Requiem - Laura Dreyfuss, Jennifer Laura Thompson, Michael Park

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 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’m going to bed.​

Come sit with me.​

Cynthia.​

You can’t stand to be in this room for five minutes?

I’m exhausted.​

You know, Larry, at some point you’re going to have to start dealing—

Not tonight.

Please.​

Just read this.​

I’ll keep the light on for you

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

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 tonight

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 can see your light)

I will sing no requiem

Tonight

'Cause when the villains fall, the kingdoms never weep

No one lights a candle to remember

No, no one mourns at all

When they lay them down 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 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

I will sing no requiem

I will sing no requiem

I will sing no requiem tonight

Oh-oh, oh-oh

Oh-oh

Oh-ohhh