"More Than Just the Spare" is a deleted song and outtake sung by Kristen Anderson-Lopez from the 2013 Disney animated film, Frozen. It was originally planned to be sung by Anna (Kristen Bell).
This scene was originally Anna's introductory song which compared her uselessness to Elsa. It appears this song was replaced with "For the First Time in Forever," as the ending seems to be Anna bumping into Hans.
This song is featured in the two-disc deluxe edition of the Frozen Soundtrack.
Lyrics
Anna: Spare...? Am I really just the spare?
I’m not part of the town, not born to be queen
Just somebody hopelessly in between.
She’s the scholar, athlete, poet.
I’m the screw up, don’t I know it?
But then who could ever compare?
Of course they’re gonna think I’m just the spare.
Well I won’t care.
So I’m the extra button on a coat,
In case another one comes loose.
But if I have to be a button,
Why can't I be a button that’s of use; oops!
I may like style and I may like grace
And once in a while I fall on my face.
But this little button deserves a place in the sky,
This button wants to fly!
Wait, buttons can’t fly, it doesn’t make any sense!
So I’m a rusty horseshoe hanging up
Over somebody’s old barn door.
And I’ll be hanging there forever,
Just wishing the horse had one leg more.
And maybe I can’t be the perfect one,
And maybe I heir on the side of fun.
But horseshoes need a chance to run somewhere!
This horseshoe is more than just a spare.
Someday I’ll find my thing,
A thing that’s on my own.
That thing that makes me part of something,
Not just all alone.
If only all this feeling I have in my heart
Could mean something to someone, how I’d love to play that part!
So I’m just the second born sister
Who most of the town ignores.
Like a button, like a horseshoe,
Like a girl who’s bad at metaphors!
Maybe I don’t have a magic touch,
And maybe I don’t have a talent as such,
Just this heart with much, too much to share!
So I’ll never be the heir, but I’m more than just the spare!
Anna: Ugh! Sorry...
Trivia
- This song was supposed to be Anna's introductory song but the crew decided to take it out of the movie and feature it in a Frozen Soundtrack Deluxe Edition.
- One of the songwriters, Kristen Andersen-Lopez, said, "even though it got ultimately cut, it was really useful in helping us tap into Anna's character."
- An earlier draft of this song was about the Heir and the Spare; "Elsa being the Heir, and Anna being the overlooked, not needed Spare."
- This deleted song was featured in the Frozen Soundtrack (Deluxe Edition).
- This song was ultimately deleted because the songwriters feared it made Anna appear too similar to Hans.