Dear Evan Hansen Act 1 Lyric Starters
“Have you been writing those letters to yourself?”
“Can we try to have an optimistic outlook, huh? Can we buck up just enough to see the world won’t fall apart?”
“Maybe this year, we decide: We’re not giving up before we’ve tried.”
“I’m proud of you already. “
“Anybody maybe happen to know how the hell to do this? I don’t know if you can tell but this is me just pretending to know.”
“The scary truth is I’m flying blind and I’m making this up as I go.”
“I already said I’d go tomorrow. “
“Another masterful attempt ends with disaster!”
“I’ve learned to slam on the brake, before I even turn the key, before I make the mistake, before I lead with the worst of me.”
“No slipping up if you slip away.”
“Step out of the sun, if you keep getting burned.”
“Will I ever be more than I’ve always been?”
“When you’re falling in a forest and there’s nobody around do you ever really crash, or even make a sound?”
“Feels like we could go on for forever this way.”
“There’s nowhere else I’d rather be.”
“We could be alright for forever this way.”
“We’ve been way too out of touch. Things have been crazy, and it sucks that we don’t talk that much.”
“I should tell you that I think of you each night, I rub my nipples and start moaning with delight.”
“Why would you write that?!”
“This needs to be perfect. These emails have to prove that we were actually friends. Just—I’ll do it. “
“I’ve gotta tell you, life without you has been rough, and I miss talking about life and other stuff.”
“I’ll take your advice, I’ll try to be more nice.”
“All that it takes is a little reinvention, it’s easy to change if you give it your attention. All you gotta do is just believe you can be who you want to be.”
“I’m sending pictures of the most amazing trees. You’ll be obsessed with all my forest expertise!”
“Dude, I’m proud of you, just keep pushing through. You’re turning around, I can see.”
“Thanks for every note you send.”
“I’m just glad to be your friend.”
“Our friendship goes beyond your average kind of bond. But not because we’re gay.”
“Why should I play this game of pretend, remembering through a secondhand sorrow? Such a great _____ and wonderful friend. Oh, don’t the tears just pour.”
“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 gave you the world, you threw it away, leaving these broken pieces behind you.”
“When the villains fall, the kingdoms never weep.”
“After all you put me through, don’t say it wasn’t true: That you were not the monster that I knew!”
“He thought I was awesome? _______? How?”
“There’s nothing like your smile, sort of subtle and perfect and real.”
“Whenever you get bored you scribble stars on the cuffs of your jeans.”
“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 we’re a million worlds apart… And I don’t know how I would even start.”
“Did he say anything else?”
“He just seemed so far away…”
“And how do you say, ‘I love you’?”
“Guys like you and me, we’re just the losers who keep waiting to be seen, right? I mean no one seems to care or stops to notice that we’re there, so we get lost in the in-between.”
“You can somehow keep them thinking of me and make me more than an abandoned memory.”
“No one should come and go and have no one know he was ever even here. No one deserves to disappear.”
“That doesn’t mean that you’re not worth remembering.”
“No one should flicker out or have any doubt that it matters that they are here.”
“We have to do this. Not just for _______… for everyone. “
“I didn’t realize ______ meant this much to people. “
“Have you ever felt like you could disappear? Like you could fall, and no one would hear?”
“Maybe there’s a reason to believe you’ll be okay.”
“Even when the dark comes crashing through, when you need a friend to carry you and when you’re broken on the ground, you will be found.”
“I don’t understand, what happened?”
“It’s so easy to feel alone, but _____ is exactly right—we’re not alone, none of us. “
