okay this fandom is ded but I just realized something huge
the cast recording (so every song except the sincerely me (reprise) and ywbf (reprise) parallels itself. let me explain
okay there are 14 songs and the 7th and 8th songs are disappear and ywbf which have parallel meanings, words, objectives etc. which I will explain later
before disappear and after ywbf (so the 5th and 9th song) are if i could tell her (imma abreviate it icth) and to break in a glove which again, is an example of parallelism and then so on down the line
so here’s my logic behind my insanity
first off: disappear/ywbf: this one is obvious. Even the names kind of compliment each other. If you disappear, you will be found. You get my gist. But also the lines “if you only look around/you will be found” is like a direct response to “no one deserves to be forgotten/no one deserves to disappear.” Also very ominous endings because they’re sung in results of LIES.
icth/tbiag: So when I was first formulating this theory, I was kind of upset when icth didn’t match up with only us but it’s actual works itself out better than I thought, but I’ll get into that later. Anywho, both these songs are about how a member of the murphy family wished they could’ve reconciled with Connor. Zoe realizes that maybe Connor wasn’t so bad and Larry realizes Connor just needed some help, just not the help he could give (metaphorically not literally.) They both realize how much they could actually miss Connor... because of Evan.
okay here’s the good one: requiem/only us: Requiem is the song where we find out who the real Connor is. Zoe hates him, Larry hates him, Cynthia put up with him, etc. All around douche bag to his family (joking joking i kid i kid). It’s mainly Zoe’s ballad to her brother about how she won’t miss him. Then, there’s Only Us which is sung because Evan keeps mentioning her brother. You’d think it’d be the grief stricken sister who’d be constantly talking about her brother instead of the boyfriend, but because of Requiem, we’ve already established it won’t be that way. So, Requiem is kind of like the gateway to Only Us. Without the preluding song, we’d be confused during Only Us.
Sincerely, Me/Good For You: Here’s where it gets sad :( Sincerely Me is the comic relief song while Good For You is the beginning of the climax. The way these two coincide is that it’s the beginning of the lie and Good For You is where it all starts tumbling down. If Jared hadn’t helped Evan, he wouldn’t be singing his part and hate Evan so much. The way Heidi and Alana fit into the equation is that they’re both victims to the widespread lie. And in the end... so is Evan and Connor.
For Forever/Words Fail: There’s obvious lyrical parallels (heck there’s a mini For Forever reprise in it) but the biggest compare/contrast is the use of perfect in the songs. For Forver describes the perfect (but fake) day, the day where Evan felt so happy and loved by Connor when he found him laying on the ground, but in reality he felt what he feels like during Words Fail which is so depressed and high strung, but also, he realized his mistakes and that he needed to fix them and heal himself (physically in for forever and mentally/in his relationships during Words Fail.) For Forver is what Evan thinks perfect feels like (loved, hopeful, etc.) while Words Fail is the result of him trying to obtain that. He found a perfect family and girlfriend in the Murphy’s but it was the way he obtained it.
Wtaw/So big/so small: Both having to do with Evan feeing abandon/outcast. Sb/ss is the story of the root of Evan’s feelings of abandonment while wtaw is probably the beginning of the climax of it. Honestly, if the computer lab scene hadn’t gone the way it had gone... I’m sure it wouldn’t be Connor’s suicide that would be the center of attention. That letter/monologue he gives is too heartbreaking to just be a letter.
abham (omg that acronym)/finale: Abham is Evan through Heidi’s eyes. She sings about how she is lost and implys that so is Evan. By opening with this song, it’s a symbol that Evan can’t even take the first step on his own in his own story. By the end, Evan goes through so much that it ends with him singing the last line about seeing sky for forever. This is the ultimate motif of the musical in which Evan finally a finds his path. He learned how to walk on his own and not have to lie to get to his goal.
So yeah, you can disagree and say I spent the last half an hour typing this out for nothing, (the capitalization is so out of whack) but I think what I realized makes this musical so much more meaningful and beautiful (to me at least).
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