Requiem [from "Dear Evan Hansen"] lyrics

Why should I play this game of pretend?

Remembering through a secondhand sorrow?

Such a great son and a 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

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

Why should I have a heavy heart?

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 will sing no requiem tonight

So don't tell me that I didn't get 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 without your light

I will sing no requiem

I will sing no requiem

I will sing no requiem tonight