2009 Broadway Next to Normal the Musical - Better Than Before Lyrics
DR. MADDEN The memories are there somewhere. Find some pictures you can share.. Keepsakes of the life that's there behind her. Keep it light at first that's best, Careful that she's not distressed, When the time's right, tell the rest Remind her. You'll find her.
DAN So let's start with something small, Something personal, and pretty, I bet you'll know these shiny things...
DIANA (spoken) They must be tacky trinkets from, I guess, Atlantic City?
DAN No, actually, Di, they're our wedding rings.
NATALIE (spoken) It's going well...
DAN Here's a flower from our wedding, It was such a sight to see. And the ceremony; everything w'ed hoped!
NATALIE (spoken) Um, Dad...
DAN Well that's how I remember it, So that's how it'll be.
NATALIE It was raining. It was Portland. You eloped. (spoken) I mean, Portland?!
DAN It's an open book to write here. It's a life we can restore. We can get back what we had and maybe more. Maybe get us back to better than before.
Here's the year we drove the west. We hit the highway in the Honda, And I took pictures everywhere we went. We saw the painted desert, the Grand Canyon, and Aunt Rhonda. And Nat learned what her middle finger meant. Here's the first house that we owned on Walton Way, We loved that place. Then we built this one on land that we both chose. And here's a pick of all of us with smiles on every face. And the photoshopping hardly even shows.
DIANA You're standing by a lake with all these ducks... And who's this little chubby girl?
DAN That's Natalie!
NATALIE This sucks.
DAN Gonna get us back to normal. Gonna get us back to good. Gonna get back what we had and maybe more. Gonna get us back to good times, And forget the things we should Gonna get us back to better than before. We can get things back to better than before.
NATALIE (spoken) Alright, fine. (sung) Here's the headline in the paper when you freaked out at the market. Here's the house on Walton Way after the fire.
DAN (spoken): Natalie!
NATALIE Here's the damage to the Honda when you showed me how to park it.
DIANA Did we crush somebody's cat beneath the tire?
NATALIE (spoken) Yes, OURS!
DAN Here's Dad at my recital, And we're wondering where you are.
DIANA I remember this, I made it to the school.
DAN (spoken): Wait, you remember?
DIANA It was the year of too much lithium, I hid out in the car.
DAN (spoken): Yes!
DIANA And your swim meet just last year, I'm in the pool..
NATALIE (spoken) So you are.
DAN You're getting it, You've got it, Di. Hooray!
DIANA Your life has kind of sucked, I think.
NATALIE You've got it, yay, hooray!
DAN Hooray!
DIANA Hooray! Gonna get back what I lost there. Gonna find out who I was. Gonna open up the gates and let it pour.
DAN And if memory makes things better, Well memory always does. Gonna get us back to better than before.
DIANA & DAN Make everything much better than before.
NATALIE Won't anything be better than before?
DIANA I guess it must be
DAN, DIANA & NATALIE Better than before. Better than before.
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SYNOPSIS Prelude Just Another Day Everything Else Who's Crazy/My Psychopharmacologist and I Perfect for You I Miss the Mountains It's Gonna Be Good He's Not Here You Don't Know I Am the One Superboy and the Invisible Girl I'm Alive Catch Me I'm Falling I Dreamed a Dance There's a World I've Been Didn't I See This Movie? A Light in the Dark Wish I Were Here Song of Forgetting Hey №1 Seconds and Years Better Than Before Aftershocks Hey № 2 You Don't Know (Reprise) How Could I Ever Forget? It's Gonna Be Good (Reprise) Why Stay? I'm Alive (Reprise) The Break Catch Me I'm Falling (Reprise) Maybe (Next to Normal) Hey № 3 / Perfect for You (Reprise) So Anyway I Am The One (Reprise) Light
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