Part of Me (DC Previews) Pasek & Paul (Ft. Alexis Molnar, Ben Platt, Laura Dreyfuss, Michael Park, Mike Faist & Will Roland)

[EVAN, spoken]
Good morning students, and-and faculty. I just... I would like just to say a few words today to you about....my best friend Connor Murphy. We stood there on an oak tree, Connor said that, um, he wondered what the world would look like from all the way up there so um, we decided to find out
We started climbing slowly, one... one branch at a time and when I finally looked back we were already uh, thirty feet off of the ground.
Connor just looked at me and smiled that way he always did. "Keep going," he said. "Keep going 'till you see the sun."

And then I fell.

[CYNTHIA, sung]
In the dark, you were swept away

[EVAN, spoken]
The funny part was when I hit the ground for a second, I just lay there.

[CYNTHIA]
And the world wouldn't let you stay

[EVAN, spoken]
I thought that any second now here...here he comes

[CYNTHIA]
All the words that I want to say
I can't find

[EVAN, spoken]
And then I looked up and Connor reached out his hand and all of the sudden, I knew more than I'd ever known anything that I wasn't alone.