For Good

'For Good' is the song Elphaba and Glinda sing when they say goodbye to each other, it is at the end of the play, and the second-to-last song in the play.

## Plot

Glinda comes to the place where Elphaba is to tell he about the people who are coming to try to kill her, they fight.

## For Good

### Status

Used in play/In soundtrack

Elphaba gets a letter from Fiyero saying that he is alive, but a scarecrow, and her has a plan, but Glinda does not see  the letter, she asks if it is about Fiyero, Elphaba says it is, Glinda asks if he is alive, Elphaba says they have seen his face for the last time, Fiyero's plan has Elphaba fake her own death, for it to work, no one, not even Glinda, can that she is alive, aside from herself and Fiyero. She is going to say goodbye to Glinda, she tells Glinda, it well be that they will never meet once more, in that life time, and that so much of her was made from what sh learned from Glinda, the two make up with each other, at the end of this song, the people come to kill her, water is put on her, and she seems to have melt, even though she realy has lived, and left thorgh a trap-door, at this part in the play, everyone thinks she is dead, Glinda takes the bottle Elphaba always had, and finds out that Elphaba is the The Wizard's kid, Fiyero, alive but a scarecrow comes and opens the trap-door, Elphaba comes out alive.

## Lyrics.

**Elphaba:**
I'm limited
(spoken) Just look at me
(sung) I'm limited
And just look at you
You can do all I couldn't do
Glinda
So now it's up to you
(spoken) For both of us
(sung) Now it's up to you

**Glinda:**
I've heard it said
That people come into our lives
For a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led
To those who help us most to grow
If we let them
And we help them in return
Well I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today
Because I knew you

Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
Who can say
If I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
I have been changed
For good

**Elphaba:**
It well may be
That we will never meet again
In this lifetime
So let me say before we part
So much of me
Is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me
Like a handprint on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have re-written mine
By being my friend

Like a ship blown from its mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a skybird
In a distant wood
Who can say
If I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you

**Glinda:**
Because I knew you

**Both:**
I have been changed
For good

**Elphaba:**
And just to clear the air
I ask forgiveness
For the things I've done
You blame me for

**Glinda:**
But then, I guess
We know there's blame to share

**Both:**
And none of it seems to matter
Anymore

**Glinda (Elphaba):**
Like a comet pulled from orbit (Like a ship blown from its mooring)
As it passes a sun (By a wind off the sea)
Like a stream that meets a boulder (Like a seed dropped by a bird)
Halfway through the wood (In the wood)

**Both:**
Who can say
If I've been changed for the better?
I do believe I have been changed for the better

**Glinda:**
And because I knew you

**Elphaba:**
Because I knew you

**Both:**
Because I knew you
I have been changed
For good