Lyrics: For Good

[Elphaba:]

I'm limited


Just look at me

Not with your eyes, with theirs


I'm limited, and just look at you

You can do all I couldn't do, Glinda


Here, take it


[Glinda:]

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


[Elphaba:]

Well, you have to learn


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 re-written 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 in the wood)

Halfway through the wood

(In the wood)


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