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For Good
"For Good" my friend." Elphaba also asks Glinda to forgive her for
anything she might have done wrong, to which Glinda
Song by Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth from the replies that "there’s blame to share", but both agree that
album Wicked
"none of it seems to matter anymore." Schwartz said af-
Released December 16, 2003 ter the show premiered that to begin the song, he asked
his daughter what she would say if she would never see
Recorded November 10, 2003
her best friend again, and her answer became the first
Genre Musical theatre, pop,show tune verse of "For Good".[citation needed]
Label Decca Broadway The lyrics rely on the play of words, "for good," which
are used to signify alternatively "forever" and "as an im-
Composer Stephen Schwartz provement."
For Good"
"For Good is a musical number from the hit musical
Wicked. It is sung as a duet between Elphaba (the Wicked Other versions
Witch of the West) and Glinda, as a farewell to each other. • Kristin Chenoweth (the original Broadway Glinda)
The song’s music and lyrics were written by composer sang a version of the piece at the private funeral for
Stephen Schwartz. her West Wing co-star John Spencer.
• LeAnn Rimes and Delta Goodrem covered the song
Context for the fifth anniversary soundtrack of the show.
• Lea Salonga and Jennifer Paz, who both played Kim
The song is performed towards the end of the musical. In in the musical Miss Saigon also did a cover of the
it, the two are singing farewell to one another. Just prior song and ended it with an art from Defying Gravity,
to the song, Elphaba gives Glinda the Grimmerie and tells another song from the musical Wicked.
her that it is now up to her to continue Elphaba’s cause. • Sam Tsui and Nick Pitera (both popular YouTube
After this song, Elphaba leaves and is supposedly melt- singers), recorded a cover that they uploaded to
ed by Dorothy (it later turns out that this was an elabo- YouTube.
rate set-up to fool the citizens of Oz into thinking she was • Lea Michele and Chris Colfer recorded a cover of the
dead so they would stop hunting her). In the end, she and song, as their characters Rachel Berry and Kurt
Fiyero, turned into "The Scarecrow" by one of Elphaba’s Hummel respectively, which was featured in the
spells gone awry, run away together. second season finale of Glee.
It is the climax, and one of the most well-known • Kristin Chenoweth sang a version of the piece during
songs of the show. It is reprised as part of the show’s fi- one of the Oprah Farewell shows.
nale.
Lyrics
The song’s lyrics concern how both Elphaba and Glinda
have been changed by their friendship with each other.
Glinda starts out by saying that, while she doesn’t know
if it is true that people come into each others lives for
a reason, "I know I’m who I am today because I knew
you." Similarly, Elphaba tells Glinda that "whatever way
our stories end, I know you have rewritten mine by being
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Categories:
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• Vocal duets
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