The Break

Song The Break
Artist Alice Ripley
Album Next To Normal (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

Lyrics

[00:02.69] They told me that the wiring was somehow all misfiring
[00:05.00] And screwing up the signals in my brain
[00:07.90] And then they told me chemistry, the juice and not the circuitry
[00:10.39] Was mixing up and making me insane
[00:13.10] What happens when the burn has healed, when the skin has not regrown?
[00:18.01]
[00:18.53] What happens when the cast at last comes off
[00:21.97]
[00:22.46] And then you find the break was always in another bone?
[00:29.40]
[00:31.89] They tried a million meds and they strapped me to their beds
[00:34.50]
[00:34.71] And they shrugged and told me that's the way it goes
[00:37.10]
[00:37.38] But finally you hit it, I asked you just what did it
[00:39.73]
[00:39.94] You shrugged and said that no one really knows
[00:41.90]
[00:42.58] What happens if the medicine wasn't really in control?
[00:47.60]
[00:48.04] What happens if the cut, the burn, the break
[00:51.41]
[00:52.02] Was never in my brain or in my blood but in my soul?
[00:59.03]
[01:01.38] What happens if the cut, the burn, the break
[01:06.84]
[01:08.52] Was never in my brain or in my blood but in my soul?
[01:21.50]