For Forever

Song: For Forever

Artist: From, Dear Evan Hansen

 

I am completely obsessed with the music from Dear Evan Hansen! I truly hope I have the opportunity to see it one day. It's all so me. I wish this had been around when I was a senior in high school. The song I have chosen for today is a fabricated story Evan Hansen tells about spending a day with a "friend" he never actually had. This song is beautiful! And it relates to me because, well, I'm going to be very honest and vulnerable here so bear with me, I kind of tend to live in my head. I tend to make up stories of living a different life where I have friends and I'm cool and confident and skinny and beautiful and happy. I've come to rely on these made up stories. I can't go a day without thinking about them. If I sound a little crazy right now, trust me, I've thought that too. In fact, just the other night I was thinking about all of this and started panicking wondering if I am indeed insane!! These stories that I have created for myself take me away from my lonely reality. They make me happy, even if that happiness isn't real. Even if it's just for a fleeting moment. I want to be that "other" me so badly. That's my end goal. I want to be her. And maybe if I keep pretending that I am and keep imagining that that girl is me it can be. I really hope I'm not crazy!!

 

To me, this song is all about imagining what it would actually be like to have a friend and what you would do with that perfect friend. How you would spend your day together. For people like me and Evan, all we have is what we imagine.

 

End of May or Early June

This picture perfect afternoon we shared

Drive the winding country road

Grab a scoop at A La Mode

And then we're there

An open field that's framed with trees

We pick a spot and shoot the breeze

Like buddies do

Quoting songs by our favorite bands

Telling jokes no one understands

Except us two

And we talk and take in the view

All we see is sky for forever
Let the world pass by for forever
Feels like we could go on for forever this way
Two friends on a perfect day

 

We walk a while and we talk about

The things we'll do when we get out of school

Bike the Appalachian trail or

Write a book

Or learn to sail

Wouldn't that be cool

There's nothing that we can't discuss

Like girls we wish would notice us but never do

He looks around and says to me

"There's nowhere else I'd rather be"

I say "me too"

And we talk and take in the view

We just talk and take in the view

All we see is sky for forever
We let the world pass by for forever
Feels like we could go on for forever this way
This way

All we see is light for forever
'Cause the sun shines bright for forever
Life will be alright for forever this way
Two friends on a perfect day

And there he goes

Racing toward the tallest tree

From far across the yellow field I hear him calling "follow me"

And there we go

Wondering how the world might look from up so high

One foot after the other

One branch then to another

I climb higher and higher

I climb until the entire

Sun shines on my face

And I suddenly feel the branch give way

I'm on the ground

My arm goes numb

I look around

And I see him come to get me

He's come to get me

And everything's okay

All we see is sky for forever
We let the world pass by for forever
Buddy, you and I for forever this way
This way

All we see is light
'Cause the sun burns bright
We could be alright for forever this way
Two friends
True friends
On a perfect day