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[ti:Better Than Before] |
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[ar:Alice Ripley] |
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[al:Next to Normal (Original Broadway Cast Recording)] |
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The memories are there |
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Somewhere |
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Find some pictures you can share |
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Keepsakes of the life that's |
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There behind her |
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Keep it light at first that's best |
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Careful that she's not distressed |
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When the time's right |
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Tell the rest |
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Remind her |
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You'll find her |
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So let's start with something small |
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Something personal and pretty |
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I bet you'll know these shiny things |
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They must be tacky trinkets from I guess atlantic city |
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No actu'ly di |
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They're our wedding rings |
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It's going well |
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Here's a flower from our wedding |
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You were such a sight to see |
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And the ceremony everything we'd hoped |
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Um dad |
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Well that's how I remember it |
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So that's how it'll be |
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It was raining |
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It was portland |
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You eloped |
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I mean portland |
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It's an open book to write here |
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It's a life we can restore |
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We can get back what we had |
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And maybe more |
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Maybe get us back to better |
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Than before |
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Here's the year we drove the west |
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We hit the highway in the honda |
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And I took pictures |
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Everywhere we went |
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We saw the painted desert |
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The grand canyon |
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And aunt rhonda |
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And nat learned what |
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Her middle finger meant |
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Here's the first house that we owned |
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On walton way we loved that place |
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Then we built this one on land |
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That we both chose |
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And here's a pic of all of us |
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With smiles on ev'ry face |
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And the photoshopping |
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Hardly even shows |
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We're standing by a lake |
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With all theses ducks |
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And who's this little chubby girl |
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That's natalie |
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This sucks |
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Gonna get us back to normal |
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Gonna get us back to good |
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Gonna get back what we had |
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And maybe more |
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Gonna get us back to good times |
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And forget the things we should |
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Gonna get us back to better than before |
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We can get things back to better than before |
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All right fine |
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Here's the headline in the paper |
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When you freaked out at the market |
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Here's the house on walton way |
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After the fire |
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Natalie |
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Here's the damage to the honda |
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When you showed me how to park it |
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Did we crush somebody's cat beneath the tire |
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Yes ours |
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Here's dad at my recital |
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And we're wond'ring where you are |
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I remember this |
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I made it to the school |
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Wait you remember |
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It was the year of too much lithium |
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I hid out in the car |
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Yes |
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And your swim meet |
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Just last year |
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I'm in the pool |
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So you are |
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You're getting it |
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You've got it di |
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Hooray |
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Your life has kind of sucked |
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I think |
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You got it yay |
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Hooray hooray hooray |
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Gonna get back what I lost there |
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Gonna find out who I was |
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Gonna open up the gates and let it pour |
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And if mem'ry makes things better |
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Well mem'ry always does |
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Gonna get us back to better than before |
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Make ev'rything much better than before |
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Won't anything be |
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Better than before |
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I guess is must be |
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Better than before |
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Better than before |