Ryan's Magical Symphony
Song #5
The journey continues to Paris to Norta Dame. Ryan enters the scene. He looks at the bells. "Whoa! This is amazing. I wonder if there's anyone who can-Wait! Who's that?" He walks to Quasimodo, where he starts to sing. Ryan hides.
Safe behind these windows and these parapets of stone
Gazing at the people down below me
Quasi stand on the rim and looks down. So does Ryan.
All my life I watch them as I hide up here alone
Hungry for the histories they show me
All my life I memorize their faces
Knowing them as they will never know me
All my life I wonder how it feels to pass a day
Not above them
But part of them
"Uh. Excuse me." Ryan tries to call him.
And out there
Living in the sun
"Wait! Where are you going?" Ryan follows him as Quasi slides down the colume.
Give me one day out there
All I ask is one
To hold forever
Out there
Where they all live unaware
What I'd give
What I'd dare
Just to live one day out there
Quasi looks out to the town. Ryan sees him. "There is he!"
Out there among the millers and the weavers and their wives
Through the roofs and gables I can see them
Ev'ry day they shout and scold and go about their lives
Heedless of the gift it is to be them
If I was in their skin
I'd treasure ev'ry instant
Ryan tries to reach him, but when he looks at the town below, he starts to lose his balance. Quasi slides on the water. "Hey! Wait!"
Out there
Strolling by the Seine
Taste a morning out there
Ryan sees him near the top. He starts to climb after him.
Like ordinary men
Who freely walk about there
Just one day and then
I swear I'll be content
With my share
Ryan finally gets to the top, but when he sees Quasi already down, Ryan slides down.
Won't resent
Won't despair
Old and bent
I won't care
I'll have spent
One day
Out there
By the end of the song, Ryan is hanging out on the roof. "Phew." But suddenly, he falls in.