No Longer You - A question on "you're"
First off, I am a huge fan, and probably listen to some song of Epic daily while commuting, so huge thanks and lots of love for Jorge Rivera-Herrans for all you do and who you are.
That said, in the entire musical there is one single word that sounds odd in my opinion.
In No Longer You, in what I'll call the second verse, Tiresias sings: (note the "you're")
I see your palace covered in red
Faces of men who had long believed you're dead
I see your wife with a man who is haunting
A man with a trail of bodies
So, that "you're" should not be expanded to "you are" because the "who had" puts the sentence in past tense. So it must be "you were", which works, if a little unorthodox.
I think it should just be "you". I think it sounds better, is valid grammatically, and still fits the meter.
So the sentence in context would read:
[I see] faces of men who had long believed you dead.
What do you think?
Posted Jun 20, 2025, 12:29 AM UTC