Maybe (Next To Normal)

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

Lyrics

[00:05.94] Maybe I've lost it at last
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[00:11.54] Maybe my last lucid moment has passed
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[00:17.16] I'm dancing with death, I suppose
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[00:22.43] But really who knows?
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[00:27.25] Could be I'm crazy to go
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[00:32.27] They say you should stay with the devil you know
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[00:40.00] But when life needs a change and the one devil won't
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[00:48.44] You fly to the devil, you don't
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[00:56.51] Maybe I'm tired of the game
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[01:01.95] Of coming up short of the rules of the shame
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[01:07.49] And maybe you feel that way too
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[01:12.88] I see me in you
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[01:17.30] A girl full of anger and hope
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[01:22.85] A girl with a mother who just couldn't cope
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[01:31.06] A girl who felt caught and thought no one could see
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[01:39.01] That maybe one day she'll be free
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[01:43.96] It's so lovely that you're sharing
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[01:46.70] No really I'm all ears
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[01:49.44] But where has all this caring been for sixteen years?
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[01:55.03] For all those years I'd prayed that you'd go away for good
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[02:01.67] Half the time afraid that you really would
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[02:06.89] When I thought you might be dying
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[02:08.97] I cried for all we've never be
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[02:12.23] But there'll be no more crying, not for me
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[02:19.65] Things will get better you'll see
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[02:22.38] Not for me, you'll see
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[02:27.80] Not for me, you'll see
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[02:31.49] Not for me, you'll see
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[02:32.49] Not for me, you'll see
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[02:39.82] Maybe we can't be okay
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[02:45.33] But maybe we're tough and we'll try anyway
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[02:52.70] We'll live with what's real
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[02:57.47] Let go of what's passed and maybe I'll see you at last
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[03:10.12] We tried to give you a normal life
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[03:14.82] I realize now I have no clue what that is
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[03:19.03] I don't need a life that's normal, that's way too far away
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[03:26.89] But something next to normal would be okay
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[03:32.71] Yeah, something next to normal
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[03:35.78] That's the thing I'd like to try
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[03:39.32] Close enough to normal to get by
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[03:48.59] We'll get by, we'll get by
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