Defying Gravity (feat. Ariana Grande & Cynthia Erivo)
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Intro
Elphaba
Why couldn't you have stayed calm for once
Instead of flying off the handle?
C
I hope you’re happy
Bm
I hope you're happy now
Bb A
I hope you're happy how you’ve hurt your cause forever
Bb
I hope you think you're clever
B
I hope you're happy
Bb
I hope you're happy too
A
I hope you're proud how you would
G# A
Grovel in submission to feed your own ambition
Bb F
So though I can't imagine how
Bm7 E A D
I hope you're happy right now
D#
Elphie, listen to me
G#
Just say you're sorry
D# G# Bb
You can still be with the Wizard
D# G# Bb
What you’ve worked and waited for
Cm Gm7
You can have all you ever wantеd
I know
G#
But I don’t want it
Fm Bb Gm C F
No, I can't want it a--nymore
[Verso 1]
C F
Something has changed within mе
C F
Something is not the same
C F
I’m through with playing by
C Bb
The rules of someone else's game
C
Too late for second-guessing
Bb C
Too late to go back to sleep
F C
It's time to trust my instincts
F G4 G
Close my eyes, and leap
Am F G
It's time to try defying gravity
Am F G
I think I’ll try defying gravity
C
And you can't pull me down
[Verso 2]
F C
Can't I make you understand
F
You're having delusions of grandeur?
C F G
I'm through accepting limits
C F C
'Cause someone says they're so
F G
Some things I cannot change
C/E F Bb
But 'til I try, I'll never know
C
Too long I've been afraid of
Bb C
Losing love, I guess I've lost
Dm C/E
Well, if that's love
F G4 G
It comes at much too high a cost
Am F G
I'd sooner buy defying gravity
Am F G
Kiss me goodbye, I'm defying gravity
Bb
And you can't pull me down
Come with me
F
Think of what we could do together
F
Unlimited
C Dm Bb C F
Together, we're unli-mited
Bb Am Dm Bbm
Together we'll be the greatest team there's ever been, Glinda
F/A Bb
Dreams the way we planned 'em
F Bb
If we work in tandem
G# C#
There's no fight we cannot win
Am F G
Just you and I defying gravity
Am F G
With you and I defying gravity
C F D# F C/E F
They'll never bring us down
[Verso 3]
Dm/A Bb C
Are you coming?
I hope you're happy
Bm
Now that you're choosing this
You, too
Bb
I hope it brings you bliss
A
I really hope you get it
Bb
And you don't live to regret it
B F#
I hope you're happy in the end
Cm F Bb D#
I hope you're happy, my friend
C
No, leave her alone!
F
She hasn't done anything wrong
I'm the one you want
I'm the one you want
It's me
It's me
[Verso 4]
C F C
So if you care to find me
F C
Look to the western sky
F G
As someone told me lately
F Dm C/E C Bb
"Everyone deserves the chance to fly"
C
And if I'm flying solo
Bb C
At least, I'm flying free
Dm C/E
To those who'd ground me
F G Gm
Take a message back from me
Am F G
Tell them how I'm defying gravity
Am F G
I'm flying high, defying gravity
Am Fm/Bb Fm
And soon, I'll match them in renown
Final
Bm G#m Bm
F
Unlimited
G
Unlimited
Bb Bb/G#
Unlimited
F C
And nobody in all of Oz
Gm C
No wizard that there is or was
Fm C G Am
Is ever gonna bring me down
I hope you're happy
Look at her! She's wicked!
Get her!
Am
No one mourns the wicked (Bring me down)
F D# C# B
So we've got to bring her
Oh
C F
Down
C
Down
C
Woah
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