This is an ASL version of Dear Evan Hansen's 'You Will Be Found' that was created by a group of Deaf talent and interpreters. I've always wanted to do an ASL version of this song as it's a very powerful song and wanted this to also be accessible to the Deaf/Hard of Hearing community. Hope you're as moved as I was after seeing this video several times!!
My thanks goes to the following people for doing this with me:
Alexandria Wailes
Carmen King
Keri Brooks
Amy Richardson
John McGinty
Jennifer Perlis
Jay Penuel
Michael Creason
Christina Whitehouse-Suggs
Diana Steinhauser
Bryan Davis
MJ Jones
Jeremy Miller
Amanda Welly
Kristen Willbur
(and I’m in this as well)
This was edited by a good friend of mine, Grace Simoneau.
[Transcript:]
Have you ever felt like nobody was there?
Have you ever felt forgotten in the middle of nowhere?
Have you ever felt like you could disappear?
Like you could fall, and no one would hear?
Well, let that lonely feeling wash away.
Maybe there’s a reason to believe you’ll be okay
.
'Cause when you don’t feel strong enough to stand
.
You can reach, reach out your hand
And oh, someone will come running
.
And I know, they’ll take you home
.
Even when the dark comes crashing through,
When you need a friend to carry you
.
And when you’re broken on the ground,
You will be found.
So let the sun come streaming in
.
'Cause you’ll reach up and you’ll rise again
.
Lift your head and look around,
You will be found
.
You will be found
.
You will be found.
You will be found
.
You will be found
.
[spoken]
Have you seen this? Someone put a video of your speech online.​
[spoken]
My speech?
[spoken]
People started sharing it, I guess, and now, I mean-Connor is everywhere.​
[spoken]
That speech is everywhere. This morning The Connor Project page, it only had 56 people following it.​
[spoken]
Well, how many does it have now?
[spoken]
Four
​thousand five-hundred eighty-two.
[spoken]
Sixteen thousand
​two-hundred and thirty-nine
.
[spoken]
I don't understand, what happened?
[spoken]
You did!
There’s a place where we don’t have to feel unknown
,
And every time that you call out
,
You’re a little less alone.
If you only say the word
,
From across the silence
Your voice is heard
[.
[spolen]
Share it with the people you love
. Repost
. The world needs to hear this
. A beautiful tribute. I know someone who really needed to hear this today.
So thank you, Evan Hansen, for doing what you're doing
.
I never met you Connor, but coming on here, reading everyone's posts,
it's so easy to feel alone
, but Evan is exactly right-we're not alone, none of us
. We're not alone, none of us
. None of us
. None of us are alone
.
Especially now
, with everything that you hear in the news.
Like. Share. Repost. Forward.
Thank you Evan Hansen for giving us a space to remember Connor
.
To be together,
to find each other
. Sending prayers from Michigan,
Vermont, Tampa, Sacramento.
Thank you, Evan Hansen
.
Even when the dark comes crashing through,
When you need a friend to carry you,
When you’re broken on the ground,
You will be found
.
So let the sun come streaming in
,
'Cause you’ll reach up and you’ll rise again
.
If you only look around
,
You will be found.
You will be found.
You will be found
.
Out of the shadows
,
The morning is breaking
,
And all is new, all is new.
It's filling up the empty
,
And suddenly I see that
All is new, all is new
.
You are not alone.
You are not alone
.
You are not alone.
You are not alone
.
You are not alone.
You are not alone.
You are not alone.
Even when the dark comes crashin' through,
When you need someone to carry you
,
When you’re broken on the ground
,
You will be found
.
So let the sun come streaming in,
'Cause you’ll reach up and you’ll rise again.
If you only look around
,
You will be found
.
Even when the dark comes crashin' through,
You will be found
.
When you need someone to carry you,
You will be found
.
You will be found
.
You will be found.