Every Day More Wicked – English Lyrics

• By: Wicked Movie Cast
• Album: Wicked: For Good Soundtrack

Lyrics & Translation

Discover the world of Oz through the powerful opening number of "Wicked: For Good," "Every Day More Wicked." This song offers a fantastic opportunity to learn vocabulary related to fear, propaganda, and public perception. Its dramatic and orchestral style, combined with reprises of familiar melodies, makes it a captivating piece for language learners to engage with the themes of the story and the nuances of its characters' journeys.

[English]

EV'RY DAY MORE WICKED!

Every day, the terror grows.

All of Oz is ever on alert.

That's the way with wicked.

Spreading fear wherever she goes.

Seeking out new victims she can hurt.

Like some terrible green blizzard,

Throughout the land she flies.

Defaming our poor Wizard with her calumnies and lies!

She lies!

She lies!

Save us from the wicked!

Shield us so we won't be hexed!

Give us warning:

Where will she strike next?

Where will she strike next?

Where will she strike next?

When I stop the Wizard

All Oz will applaud.

How I saved them from the Wizard

By revealing he's a fraud.

If I can just make them believe in the truth.

That all that he says is a lie.

That's when they'll finally bid

The Wizard goodbye.

Dearest Glinda, you are still the best!

Others are good, but you're the goodliest!

We feel merry, we feel cheery just to gaze on your reflection.

Only you disprove the theory that you can't improve perfection!

La-la, la-la.

La-la, la-la.

La-la, la-la.

La-la, la-la.

La-la, la-la.

Save us from the wicked.

Every night our voices wail.

Save us from this fear and victimhood!

We believe in Glinda!

With her magic, she'll prevail.

She will make it end the way it should.

When at last the wicked is defeated by the good!

Wicked is defeated by the good!

Key Grammar Structures

• Every day, the terror grows.

  ➔ Present Simple Tense

  ➔ The phrase 'Every day' indicates a habitual action, and 'grows' is in the present simple tense, showing a repeated or ongoing action.

• That's the way with wicked.

  ➔ Contraction and Present Simple Tense

  ➔ 'That's' is a contraction of 'That is', and 'is' is in the present simple tense, emphasizing a general truth.

• Like some terrible green blizzard,

  ➔ Simile

  ➔ The phrase 'Like some terrible green blizzard' uses 'like' to compare the wicked witch to a blizzard, emphasizing her destructive nature.

• She lies!

  ➔ Present Simple Tense with Emphatic Statement

  ➔ 'She lies!' is an emphatic statement using the present simple tense to strongly assert that the action is true.

• Where will she strike next?

  ➔ Future Simple Tense with Question Form

  ➔ The phrase 'Where will she strike next?' uses the future simple tense in a question form to express uncertainty about a future action.

• If I can just make them believe in the truth.

  ➔ Second Conditional

  ➔ 'If I can just make them believe in the truth' uses the second conditional to express a hypothetical situation and its result.

• Only you disprove the theory that you can't improve perfection!

  ➔ Emphatic Structure with 'Only'

  ➔ The phrase 'Only you disprove...' uses 'only' to emphasize the exclusivity of the subject's action.

• When at last the wicked is defeated by the good!

  ➔ Past Simple Tense in a Temporal Clause

  ➔ 'When at last the wicked is defeated...' uses the past simple tense in a temporal clause to indicate a completed action in the future.