"Requiem" is the fifth song in the Dear Evan Hansen soundtrack and the fifth song in Act One of the musical.
Zoe, Larry, and Cynthia are singing about Connor. This song is about how the family refuses to mourn Connor's death from their different perspectives.
Lyrics[]
[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]
I gave you the world, you threw it away
Leaving these broken pieces behind you
Ev'rything wasted, nothing to say
So I can sing no requiem
[CYNTHIA]
I hear your voice and 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
[ZOE/LARRY]
Why should I have a heavy heart?
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[LARRY] [CYNTHIA] Ah Ah |
[LARRY]
I will sing no requiem
[CYNTHIA]
I will sing no requiem
[ZOE]
I will sing no requiem
Tonight
[CYNTHIA/LARRY]
Oh
Oh
[ZOE]
Oh
[ZOE/CYNTHIA/LARRY]
Oh