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Editor’s note: This article contains mild spoilers for Wicked: For Good<\/em>, which is now in theaters \u2014 and also for both acts of the Wicked<\/em> musical on Broadway.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

After spending months speculating over the new original songs that would be featured in Wicked: For Good<\/em> \u2014 one new song for Elphaba (played by Cynthia Erivo<\/a>) and another new song for Glinda (played by Ariana Grande<\/a>) \u2014 Wicked<\/em> fans are finally able to experience them within the overall context of the Wicked<\/em> saga on the big screen.<\/p>\n

Stephen Schwartz, who wrote the lyrics and composed the score of Wicked<\/em> on Broadway, was very involved in the film adaptation and wrote the two new songs himself. For Elphaba, that new song is “No Place Like Home,” an immediate reference to an iconic line delivered by Dorothy Gale (played by Judy Garland) in the original 1939 musical film The Wizard of Oz<\/em>. Glinda’s new song is “The Girl in the Bubble,” which metaphorically references her iconic mode of transportation in the movies.<\/p>\n

The overarching storyline of Wicked: For Good<\/em> centers on Act Two of the original Broadway musical. However, the two new songs performed by Erivo (as Elphaba) and Grande (as Glinda) are fresh material even to longtime fans of the Oz world and the Wicked<\/em> musical, thus serving as exciting equalizers for everyone in the audience to have certain experiences for the very first time with other audience members.<\/p>\n

Below, explore our comprehensive breakdown of these brand-new songs featured in Wicked: For Good<\/em>, including the past they’re referencing, and the present context in which they exist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What is Elphaba’s new song ‘No Place Like Home’ about?<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n

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Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba in Wicked: For Good<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The references that informed<\/strong> Elphaba’s song “No Place Like Home.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

The entire premise of the 1939 musical film The Wizard of Oz<\/em> centers on Dorothy Gale wanting to find her way back home after she is flown into the Land of Oz by a tornado<\/a>. By the end of the original MGM movie, Glinda (played by Billie Burke) gives Dorothy (Garland) a few instructions to return home.<\/p>\n

“Close your eyes, and tap your heels together three times,” Burke’s Glinda says in the classic film. “And think to yourself: ‘There’s no place like home.'” After hearing it a few times, Garland’s Dorothy joins the Good Witch and starts repeating it, too.<\/p>\n

The context surrounding Elphaba’s song “No Place Like Home.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“No Place Like Home” turns out to be a very important song for a character like Elphaba, who doesn’t get to express herself as much as she does in the first Wicked<\/em> movie and Act One of the Broadway musical. Overall, the song shows viewers that the heroine is finding herself in the middle of a conundrum that is both literal and metaphorical.<\/p>\n

While Elphaba fights and advocates for the rights of animals and Animals, many of them have already given up on Oz and are in the middle of a mass exodus to whatever destination they can find beyond this Land. In that sense, “No Place Like Home” is a metaphor-turned-slogan that Elphaba creates to try to convince animals and Animals that it’s worth sticking around and fighting the good fight for a Land that is also theirs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Marissa Bode as Nessarose; Ariana Grande as Glinda; Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero in Wicked: For Good<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The more literal meaning of Elphaba’s new song, “No Place Like Home,” is much more brutal.<\/p>\n

Elphaba’s father, Governor Thropp (played by Andy Nyman), has died. Elphaba’s sister, Nessarose (played by Marissa Bode), is wildly drunk with power after assuming the role of Governor of Munchkinland from their father’s passing.<\/p>\n

Elphaba’s love interest, Fiyero, has become a cop in the Gale Force, which is actively hunting down the Wicked Witch to kill her. And even though Elphaba knows that Glinda is being a double agent as a figurehead to the government ruling over Oz, the roles they’re playing inherently limit their time together as friends.<\/p>\n

In other words, as Elphaba tries to convince the animals and Animals that Oz is their home, she wonders\u2026 Does she<\/em> even have a home in Oz at all?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Elphaba’s ‘No Place Like Home’ lyrics in full.<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n

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Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba in the single artwork for ‘No Place Like Home,’ a new song by Stephen Schwartz featured in Wicked: For Good<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Read the full lyrics of Elphaba’s new song “No Place Like Home” below.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why do I love this place \/ That’s never loved me? \/ A place that seems to be devolving \/ And even wanting to?<\/p>\n

But Oz is more than just a place \/ It’s a promise, an idea \/ And I want to help make it come true<\/p>\n

Why should a land have so much meaning \/ When dark times befall it? \/ It’s only land, made of dirt, and rock, and loam<\/p>\n

It’s just a place that’s familiar \/ And home’s just what we call it \/ But there’s no place like home<\/p>\n

Don’t we all know? \/ There’s no place like home<\/p>\n

When you feel you can’t fight anymore \/ Just tell yourself \/ There’s no place like home<\/p>\n

When you feel it’s not worth fighting for \/ Compel yourself \/ Because there’s no place like home<\/p>\n

When you want to leave \/ Discouraged and resigned \/ That’s what they want you to do<\/p>\n

But think how you’ll grieve \/ For all you leave behind \/ Oz belongs to you too<\/p>\n

Those who would take it from you \/ Spout a lie to tell yourself \/ You go their way or go<\/p>\n

It’s them who you’ll be defeating \/ If we keep on repeating \/ There’s no place like home<\/p>\n

There’s no place like home \/ There’s no place like home<\/p>\n

If we just keep fighting for it \/ We will win back and restore it \/ There’s no place like home<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Watch and listen: ‘No Place Like Home’ lyric video.<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n

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