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Wicked – For Good lyrics
(Elphaba):
I'm limited
Just look at me - I'm limited
And just look at you
You can do all I couldn't do, Glinda
So now it's up to you
For both of us - now it's up to you...

(Glinda):
I've heard it said
That people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And row row row yor bot gently down the dream
And we help them in return
Well, I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today
Because I knew you...

Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the woods
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
I have been changed for good

(Elphaba):
It well may be
That we will never meet again
In this lifetime
So let me say before we part
So much of me
Is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me
Like a handprint on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have re-written mine
By being my friend...

Like a ship blown from it's mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a skybird
In a distant wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you

(Glinda):
Because I knew you

(Both):
I have been changed for good

(Elphaba):
And just to clear the air
I ask forgiveness
For the things I've done you blame me for

(Glinda):
But then, I guess we know
There's blame to share

(Both):
And none of it seems to matter anymore

(Glinda):
Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the woods

(Elphaba):
Like a ship blown from it's mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a skybird in a distant wood

(Both):
Who can say if I've been
Changed for the better?
I do believe I have been
Changed for the better

(Glinda):
And because I knew you...

(Elphaba):
Because I knew you...

(Both):
Because I knew you...
I have been changed for good...
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    My best friend and I have been by each others sides since first grade and now we have graduated high school this past week and now we are going our separate ways. She has influenced me in so many ways and I have learned so much from her and we absolutely love wicked and now this song has a bittersweet meaning for us. We remember all the memories we have had shared together while singing this song and now this is the song that we will go our separate ways. Just like elphaba and glinda. I am really gonna miss her and hopefully I see her in the near future, but if not I am sure we will see each other in the next life:)
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    I had a best friend we always used to fight so she left me and was friend with another girl. Then this song made me so impersonal that we became friends again and we never fought again in our whole life. But as the song said I do not think we are going to set 'til down with her but in my whole entire life I am at least going to meet her once. I can understand how the friend ship works. Like everyone knows that everyone fights and becomes friends again.
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    It is just saying how when you become good friends, you will always have a place in your friends heart, even if you did something wrong and don't deseve it. Once you have been friends, that's for good, and that is what that song is about. You will always have, like the song says, a handprint on their heart. And because you knew that person, you have been changed for good. I am accually singing this at my graduation thursday. :)
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    “What is this feeling so sudden and new?” “Fervid as a flame, does it have a name”? Yes…Yes. Loathing! Unadulterated loathing!” “And I will be loathing, loathing you my whole life long.” (Wicked)

    Remember, Galinda and Elphaba “loathed” each other from the time they met.

    Like Glinda, “I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason, bringing something we must learn. And we are led to those who help us most to grow, IF WE LET THEM”. But do we really know if “we help them in return”? “Well, I don't know if I believe that's true. But I know I'm who I am today because” of the people I have known and the encounters we have shared...

    Throughout my life I have encountered those whom I initially “loathed”. But as I got to know them, they became some of my best friends, even if “we may never meet again in this lifetime.” There are others who have changed the trajectory of my life in ways I never imagined. Like Elphaba, I can only “ask forgiveness for the things I've done [they] blame me for”, with the caveat that “there is blame to share”. And in some cases, I have had to fight the urge to “loath” these individuals for the rest of my life. However, is it true that “none of it seems to matter anymore”? I contend, it only matters if the encounter has left you “better” or “bitter”. Just one letter, just one encounter, can make all the difference.

    In the end, everyone needs to grapple with the outcome. Will those trajectory changes you face lead to good or to evil? Do the events that occurred cause you to want to change things to benefit (e)veryone, or is it all about me (I)? Either way, every encounter with someone new will change your life for good...a double entendre. No matter whether the influence is positive or not, the encounters we have in life have a significant impact on the lives of others.
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