Normal, a song I wrote for Disney’s the Hunchback of Notre Dame by Ellen

Normal, a song I wrote for Disney’s the Hunchback of Notre Dame by Ellen

Quasi Speaks to himself: Normal! Ha! He’ll see who’s normal. Master always says I’m not but what really is normal? (Grabs Dictionary) N-n-normal, there it is! Let’s see… To be alike everyone else, never apart from any crowd, see also similar, ordinary, regular…oh. Well, Master must be right then. I am not normal. I am deformed and ugly, a….a….a….monster.

(Singing)

Monster? Is that really the best you can do, God? I know deep down inside me I am normal, whatever normal is. Down there, are they normal? For what really is normal, I don’t know… Is normal to be perfect? Is normal to be ordinary? I don’t know….I don’t know much but this is something that only God knows for sure…

I’m sure if people saw beyond me

I’m sure they’d see one of them

Of course my face is not the prettiest

My back is hunched, ain’t hard to see

But if they talked to me for just a second

I’m sure they see me as normal!

I am not a monster! No-siree! I am beautiful, kind and wonderful, God is that you how see me? I am in only your image, I talk only with your words, am I so monstrous now? If only one person could see behind they’d see someone who is normal…

I’m sure if people saw beyond me

I’m sure they’d see one of them

Of course my face is not the prettiest

My back is hunched, ain’t hard to see

But if they talked to me for just a second

I’m sure they see me as normal!

I know I shouldn’t dare to dream, that Esmerelda might love me… but when she looked at me, she didn’t see what anyone else saw, she saw, what I saw, I am normal!!!