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Quoth Josh Groban, “Evermore.” The pop singer has recorded a version of the new Beauty and the Beast song “Evermore” that will play over the film’s end credits and app…

The pop singer has recorded a version of the new Beauty and the Beast song “Evermore” that will play over the film’s end credits and appear on the soundtrack, Disney announced Thursday.

Billed as “a soaring ballad,” the song is performed in the film by the Beast (Dan Stevens) after he releases Belle (Emma Watson) to be with her father. “Evermore” was written by composer Alan Menken, who worked on the original Beauty and the Beast, and lyricist Tim Rice (The Lion King, Evita).

Groban said in a statement, “I am honored to sing this beautiful new song by two of my absolute favorites, Alan Menken and Tim Rice. Beauty and the Beast has been with me since my childhood and to have a musical connection to this new film makes me so happy.”

Menken and Rice also penned two other new tunes for the film, “Our Song Lives On” and “Days in the Sun.” Beauty and the Beast hits theaters March 17.

I hope that the Soundtrack will include both versions of “For Evermore” - The Beast’s (Dan) and Josh Groban’s.

“Menken, who worked with the late Howard Ashman and lyricist Tim Rice on Disney’s animated Beauty and the Beast, helped to craft new songs in the forms of “Our Song Lives On” sung by Belle (Watson) and her father Maurice (Kevin Kline); “For Evermore” sung by the Beast (Stevens); and “Days in the Sun” sung by Belle and the rest of the live-action film’s cast. Menken explained the thought-process behind each song to EW as follows:

“The first time [‘Our Song Lives On’ is] sung, it’s Belle’s father singing as he’s completing a music box, and basically it’s [about], ‘How does a moment live forever? How do you hang on to precious moments?’ Then, it’s reprised by Belle, and then it’s the song that’s actually over the end credits at the end of the movie. Disney hasn’t announced it yet, but there’s going to be some wonderful singer on the end credits song.

‘For Evermore’ is this moment where the Beast now loves Belle, and he realizes that she misses her father, and he acknowledges she’s no longer a prisoner, and when she sees her father’s in trouble, he says, ‘Go to him, go.’ And he voluntarily lets her go. He’s basically singing about how he now knows what love is, as he watches her leave, and he’s climbing up the turret of the castle as she recedes into the distance, just watching her go further and further away.

‘Days in the Sun’ is a moment when all of the objects in the castle —and Belle — are going to sleep. Basically, everybody in the castle is having memories of what it used to be when they had their days in the sun. It’s sort of a combination of a lullaby and a remembrance of happier days for everybody.”