[ti:Why Stay? / A Promise]
[ar:Robert Spencer]
[al:Next to Normal (Original Broadway Cast Recording)]
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[00:01.30]Why stay
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[00:04.61]Why stay
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[00:07.11]So steadfast and stolid and stoic and sold
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[00:12.60]For day after every day
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[00:16.30]Why stay
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[00:18.08]Why stay
[00:19.84]
[00:20.82]Why not simply give in and get on with living
[00:23.45]Cause everyone knows you tried
[00:25.49]But somewhere something died on the way
[00:30.10]
[00:30.65]Tell me why you stay
[00:31.70]Why stay
[00:32.79]Why stay
[00:33.81]Enduring and coping and hurting and hoping
[00:35.88]For day after fucking day
[00:38.02]Why stay
[00:39.21]Why stay
[00:40.27]Why not simply end it
[00:41.56]All comprehend it
[00:42.41]And most of the world would say
[00:44.26]He's better off that way to be free
[00:48.83]
[00:49.38]And maybe so is she
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[00:53.93]A promise
[00:54.66]A boy says forever
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[00:57.24]A boy says
[00:57.91]Whatever may come well come through
[01:00.81]And who can know how when all I know now
[01:03.76]To be true is this promise that I make to you
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[01:11.40]A question
[01:12.26]A boy wonders whether
[01:14.02]A boy wonders
[01:15.09]The two stay together
[01:16.52]The way that they stay
[01:18.37]For year after year
[01:20.25]For love or foe fear
[01:21.52]Either way
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[01:23.30]That's the promise
[01:24.57]That I made that day
[01:27.52]Here's what I say
[01:28.59]To the girl who was burning so brightly
[01:32.13]Like the light from the orion above
[01:35.94]And still I will search for her nightly
[01:39.15]If you see her please send her my love
[01:42.45]And the boy was a boy for all seasons
[01:45.68]The boy is long
[01:46.90]The boy is long-lost to me now
[01:49.32]So lost
[01:50.29]The man has forgotten his reasons
[01:53.33]But the man still remembers his vow
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[01:59.25]A promise
[02:00.01]A man say forever
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[02:02.77]A man says I'll never regret or let you
[02:06.39]The promise I made to stay
[02:09.02]And I stayed true
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[02:13.51]Knowing one day wed remember that joy
[02:16.93]You'd remember that girl
[02:18.21]I'd remember that boy
[02:20.19]Til we do the promise I made
[02:23.06]I'll make it brand new
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[02:26.83]The promise that I made to you