GOD HELP THE OUTCAST (THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1996)

“You're very clever to have found our hideaway.

Unfortunately, you won't live to tell the tale.” –Clopin

Disney’s usual fun and too wholesome animation veers away a bit with their version of Victor Hugo’s classic The Hunback Of Notre Dame. Considered a very serious story with adult themes, Disney still gambles with it and actually paid off. There’s the expected appearances of talking animated objects. In this case, three talking gargoyles. The Divine Miss M sung with soul one of the songs in the film, God Help The Outcast.


GOD HELP THE OUTCAST
sung by: Bette Midler

I don't know if you can hear me, or if you're even there

I don't know if you will listen to a humble prayer

They tell me I am just an outcast, I shouldn't speak to you

Still I see your face, and wonder, were you once an outcast too?

God help the outcasts, hungry from birth

Show them the mercy they don't find on Earth

The lost and forgotten, they look to you still

God help the outcasts, or nobody will

I ask for nothing, I can get by

But I know so many less lucky than I

God help the outcasts, the poor and downtrod

I thought we all were the children of God

I don't know if there's a reason

Why some are blessed, some not

Why the few you seem to favort

Hey fear us, flee us, try not to see us

God help the outcasts, the tattered, the torn

Seeking an answer to why they were born

Winds of misfortune have blown them about

You made the outcasts, don't cast them out

The poor and unlucky, the weak and the odd

I thought we all were the children of God