Lyrics: Elphaba Vs. Glinda

(Glinda enters. There is a house in the background. The edge of the yellow brick road can be seen.)

[Glinda:] That's right, you just take that one road, the whole time. (Waves offstage.) Oh, I hope they don't get lost. I’m so bad at giving directions. (She sees the house, picks up flowers and lays them in front of the house.) Oh, Nessa.
(Elphaba appears.)
[Elphaba:] What a touching display of grief.
[Glinda:] I don't think we have anything further to say to one another.
[Elphaba:] I wanted something to remember her by, and all that is left were those shoes, and now that wretched little farm girl has walked off with them. So I’d appreciate some time, alone, to say goodbye to my sister.

(Glinda backs away as Elphaba walks toward the house.)

[Elphaba:] Nessa, please, please, please forgive me...
[Glinda:] Elphie... You mustn't blame yourself. It's dreadful, it is, to have a house fall on you, but accidents will happen.
[Elphaba:] You call this an accident?
[Glinda:] Yes! Well, maybe not an accident...
[Elphaba:] Well, what do you call it?
[Glinda:] Well... A regime change. Caused by a bizarre and unexpected twister of fate.
[Elphaba:] You think cyclones just appear out of the blue?
[Glinda:] I don't know, I never really...
[Elphaba:] No, of course you never! You're too busy telling everyone how wonderful everything is!
[Glinda:] I’m a public figure, now. People expect me to...
[Elphaba:] Lie?
[Glinda:] Be encouraging! And what exactly have you been doing besides riding around on that filthy, old thing?
[Elphaba:] Well, we can't all come and go by bubble. Who's invention was that, the Wizard's? Of course, even if it wasn't I’m sure he'd still take credit for it.
[Glinda:] Yes, well, a lot of us are taking things that don't belong to us, aren't we?
[Elphaba:] Now wait just a clock tick! I know it may be difficult for that blissful, blonde brain of yours to comprehend that someone like him could actually choose someone like me! But it's happened... It's real. And you can wave that ridiculous wand all you want, you can't change it! He never belonged to you, he doesn't love you, and he never did! He loves me!

(Glinda slaps her.)

[Elphaba:] (Cackles.) Feel better now?
[Glinda:] Yes, I do.
[Elphaba:] Good, so do I.

(She slaps Glinda. Glinda then twirls her wand skillfully and Elphaba arms herself with her broom. They charge at each other and then drop their "weapons" and beat each other senselessly. Glinda takes Elphaba's hat off her head and begins to whack her with it. The guards run in.)

[Guard:] Halt! In the name of the Wizard!

(They grab Elphaba.)

[Elphaba:] Stop! Let me go!
[Glinda:] Let me go, I almost had her!
[Guard:] Sorry it took us so long to get here, Miss.
[Elphaba:] I can't believe you would sink this low! To use my sister's death as a trap to capture me?!
[Glinda:] I never meant for this to happen! Elphie!

(Fiyero swings in on a rope.)

[Fiyero:] Let the green girl go!
[Glinda:] Fiyero, how in Oz?
[Fiyero:] I said let her go! Or explain to all Oz how the Wizard's guards watched while Glinda the Good was slain.
[Glinda:] Fiyero...
[Fiyero:] I said, let her go.

(The guards release her.)

[Fiyero:] Elphaba, go, now.
[Elphaba:] No, not without you.
Glinda:] Fiyero, please.
[Fiyero:] Hush! Now! Go!

(Elphaba hesitates.)

[Glinda:] Do it!

(She runs off.)

[Guard:] Seize him!
[Glinda:] Wait, what?! What are you doing? Stop it! In the name of goodness, stop! Don't you see? He wasn't going to harm me, he just... He just... He loves her.
[Fiyero:] Glinda, I’m so sorry!
[Guard:] Take him up to that field there! Put him on one of those poles until he tells us where the witch went.

(They drag him offstage.)

[Glinda:] No, don't hurt him! Please, don't hurt him! Fiyero!!