Into Notre Dame

Into Notre Dame is a song from the North American version of the musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

After Quasimodo is humiliated by the crowd at the Feast of Fools, Claude Frollo reprimands him for disobeying his orders and sends him back inside Notre Dame. Concerned for him, Esmeralda sneaks into the cathedral and is immediately enchanted by its beauty.

Lyrics
Frollo: See how it's cruel? See how it's wicked? See how I sheltered you From having to go through this? How could you do this to me?

Quasimodo: ''Forgive, Master! Won't ever leave again.''

Frollo: Now, boy, you see You don't belong with normal men You are happy when You're in your sanctuary

Quasimodo: Sanctuary

Frollo: Back to your sanctuary

Quasimodo and Frollo: Never to come out here...

Frollo: ''...again. Take the boy inside.''

Congregants: So the poor hunchback Retreated back in Through the doors of Notre Dame And there followed the gypsy girl Who'd never been through The doors of Notre Dame And she stopped and beheld all the beauty Like a beggar receiving an alm And each window and pillar And arch seemed to fill her with light...

Esmeralda: The light of Notre Dame