defying gravity

1. lit : flying
2. an absurdly rebellious act
3. a song sung by a morally superior 'wicked' witch

that's like defying gravity, well more like falling with style

by irh November 9, 2009

defying gravity

possibly the best song in the popular broadway musical "Wicked," this song is sung by Idina Menzel and gave me goosebumps the first time I heard it. There are parts for Kristen Chenowith as well. it's right before the intermission and is sung when Elphaba is escaping from the Wizard guards. It's amazing, especially when you see the show in person

GLINDA

(spoken) Elphaba - why couldn't you have stayed calm for

once, instead of flying off the handle!

(sung) I hope you're happy!

I hope you're happy now

I hope you're happy how you

Hurt your cause forever

I hope you think you're clever!

ELPHABA

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

BOTH

So though I can't imagine how

I hope you're happy right now

GLINDA

(spoken) Elphie, listen to me. Just say you're sorry:

(sung) You can still be with the Wizard

What you've worked and waited for

You can have all you ever wanted:

ELPHABA

(spoken) I know:

(sung) But I don't want it -

No - I can't want it

Anymore:

Something has changed within me

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!

GLINDA

Can't I make you understand?

You're having delusions of grandeur:

ELPHABA

I'm through accepting limits

''cause someone says they're so

Some things I cannot change

But till 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:

(spoken) Glinda - come with me. Think of what we could

do: together.

(sung) Unlimited

Together we're unlimited

Together we'll be the greatest team

There's ever been

Glinda -

Dreams, the way we planned 'em

GLINDA

If we work in tandem:

BOTH

There's no fight we cannot win

Just you and I

Defying gravity

With you and I

Defying gravity

ELPHABA

They'll never bring us down!

(spoken) Well? Are you coming?

GLINDA

I hope you're happy

Now that you're choosing this

ELPHABA

(spoken) You too

(sung) I hope it brings you bliss

BOTH

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:

ELPHABA So if you care to find me

Look to the western sky!

As someone told me lately:

"Ev'ryone 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 am

Defying gravity

I'm flying high

Defying gravity

And soon I'll match them in renown

And nobody in all of Oz

No Wizard that there is or was

Is ever gonna bring me down!

GLINDA

I hope you're happy!

CITIZENS OF OZ

Look at her, she's wicked!

Get her!

ELPHABA

:Bring me down!

CITIZENS OF OZ

No one mourns the wicked

So we've got to bring her

ELPHABA

Woa-oh-ohhhh!

CITIZENS OF OZ

Down!

(thanks to metrolyrics for these lyrics)

by skyscout June 4, 2009

gravity

1.The force of attraction of a huge (often celestial) body and any smaller/larger (sometimes celestials) bodies in the area. Not to be confused with the attraction between to bodies due to magnetic forces.
2. In short, the greatest enemy of clumsy people.

1. The sun has the strongest gravity in our solar system.

2. Guy 1: Oh, look at Jerry! He fell down! 3rd time today.
Guy 2: Poor guy. Gravity has a grudge on him.

by Armthehobos August 3, 2007

Doug Graves

member of American punk band "White Flag" (bass, vocals)

Who has the better name - Doug Graves or Paul Bearer?

by yorrick hunt February 1, 2008

Graviton

A hypothetical spin-2 massless boson which is responsible for the gravitational fields we experience everyday. The graviton is the quantum particle of gravity.

Particle colliders have yet to find a single graviton.

by A.froman September 3, 2010

gravestone

Where I live because I have no life

My gravestone will be marked with “but i didn’t die though it was only a joke”

by Helpmeimdyinginside December 31, 2017

gravitarian

gra·vi·tar·ian
/gra-və-ˈter-ē-ən/
noun

a person of serious bearing who eschews frivolity; not to be confused with a "wet blanket"

He doesn't participate in hijinks because he's a gravitarian.

by Ceifaero October 24, 2019