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[I couldn't hear some words clearly so please excuse the mistakes, I just transcribed what I heard] Guess that it's over Hurts like a bitch It isn't as bad as they say All too familiar, barely an itch It's not fair but unfair is the way After all, looking back This is all right on track When you look at my life in review Here's a page you could skip This is barely a blip But you're hardly amazed Now you sit there unfazed As my world falls apart How's the view? I'm surviving the break Yeah there's more I can take This is nothing compared, Not when compared, to you Caleb? Caleb! Hey little Caleb, you don't understand Oh, of course, no one thinks that you can But deep in your heart, isn't this what you planned? What you hoped when the summer began? See you ____(?) me a curve You did more than observe No, you tore us apart and you knew It's a trap that I'm in, "Let the special kid win" I am nothing compared to you All these years by your side I've been trying to hide All the pain you've been putting me through So I feel insecure I don't live, I endure This is nothing compared to you To you To you To you This is nothing compared to you Who never knows I'm there Who just expects me/it(?) to be Who never learned to care How the effects affect me I'm pushing through alone That's all I know how to do I'm growing up on my own I should be greatful to you Cause I'm used to anger, brother And I'm used to lonely, father And I'm used to heartbreak, mother After all this After all this time No, they won't get it No need to yell Imagine our roles were reversed All this is nothing This could end well This is cake when you've dealt with the worst Did you know I was there? Did you try not to care? Did you think you had one son, not two? I spent years on my own When you left us alone Over years my resentment grew Did you know as a kid, There is one thing you did There is one thing you taught me was true Caleb's special and stuff I'm not special enough I am nothing because of you

@@dragonizk01 omg thank you so much! do you know anything about the context of the song? i fell in love with it but don't know the story behind it, either way thank you!

@@nicoleguarnieri8570 heya! glad you found it helpful. Unfortunately, I don't have any idea about the context of the song as I've never seen the musical before but it reads like he's talking to one of his parents here?

@@nicoleguarnieri8570 oh hey here i am a year later to tell you about the musical i wrote :P this song is sung by Michael, who has spent most of his life taking care of his older brother Caleb, who is autistic. this has been especially difficult for him after the loss of their mother, Audrey, when Michael was 12 and Caleb was 15. what's actually happening on stage during the song is super chaotic (in the show, the whole bridge section is a duet, there's a ton of prerecorded text that shows up in the orchestration) but essentially, what has happened right before this is Michael and his fiancee Chelsea break up, due to a massive fight they have about taking care of the now adult Caleb -- and it's not clear whether Caleb deliberately caused the relationship to fracture, as Caleb had become sort of obsessed with Chelsea after meeting her. Michael starts out talking to a mostly unresponsive Caleb, but as the song goes on, his memories collide with his reality, and he ends up singing to "ghosts" of his fiancee, his father, and finally, his mother. also your transcription only really missed a couple of word things! "see, you threw me a curve: / you did more than observe, / no, you tore us apart and you knew." and then "so i'm feeling secure-- / i don't 'live,' i endure." oh also it is "it" in the line "who just expects it to be." maybe i'll type out the lyrics sometime, too, for punctuation lol thanks for your interest!

@@heathcliffsaunders8101is there anyway to buy sheet music for this song?? i would really love to perform it for my senior recital!

Thanks for watching, Greg! I hope you and your family are well.