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Track: Defying Gravity
Artist: Cynthia Erivo
Album: Wicked: The Soundtrack

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Name: Cynthia Erivo
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Cynthia Erivo (/əˈriːvoʊ/;[1] born 8 January 1987) is an English actress, singer and songwriter. She is the recipient of several accolades, including a Daytime Emmy Award, a Grammy Award and a Tony Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Erivo began acting in a 2011 stage production of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. She gained recognition for starring in the Broadway revival of The Color Purple from 2015 to 2017, for which she won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. Erivo ventured into films in 2018, playing roles in the heist film Widows and the thriller Bad Times at the El Royale. For her portrayal of American abolitionist Harriet Tubman in the biopic Harriet (2019), Erivo received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress; she also wrote and performed the song "Stand Up" on its soundtrack, which garnered her a nomination in the Best Original Song category. On television, Erivo had her first role in the British series Chewing Gum (2015). She went on to star in the crime drama miniseries The Outsider (2020), and received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for her portrayal of American singer Aretha Franklin in National Geographic's anthology series Genius: Aretha (2021).

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Release: Cynthia Erivo Ft. Ariana Grande - Defying Gravity
Year: 2025
Genres: Stage & Screen
Styles: Soundtrack, Musical

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LYRICS

Elphaba
Why couldn't you have stayed calm for once
Instead of flying off the handle?
I hope you’re happy
I hope you're happy now
I hope you're happy how you’ve hurt your cause forever
I hope you think you're clever

I hope you're happy

I hope you're happy too
I hope you're proud how you would
Grovel in submission to feed your own ambition

So though I can't imagine how
I hope you're happy right now

Elphie, listen to me
Just say you're sorry

You can still be with the Wizard
What you’ve worked and waited for
You can have all you ever wantеd

I know

But I don’t want it
No, I can't want it anymore
Something has changed within mе
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

Can't I make you understand
You're having delusions of grandeur?

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

Come with me
Think of what we could do together

Unlimited
Together, we're unlimited
Together, we'll be the greatest team there's ever been, Glinda
Dreams the way we planned them

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

Are you coming?

I hope you're happy
Now that you're choosing this

You, too

I hope it brings you bliss

I really hope you get it
And you don't live to regret it
I hope you're happy in the end
I hope you're happy, my friend

No, leave her alone!
She hasn't done anything wrong
I'm the one you want
I'm the one you want
It's me

It's me
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'm defying gravity
I'm flying high, defying gravity
And soon, I'll match them in renown
Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited
And nobody in all of Oz
No wizard that there is or was
Is ever gonna bring me down

I hope you're happy

Look at her! She's wicked!
Get her!

No one mourns the wicked (Bring me down)
So we've got to bring her

Oh

Down
Down
Woah