The Bells of Notre Dame - From "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"/Soundtrack

Olim
 Olim Deus accelere
 Hoc sæculum splendidum
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 Accelere fiat venire olim
 Morining 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 colours of sound, so many changing moods
 Because you know, they do not ring all by the themselves
 They don't?
 No silly boy
 Up there, high, high in the dark bell tower
 Lives a mysterious bell ringer
 Who is this strange 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
 Shut it up will you!
 We'll be spotted!
 Hush little one
 Four frightened gypsies, slid silently under the docks near Notre Dame
 Four guilders for safe passage into Paris
 But a trap had been laid for the gypsies
 And they gazed up in fear and alarm
 At figure whose clutches
 Were iron as much as the bells
 Judge Claude Frollo!
 The bells of Notre Dame
 Judge Claude Frollo longed
 To purge the world
 Of vice and sin
 And he saw corruption
 Everywhere
 Except within
 Bring these gypsy vermin to the palace of justice
 You there, what are you hiding?
 Stolen goods, no doubt, take them from her
 She ran
 Dies iræ, dies illa
 
 Solvet sæclum in favilla
 Teste David cum Sibylla
 Quantus tremor est futurus
 Quando Judex est venturus
 Sanctuary, please give us sancturary
 Quantus tremor est futurus
 Quando Judex est venturus
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 A baby? A monster!
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 Stop!
 Cried the Archdeacon
 This is an unholy demon
 I'm sending to hell where it belongs
 See there the inncoent blood you have spilt
 On the steps of Notre Dame
 I am guiltless, she ran, I pursued
 Now you would add this child's blood to your guilt
 On the steps of Notre Dame
 My conscience us clear
 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
 And for one time in his life
 Of power and control
 Frollo felt a twinge of fear
 For his immortal soul
 What must I do?
 Care for the child, and raise it as your own
 What? I'm to be settled with this misshapen
 Very well, let him live with you and your church
 Live here? Where?
 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
 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?
 Sing the bells bells bells bells bells bells bells bells
 Bells of Notre Dame