[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 can 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, spoken]
I'm going to bed
[CYNTHIA, spoken]
Come sit with me
[LARRY]
Cynthia
[CYNTHIA]
For five minutes?
[LARRY]
I'm exhausted
[CYNTHIA]
You know Larry, at some point you're going to have to start-
[LARRY]
Not tonight. Please. I'll leave the light on for you.
[LARRY, sung]
I gave you the world, you threw it away,
leaving these broken pieces behind you
Everything wasted, nothing to say
So I can sing no requiem
[CYNTHIA]
I hear your voice, 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 tonight
[ZOE & LARRY]
Why should I have a heavy heart?
[ZOE]
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
'cuz when the villains fall, the kingdoms never weep
no one lights a candle to remember
no, no one mourns at all
they lay them to sleep
so don't tell me that I didn't have it right
don't tell me that it wasn't black and white
after all you've put me through,
don't say it wasn't true
that you were not the monster
that I knew,
'cuz I cannot play the grieving girl
and lie
saying that I miss you
and that my world has gone dark
[LARRY]
I will sing no requiem
[CYNTHIA]
I will sing no requiem
[ZOE]
I will sing no requiem tonight