Chords:
Cmaj7 Bmaj7 Bbmaj7 Dmaj7 C#maj7 Cmaj7 Bmaj7 Fadd9 Fsus2 C*
X X X 5 4 3 2 3 1 0
8 7 6 7 6 5 4 1 1 1
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 0 0
9 8 7 7 6 5 4 3 3 0
X X X 5 4 3 2 X 3 3
8 7 6 X 4 3 2 1 1 3
Capo 1 to match recorded pitch
[Intro]
Cmaj7
I hope you're happy
B
I hope you're happy now
Bbmaj7
I hope you're happy how you
A
Hurt your cause forever
Bb B
I hope you think you're clever
Bmaj7
I hope you're happy
Bb
I hope you're happy too
Amaj7
I hope you're proud how you
G#
Would grovel in submission
A Bb
To feed your own ambition
Bbmaj7 Dmaj7
So though I can't imagine how
A
I hope you're happy right now
e|-5-----------5-----|
B|-5-------------9-5-|
G|-6-----------------|
D|-7-----------------|
A|-7--------7--------|
E|-5—-5-4-5----------|
(Elphie, listen to me - just say you're sorry...)
D# D#sus2 Bb
You can still be with the wizard
D# D#sus2 Bb
What you've worked and waited for
D# Bb
You can have all you ever wanted
D#sus2 Bb C
(I know...) But I don't want it - No - I can't want it anymore
[Verse 1]
C F9
Something has changed within me
C Fsus2
Something is not the same
C F9 C
I'm through with playing by the rules
Bb
Of someone else's game
Bbsus2 C
Too late for second-guessing
Bbsus2 C
Too late to go back to sleep
Bb C
It's time to trust my instincts
F G
Close my eyes and leap
[Chorus]
Am
It's time to try
F G
Defying gravity
Am
I think I'll try
F G
Defying gravity
C C* F Fsus2
And you can't pull me down
[Post-Chorus]
C C* F Fsus2
Can't I make you understand, you're having delusions of grandeur...?
[Verse 2]
C Fsus2
I'm through accepting limits
C Fsus2
'Cause someone says they're so
C Fsus2
Some things I cannot change
F Bb
But 'till I try, I'll never know
Bbsus2 C
Too long I've been afraid of
Bbsus2 C
Losing love - I guess I've lost
Bb C
Well, if that's love
F G
It comes at much too high a cost
[Chorus]
Am
I'd sooner buy
F G
Defying gravity
Am
Kiss me goodbye
F G
I'm defying gravity
Fsus2
And you can't pull me down...
[Post-Chorus]
Glinda, come with me. Think of what we could do - together.
F C
Unlimited
F C
Together we're unlimited
Gm7 Em
Together we'll be the greatest team
F F9 F
There's ever been, Glinda,
C F
Dreams the way we planned them
C F
If we work in tandem
Bbsus2/F C#maj7 (Bbsus2/F )
There's no fight we cannot win
[Chorus]
Am
Just you and I
F G
Defying gravity
Am
With you and I
F G
Defying gravity
Fsus2
They'll never bring us down
G#
[Post-Chorus]
(Well? Are you coming?)
Cmaj7
I hope you're happy
Bm
Now that you're choosing this
Bb
(You too)- I hope it brings you bliss
A
I really hope you get it
Bb
And you don't live to regret it
Bmaj7 D#
I hope you're happy in the end
D# Bb Bbsus4 C Csus4
I hope you're happy, my friend
C
So if you care to find me
Fsus2(F)
Look to the western sky
C G
As someone told me lately
F Fsus2 Bb
Ev'ryone deserves the chance to fly
C Bb
And if I'm flying solo
C Bb
At least I'm flying free
C
To those who'd ground me
Bb G
Take a message back from me
[Chorus]
Am
Tell them how I
F G
Am defying gravity!
Am
I'm flying high
F G
Defying gravity!
Am Fsus2
And soon I'll match them in renown
C Fsus2
And nobody in all of Oz
C Fsus2
No wizard that there is or was
F G Am
Is ever gonna bring me down! (I hope you're happy)
[Post-Chorus]
F
Look at her she's wicked! Get her!
Am
Bring me down!
(No one mourns the wicked)
F G G# B C
So we've got to bring her down!