The Bells of Notre Dame - OST Hunchback of Notre Dame

Clopin
   Morning in Paris, the city awakes
   To the bells of Notre Dame
   The fisherman fishes, the bakerman bakes
   To the bells of Notre Dame
   To the big bells as loud as the thunder
   To the little bells soft as a psalm
   And some say the soul of the city's
   The toll of the bells
   The bells of Notre Dame

   Listen, they're beautiful, no?
   So many colors of sound, so many changing moods
   Because you know, they don't ring all by themselves
   - They don't? -
   No, silly boy.
   Up there, high, high in the dark bell tower
   lives the mysterious bell ringer.
   Who is this creature - Who? -
   What is he? - What? -
   How did he come to be there - How? -
   Hush, and Clopin will tell you
   It is a tale, a tale of a man and a monster.

   Dark was the night when our tale was begun
   On the docks near Notre Dame
Man #1
   Shup it up, will you!
Man #2
   We'll be spotted!
Gypsy
   Hush, little one.
Clopin
   Four frightened gypsies slid silently under
   The docks near Notre Dame
Man #3
   Four guilders for safe passage into Paris
Clopin
   But a trap had been laid for the gypsies
   And they gazed up in fear and alarm
   At a figure whose clutches
   Were iron as much as the bells
Man #4
   Judge Claude Frollo
Clopin
   The bells of Notre Dame
Chorus
   Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)
Clopin
   Judge Claude Frollo longed
   To purge the world
   Of vice and sin
Chorus
   Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)
Clopin
   And he saw corruption
   Ev'rywhere
   Except within
Frollo
   Bring these gypsy vermin to the palace of justice
Guard
   You there, what are you hiding?
Frollo
   Stolen goods, no doubt. Take them from her
Clopin
   She ran
Chorus
   Dies irae, dies illa (Day of wrath, that day)
   Solvet saeclum in favilla (Shall consume the world in ashes)
   Teste David cum sibylla (As prophesied by David and the sibyl)
   Quantus tremor est futurus (What trembling is to be)
   Quando Judex est venturus (When the Judge is come)
Gypsy
   Sanctuary, please give us sanctuary
Frollo
   A baby? A monster!
Archdeacon
   Stop!
Clopin
   Cried the Archdeacon
Frollo
   This is an unholy deamon.
   I'm sending it back to hell, where it belongs.
Archdeacon
   See there the innocent blood you have spilt
   On the steps of Notre Dame
Frollo
   I am guiltless. She ran, I pursued.
Archdeacon
   Now you would add this child's blood to your guilt
   On the steps of Notre Dame
Frollo
   My conscience is clear
Archdeacon
   You can lie to yourself and your minions
   You can claim that you haven't a qualm
   But you never can run from
   Nor hide what you've done from the eyes
   The very eyes of Notre Dame
Chorus
   Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)
Clopin
   And for one time in his live
   Of power and control
Chorus
   Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)
Clopin
   Frollo felt a twinge of fear
   For his immortal soul
Frollo
   What must I do?
Archdeacon
   Care for the child, and raise it as your own
Frollo
   What? I'd be settled with this misshapen ...?
   Very well. Let him live with you, in your church.
Archdeacon
   Live here? Where?
Frollo
   Anywhere
   Just so he's kept locked away
   Where no one else can see
   The bell tower, perhaps
   And who knows, our Lord works in mysterious ways
   Even this foul creature may
   Yet prove one day to be
   Of use to me
Clopin
   And Frollo gave the child a cruel name
   A name that means half-formed, Quasimodo
   Now here is a riddle to guess if you can
   Sing the bells of Notre Dame
   Who is the monster and who is the man?
Clopin and Chorus
   Sing the bells, bells, bells, bells
   Bells, bells, bells, bells
   Bells of Notre Dame