[She's suitably nervous -- but, like with every performance, Rachel takes a deep breath, and the nerves fall away, and she sings.
It's different, really, from any other song Rachel sings, because it's her. Every single ounce of pain and suffering and hurt that Rachel has ever suffered, from Finn to Jesse to Quinn to Kurt to Santana, is poured into the song. Everything.
It sounds just as powerful a capella as it does with the backing instruments. Perhaps even moreso, without the added distraction. But when it ends, her eyes are full of tears, but her smile is firmly in place, warm and thrilled, as it always is when she is done singing.]
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[She's suitably nervous -- but, like with every performance, Rachel takes a deep breath, and the nerves fall away, and she sings.
It's different, really, from any other song Rachel sings, because it's her. Every single ounce of pain and suffering and hurt that Rachel has ever suffered, from Finn to Jesse to Quinn to Kurt to Santana, is poured into the song. Everything.
It sounds just as powerful a capella as it does with the backing instruments. Perhaps even moreso, without the added distraction. But when it ends, her eyes are full of tears, but her smile is firmly in place, warm and thrilled, as it always is when she is done singing.]