Dear Evan Hansen Lyrics!

Requiem

[ZOE]

Why should I play this game of pretend?

Remembering through a secondhand sorrow?

Such a great son and wonderful friend

Oh, don't the tears just pour

I could curl up and hide in my room

There in my bed, still sobbing tomorrow

I could give in to all of the gloom

But tell me, tell me what for

Why should I have a heavy heart?

Why should I start to break in pieces?

Why should I go and fall apart for you?

Why should I play the grieving girl and lie

Saying that I miss you

And that my world has gone dark without your light?

I will sing no requiem tonight

[LARRY, spoken]

I'm going to bed.​

[CYNTHIA, spoken]

Come sit with me.​

[LARRY]

Cynthia.​

[CYNTHIA]

You can't stand to be in this room for five minutes?

[LARRY]

I'm exhausted.​

[CYNTHIA]

You know, Larry, at some point you're going to have to start dealing—

[LARRY]

Not tonight. Please.​

[CYNTHIA]

Just read this.​

[LARRY]

I'll keep the light on for you

[LARRY, sung]

I gave you the world, you threw it away

Leaving these broken pieces behind you

Everything wasted, nothing to say

So I can sing no requiem

[CYNTHIA]

I hear your voice, I feel you near

Within these words, I finally find you

And now that I know that you are still here

I will sing no requiem tonight

[ZOE & LARRY]

Why should I have a heavy heart?

[ZOE]

Why should I say I'll keep you with me?

Why should I go and fall apart for you?

Why should I play the grieving girl and lie

Saying that I miss you

And that my world has gone dark without your light?

(I can see your light)

I will sing no requiem

Tonight

'Cause when the villains fall, the kingdoms never weep

No one lights a candle to remember

No, no one mourns at all

When they lay them down to sleep

So, don't tell me that I didn't have it right

Don't tell me that it wasn't black and white

After all you put me through

Don't say it wasn't true

That you were not the monster

That I knew

'Cause I cannot play the grieving girl and lie

Saying that I miss you

And that my world has gone dark

[LARRY]

I will sing no requiem

[CYNTHIA]

I will sing no requiem

[ZOE]

I will sing no requiem tonight

[LARRY & CYNTHIA]

Oh... oh...

[ZOE]

Oh...

[ZOE, LARRY, & CYNTHIA]

Oh...