
alright quasimodo, we'll leave you alone.
alright quasimodo, we'll trouble you no longer.
you're right, quasimodo, we're only made of stone.

[all gargoyles]:
we just thought that you were made of something,
stronger.

[quasimodo]:
and now i'm on my own,
never again to wonder what's "out there"
let it remain unknown!
and my one human eye,
will evermore be dry,
until the day i die!
as if i
were made of
stone!