[ti:Better Than Before]
[ar:Alice Ripley]
[al:Next to Normal (Original Broadway Cast Recording)]
[offset:0]
[00:00.35]The memories are there
[00:01.98]Somewhere
[00:02.94]Find some pictures you can share
[00:05.49]Keepsakes of the life that's
[00:07.23]There behind her
[00:10.37]
[00:13.68]Keep it light at first that's best
[00:16.14]Careful that she's not distressed
[00:18.72]When the time's right
[00:20.22]Tell the rest
[00:21.45]Remind her
[00:24.07]You'll find her
[00:27.56]
[00:32.23]So let's start with something small
[00:34.87]Something personal and pretty
[00:37.30]
[00:38.30]I bet you'll know these shiny things
[00:41.29]
[00:42.79]They must be tacky trinkets from I guess atlantic city
[00:47.56]No actu'ly di
[00:49.51]They're our wedding rings
[00:51.41]It's going well
[00:52.79]Here's a flower from our wedding
[00:55.28]You were such a sight to see
[00:57.95]And the ceremony everything we'd hoped
[01:01.68]Um dad
[01:03.22]Well that's how I remember it
[01:05.92]So that's how it'll be
[01:08.10]It was raining
[01:09.36]It was portland
[01:10.66]You eloped
[01:11.99]I mean portland
[01:14.03]It's an open book to write here
[01:16.76]It's a life we can restore
[01:18.86]
[01:19.37]We can get back what we had
[01:21.39]And maybe more
[01:22.96]
[01:24.42]Maybe get us back to better
[01:26.62]Than before
[01:28.07]
[01:34.65]Here's the year we drove the west
[01:36.84]We hit the highway in the honda
[01:39.36]
[01:40.02]And I took pictures
[01:41.68]Everywhere we went
[01:43.27]
[01:44.70]We saw the painted desert
[01:47.01]The grand canyon
[01:48.26]And aunt rhonda
[01:50.16]And nat learned what
[01:50.96]Her middle finger meant
[01:53.40]
[01:54.76]Here's the first house that we owned
[01:57.06]On walton way we loved that place
[01:59.68]
[02:00.26]Then we built this one on land
[02:02.34]That we both chose
[02:03.95]
[02:04.92]And here's a pic of all of us
[02:07.72]With smiles on ev'ry face
[02:10.32]And the photoshopping
[02:12.24]Hardly even shows
[02:13.63]
[02:15.64]We're standing by a lake
[02:17.59]With all theses ducks
[02:19.13]
[02:20.93]And who's this little chubby girl
[02:23.71]That's natalie
[02:24.85]This sucks
[02:25.79]
[02:28.65]Gonna get us back to normal
[02:31.12]Gonna get us back to good
[02:33.04]
[02:33.63]Gonna get back what we had
[02:35.54]And maybe more
[02:37.04]
[02:38.72]Gonna get us back to good times
[02:41.30]And forget the things we should
[02:43.79]Gonna get us back to better than before
[02:47.13]
[02:48.85]We can get things back to better than before
[02:52.18]
[02:53.88]All right fine
[02:55.46]
[02:57.96]Here's the headline in the paper
[03:00.34]When you freaked out at the market
[03:02.96]Here's the house on walton way
[03:05.29]After the fire
[03:06.91]Natalie
[03:07.50]
[03:08.09]Here's the damage to the honda
[03:10.65]When you showed me how to park it
[03:13.33]Did we crush somebody's cat beneath the tire
[03:17.13]Yes ours
[03:19.11]Here's dad at my recital
[03:21.33]And we're wond'ring where you are
[03:24.38]I remember this
[03:25.56]I made it to the school
[03:28.05]Wait you remember
[03:29.71]It was the year of too much lithium
[03:32.25]
[03:32.77]I hid out in the car
[03:34.54]Yes
[03:34.98]And your swim meet
[03:36.54]Just last year
[03:37.62]I'm in the pool
[03:38.82]So you are
[03:40.43]You're getting it
[03:41.62]You've got it di
[03:42.98]Hooray
[03:43.80]
[03:45.64]Your life has kind of sucked
[03:47.57]I think
[03:47.99]You got it yay
[03:49.37]Hooray hooray hooray
[03:53.10]Gonna get back what I lost there
[03:55.47]Gonna find out who I was
[03:57.92]Gonna open up the gates and let it pour
[04:01.71]
[04:03.02]And if mem'ry makes things better
[04:05.10]Well mem'ry always does
[04:07.76]Gonna get us back to better than before
[04:11.42]
[04:13.00]Make ev'rything much better than before
[04:15.74]Won't anything be
[04:17.14]Better than before
[04:18.20]I guess is must be
[04:19.73]Better than before
[04:21.72]
[04:22.47]Better than before