We Know Better

"**We Know Better**" is a deleted song written by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez and sung by their two daughters (playing young Elsa and Anna) for the 2013 Disney animated film, *Frozen*.

## Foreword

**Robert Lopez:** Hi I'm Robert Lopez.

**Kristen Anderson-Lopez:** ...and I'm Kristen Anderson-Lopez and we are the song writers from the movie *Frozen*.

**Robert Lopez:** And we're super excited to share with you some of the songs we wrote for the movie that didn't make it into the movie

**Kristen Anderson-Lopez:** The next songs you're going to hear are all demos, recorded at our own house, with our own voices...

**Robert Lopez:** And the voices of our children.

**Kristen Anderson-Lopez:** This next song is the first song we wrote for the project, and we had fun writing a song for two little rebellious princesses.

**Robert Lopez:** This is just the first half of it, it starts off where Anna is a baby and Elsa is four years old. It's called "We Know Better".

## Lyrics

### First half

**Elsa**: *Hello little baby, you’re princess just like me.*

*But you’re thinking maybe it’s a pretty cool thing to be.*

*But soon you’ll see that everyone expects a lot from you,*

*They’ll say that there are things a princess should and shouldn't do.*

*But you and me, we, we know better.*

**Elsa and Anna**:*One, two three, together, clap together, snap together,*

*You and me together, knees together, freeze together*

*Up or down together, princess crown together*

*Always be together, you and me*

*One, two, three, together, clap together, snap together*

*You and me together, knees together, freeze together*

*Up or down together, princess crown together*

*Always be together, you and me*

**Elsa**: *They say a princess is full of charm and grace,*

*They say she always know her place.*

*They say a princess wears pink and frilly clothes,*

*They say she never laughs or snores milk out her nose.*

*They say she’s calm, they say she’s kind,*

*They say she never speaks her mind or freezes nanny’s big behind!*

**Both**: *But you and me, we, we know better*

**Nanny**: You guys are in so much trouble, when I'mma tell your father!

**Anna**: How come you can do that and I can’t?

**Elsa**: I don’t know, I wish you could though...

**Elsa**: *They say a princess is super duper sweet.*

**Anna**: *She doesn't fight she doesn't sweat.*

**Both**: *And you never see her eat.*

**Anna**: *They say a princess doesn't climb and scrape her knee.*

**Elsa**: *They say a princess wouldn't freeze her tutor’s teeth!*

**Anna**: *They say she’s poised,*

**Elsa**: *They say she’s fair,*

**Both**: *She never mentions underwear!*

**Anna**: *Or longs to see the world out there!*

**Both**: *But you and me, we, have big ideas of our own*

*For the distance someday when we’re grown*

**Elsa**: *When I’m queen,*

**Anna**: *And I’m your right hand,*

**Elsa**: *You’ll get to travel,*

**Both**: *Throughout the land.*

**Anna**: *I’ll tell them bout my sister and the magic things she can do.*

**Elsa**: *We’ll take care of our people and they will love*

**Both**: *Me and you!*

*No one can tell us what a princess should be,*

*As long as we’re together you and me.*

### Second half

**Female townsperson 1**: They say the princess, has strange and freak-ish pow'rs.

**Male towns person 2:** They say she conjures ice and snow within the castle ow'rs!

**Male towns person 3**: They say that she was born amidst a huricane of ice.

**Female townsperson 4**: That's why her heart is frozen.

**Male towns person 5**: But the sister's really nice.

**Male towns person 6**: But Elsa's cold.

**Female townsperson 7**: And awfully bold.

**Male and female townsperson 8 and 9**: What's more she cannot be controlled.

**Lots of townspeople**: She'll be our queen or so we're told.

*(Under their breath)* But we know better.

**Queen** *(speaking)*: "Anna, if you love your sister, you're going to have to lead by example."

**King**: "The kingdom is relying on you."

**Anna**: "Yes, father."

**King**: "Your sister is your burden as well."

**Elsa** *(back into singing)*: They say a princess learns elegance in school.

**Teacher** *(speaking)*: Chin up, eyes bright!

**Elsa** *(continu singing)*: She's traines in etiquette and follows ev'ry rule.

**Anna** *(speaking)*: Spoon on the right,

**Elsa** *(singing)*: They teach a princess to

*(Elsa and Anna reciting like drones)*: copy word for word...

**Elsa**: They teach a princess to

*(Both of them reciting like drones)*: "be seen and never heard."

**Elsa**: They say she doesn't dare or dream, they say she doesn't plan or scheme orgo to any big extreme to reunite a princess team.But you and me...

**Both of them**: We... whoa! *(almost crash in each other or some thing like that)*

We... know better!

*(Speaking)*

**Female freind**: "Hey anna!"

**Male friend**: "C'mon."

**Female friend**: "Join us!"

**Elsa** (age 18): "Oh, great" *(sighing)*

**Anna** (age 15) *(to Elsa)*: "Elsa, please?"

**Anna** (*singing*): Try to be friendly, *(speaking)* just smile and say hi. (singing) Don't be defensive and look them in the eye.

**Elsa** *(whispering)*: There kids are jerks.

**Anna**: I know it's hard but your temper makes it worse. They don't understand your gift.

**Elsa**: Yeah, they think it's a curse.

**Anna**: *(sigh)*

**Elsa**: They want me to stay mild and meek. I'ms'pose to turn the other cheek, but if one more kid calls me a...

**Elsa** *(speaking)*: wait for it...

**Boy**: FREAK!

*(Elsa snowblast the guy or something)*

**Anna** *(speaking)*: "Elsa, what did you do?

*(speaking to the kid)* I'm so sorry!"

**Anna** *(singing under her breath to Elsa)*: You should know better.

*(Singing)*

**Anna** (age 19): They say a princess one day will meet her prince. She must enhance her beauty.

**Elsa** (age 22): And maybe try some mints.

**Anna**: (Hmm) They say he'll have royal blood in ev'ry vein, with noble brow and chiseled face.

**Elsa**: And microscopic brain.

**Anna**: They say he'll come along one day.

**Elsa**: With royal inbred D.N.A.

**Anna**: and change your life in ev'ry way.

**Elsa** (Alone): But you and me...

*(musical answer only)*

**Elsa** *(alone and sad)*: We know better.