Song

It’s Hard to Speak My Heart

by Ben Platt · from Parade (2023 Broadway Cast Recording)

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Review by lena★★★★Sample

the sequencing here is criminally underrated. “It’s Hard to Speak My Heart” into the next one?? come on.

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Review by Yuki Tanaka★★★½Sample

I respect it more than I love it. “It’s Hard to Speak My Heart” is undeniable though.

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1
Prologue: The Old Red Hills of Home
sample avg 3.3
6:44
2
The Dream of Atlanta
sample avg 3.0 · Parade Cast
0:33
3
How Can I Call This Home?
sample avg 3.8 · Ben Platt & Parade Cast
2:42
4
The Picture Show
sample avg 3.7 · Jake Pedersen & Erin Rose Doyle
2:00
5
Leo at Work / What Am I Waiting For?
sample avg 4.0 · Ben Platt, Micaela Diamond & Parade Cast
3:06
6
Interrogation Sequence
sample avg 3.0 · Eddie Cooper
1:39
7
Funeral Sequence: There is a Fountain / It Don’t Make Sense
sample avg 3.7 · Jake Pedersen & Parade Cast
5:39
8
Real Big News
sample avg 3.1 · Jay Armstrong Johnson, Jackson Teeley, Florrie Bagel, William Michals, Beth Kirkpatrick & Parade Cast
3:17
9
You Don’t Know This Man
sample avg 4.0 · Micaela Diamond
2:21
10
The Trial: Hammer of Justice
sample avg 3.9 · Manoel Felciano & Parade Cast
2:01
11
Twenty Miles from Marietta
sample avg 3.4 · Paul Alexander Nolan
1:14
12
The Factory Girls / Come Up to My Office
sample avg 3.9 · Erin Rose Doyle, Sophia Manicone, Emily Rose DeMartino, Ashlyn Maddox & Ben Platt
5:00
13
Minnie’s Testimony
sample avg 3.6 · Manoel Felciano, Danielle Lee Greaves & Paul Alexander Nolan
1:11
14
My Child Will Forgive Me
sample avg 3.0 · Kelli Barrett
2:18
15
That’s What He Said
sample avg 3.1 · Alex Joseph Grayson & Parade Cast
3:32
16
It’s Hard to Speak My Heart
sample avg 3.2 · Ben Platt
2:57
17
Closing Statement & Verdict
sample avg 3.9 · Parade Cast
2:24
18
Act Two Prelude
sample avg 3.0 · Manoel Felciano & Parade Cast
1:01
19
A Rumblin’ and a Rollin’
sample avg 4.0 · Douglas Lyons, Courtnee Carter, Eddie Cooper & Danielle Lee Greaves
3:31
20
Do It Alone
sample avg 2.9 · Micaela Diamond
2:19
21
Pretty Music
sample avg 4.0 · Sean Allan Krill
2:41
22
The Glory
sample avg 4.1 · Howard McGillin & Paul Alexander Nolan
3:35
23
This Is Not Over Yet
sample avg 3.7 · Ben Platt & Micaela Diamond
2:52
24
Blues: Feel the Rain Fall
sample avg 3.2 · Alex Joseph Grayson & Parade Cast
4:01
25
Where Will You Stand When the Flood Comes?
sample avg 3.4 · Manoel Felciano, Paul Alexander Nolan & Parade Cast
3:29
26
All the Wasted Time
sample avg 2.9 · Ben Platt & Micaela Diamond
4:56
27
Sh’ma
sample avg 3.5 · Ben Platt
0:30
28
Finale
sample avg 3.7 · Micaela Diamond, Jake Pedersen & Parade Cast
3:18