[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'd say
"Keep going 'till you see the sun."
And then I fell.

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

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

[CYNTHIA, sung]
In the world when it blackens day

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

[LARRY, sung]
I am lost in the memories

[EVAN, spoken]
And Connor didn't always know what to say

[CYNTHIA, sung]
As you soar on an angel's wings

[EVAN, spoken]
Wasn't always easy for him to, to talk to people

[CYNTHIA & LARRY, sung]
Now your face keeps on lingering
In my mind
[EVAN, spoken]

Wasn't easy to tell his parents how much he loved them
To tell Zoe that she was the most...
That she meant the entire world to him
He was always scared that because he was quiet
What if no one noticed him?
What if his whole life, what if he didn't matter at all?
So wherever you are now, right now Connor
I hope you can see this or-or hear this,
Um, and know in your heart
That you matter
That you'll always matter
To all of us

[ALL, sung]
A part of me

[CYNTHIA]
Finds a hope you're holding on

[ALL]
A part of me

[LARRY]
Won't give up from what isn't gone
[ALL]
A part of me

[CYNTHIA & LARRY, sung]
Wants to share the hurt and heartache
That I felt that day

[CYNTHIA]
I turn away

[ALL]
A part of me

[ZOE, spoken]
Alana put a copy of your speech online
I don't know what happened but people started sharing it I guess?
I mean, it's everywhere
People from all over the country are talking about Connor
Yesterday he had 56 pins on here

[EVAN, spoken]
Okay how many does he have now?

[ZOE, spoken]
One thousand two hundred and thirty nine.

[EVAN, spoken]
What happened?

[ZOE, spoken]
You did.

[ZOE, sung]
I feel the weight of the world sink in
And the chills dancing pass my skin
When I think that you must've been

[ALL]
So alone
Oh...
A part of me

[ZOE]
Needs a way to say goodbye

[ALL]
A part of me

[CYNTHIA & LARRY]
Now remembers how to cry

[ALL]
A part of me
Wants to share the hurt and heartache
So the world can see
That you'll always be
A part of me

You left this life and left me numb
Was I blind and deaf and dumb
I didn't know how bad it had become
Or how to see you
Now every prayer I've learned is prayed
And every moment shared replayed
I won't allow your memory to fade
Can I save you?
The sky collapsed without a sound
There's broken pieces in the ground
The rain fell down around me as I drowned
I will save you
The secrets almost no one knows
I feel them in your afterglow
As long as I will never let you go
I will save you

[ZOE]
You are not alone (x4)

[ALL]
You are not alone (x2)
You are not, you are not alone
A part of me

[ZOE]
Can't believe I never knew

[ALL]
A part of me

[ZOE]
I see the other part of you

[ALL]
A part of me

[ZOE]
In every word I miss you more

[ALL]
A part of me

[ZOE]
Brings me closer than before

[ALL]
A part of me
Wants to share the hurt and heartache
So the world can see
That you'll always be

[ZOE, spoken]
Everything you've said in your speech
Everything you've done
You don't know how much...

[EVAN, spoken]
It isn't...

[ZOE, spoken]
You've given me my brother back.

[CONNOR, sung]
A part of me