Dear Evan Hansen Lyrics!

If I Could Tell Her

[EVAN, spoken]

He thought you were... awesome.​

[ZOE, spoken]

He thought I was awesome? My brother?

[EVAN, spoken]

Definitely!

[ZOE, spoken]

How?

[EVAN, spoken]

Well...

(sung)

He said

There's nothing like your smile

Sort of subtle and perfect and real

He said

You never knew how wonderful

That smile could make someone feel

And he knew

Whenever you get bored

You scribble stars on the cuffs of your jeans

And he noticed

That you still fill out the quizzes

That they put in those teen magazines

But he kept it all inside his head

What he saw he left unsaid

And though he wanted to

He couldn't talk to you

He couldn't find the way

But he would always say

If I could tell her

Tell her everything I see

If I could tell her

How she's everything to me

But we're a million worlds apart

And I don't know how I would even start

If I could tell her

If I could tell her

[ZOE, spoken]

Did he say anything else?

[EVAN, spoken]

A—about you?

[ZOE, spoken]

Never mind, I don't really care anyways—

[EVAN, spoken]

No, no, no—just, no, no—he said—he said so many things, I'm just—I'm trying to remember the best ones. So, um—

(sung)

He thought

You looked really pretty, er—

It looked pretty cool when you put indigo streaks in your hair

[ZOE, spoken]

He did?

[EVAN]

And he wondered how you learned to dance

Like all the rest of the world isn't there

But he kept it all inside his head

What he saw he left unsaid

If I could tell her

Tell her everything I see

If I could tell her

How she's everything to me

[EVAN & ZOE]

But we're a million worlds apart

[EVAN]

And I don't know how I would even start

If I could tell her

If I could tell her

But what do you do when there's this great divide?

[ZOE]

He just seemed so far away

[EVAN]

And what do you do when the distance is too wide?

[ZOE]

It's like I don't know anything

[EVAN]

And how do you say

I love you?

I love you

I love you

I love you

But we're a million worlds apart

And I don't know how I would even start

If I could tell her

If I could