For Good

[ELPHABA]

I'm limited

[ELPHABA, spoken]

Just look at me

Not with your eyes, with theirs

[ELPHABA]

I'm limited

And just look at you

You can do all I couldn't do, Glinda

[ELPHABA, spoken]

Here, take it

[GLINDA, spoken]

What? But you know I, I can't read this, I—

[ELPHABA, spoken]

Well, you have to learn

[ELPHABA]

Because 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 we are led

To those who help us most to grow

If we let them

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 wood

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 rewritten mine

By being my friend

Like a ship blown from its 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

[GLINDA & ELPHABA]

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

[GLINDA & ELPHABA]

And none of it seems to matter anymore

[GLINDA & ELPHABA]

Like a comet pulled from orbit (Like a ship blown from its mooring)

As it passes a sun (By a wind off the sea)

Like a stream that meets a boulder (Like a seed dropped by a bird)

Halfway through the wood (In the wood)

[GLINDA & ELPHABA]

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

[GLINDA & ELPHABA]

Because I knew you

I have been changed

For good