I really break down when she sings “And I knew there would moments that I’d miss and I knew there would space I couldn’t fill...” for me that’s what breaks my heart because I never really looked at it that way. When my son was born, I felt so sad sometimes when I looked at him and I think it’s because I KNEW I was going to come up short for him in so many different ways as she sings. We as parents, can’t be everything for our kids, we’re going to mess up, and THATS OK as long as we stick around for them and love them. We have to admit our shortcomings in order to be better.
@@jessixgamer9738 I saw it in Greensboro as well, and it was someone else. Rachel Bay Jones was the original Broadway Heidi, and what was in Greensboro was the National Tour cast. (I cried a TON as well, it was phenomenal!)
@Reza Ghifari I saw this show at 39 years old and everything was going just fine for me until she sang this line and I fell apart. It was far too much for me as a new father.
I don't know why it took me so long to realize this meaning too, but after revealing the truth, Evan is abandoned by his new "family" partially because they are hurt that he lied to them (understandably) but mostly because he served no purpose for them anymore. They only loved him for the connection to Connor that he provided them. But his Mom doesn't leave him, even though he lied to her too and even though he thinks she's going to hate him. No, she loves him for who he is, flaws and all, and she's going to stay with him when it all feels so big til it all feels so small.
Every time I listen to this song I cry. It makes me think of me and my mom. My dad left us when I was a little girl.. So I understand, I even asked my mom, “Will a car take you away like what happened with Daddy?” so this really hits home for me.
My mom was killed in a car crash on Christmas Day a couple years ago. This song made me cry harder than I can remember. I miss her so much. She worked so hard to give me every chance at a good life, and damned if she didn't do a great job.
The first time I heard her sing " I there another truck coming..a truck that will take mommy away..." it was like a hammer blow. And every time since. So powerful.
This reminds me so much of when my dad walked out and left my mom to raise and support my brother and me... and she did... and she does... and she will. My mother is my hero.
After seeing the movie, I think Moore did a good job at bringing this number down to movie size and letting it feel intimate and personal, but honestly, nothing beats the original. This legit made me cry at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="330">5:30</a> in the afternoon on the subway
When I saw the show in the West End last week, this was really the song that tore me apart. I was crying a lot before this song, but this! 😭😭😭 I don't think there were dry eyes that night! I had to share my tissues with the gals next to me.
Same! I watched this on West End and I was already crying so much with evan's breakdown that I didn't think I could cry anymore. Then this song happens 😭😭
just such a moving performance. I will never forget when i saw the touring company put Dear Evan Hansen on in my town how the entire theatre was so silent during this performance you could hear a pin drop. not one breath, cough, moan. every single 2,000 persons were taken into another world. it was captivating
The song as a whole is already really emotional, but <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="133">2:13</a> - <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="170">2:50</a> happens and I'm here ugly crying
My bio dad left my Mom and me in 1972. It crushed her and ruined me. Well, my dad and first stepfather’s emotional and physical abuse. I was Evan Hansen and at age 55 I still am. Parents need to realize that their actions have profound, lifelong effects on their children. I am blessed to have a wonderful Mom and through her tears she found a way to be strong.
This song always gets me sobbing ugly because I can relate to the song. My father left my mother, too, and I was the only one out of my 4 siblings who have seen my mother cry everyday and every night. I love my mom so much.
When I listened to the movie's soundtrack, I didn't really care or feel anything. I thought maybe I just listened to this one too many times and it didn't really have an effect on me anymore. But *NO,* as soon as I clicked on this and heard the first verse, I started crying.
Dang, after listening to the movie version, well, I understand that it's a "clearer version" because, well, it's a movie, so it has less gasps, breathing and everything but it just hits really different and I could cry everytime listening to this one because the emotion can be FELT (as it does on the recorded version) and it's just amazing but the other one it kinda disappoints in the part where you feel like it's rising and rising and it just kinda stops or keeps from going all on the feels, idk
Such an amazing song. This has allowed me to realize that though my parents were fallible, they were human beings first just trying to figure shit out themselves.
Ahhh this song hits near home But it hurts more when you listen this right after "Good for you" and "Words fail" She try to gives everything to Evan but it wasn't enough
Judging by the comments, every 30 seconds of this song makes someone lose it. Yup the math adds up, cuz I haven’t stopped crying since the song started!
I don't know if I cry because relate to the mom because I work and I feel like I miss so much of my kiddo or because I yearn for my own mom to say this to me.
