Next To Normal - Song Of Forgetting lyrics

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Dan:<br />

This house and all these rooms?<br />

Last Christmas or last year?<br />

Out back the dogwood blooms—<br />

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Diana:<br />

Do I really live here?<br />

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Dan:<br />

The paint, the walls... <br />

All this glass and wood... <br />

You don't recall?<br />

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Diana:<br />

How I wish I could.<br />

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Dan:<br />

Our house on Walton Way—<br />

The house with the red door?<br />

Our trip to St. Tropez—<br />

The whole week a downpour?<br />

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Natalie:<br />

My first few steps... <br />

And my first lost tooth... <br />

What, nothing yet?<br />

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Diana:<br />

To tell the truth... <br />

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Dan:<br />

Sing a song of forgetting... <br />

A song of the way things were not.<br />

Sing of what's lost to you, <br />

Of times that you never knew... <br />

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Sing of not remembering when, <br />

Of memories that go<br />

Unremembered, and then<br />

Sing a song of forgetting again.<br />

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That day our child was born—<br />

Our baby girl's first cry?<br />

That grey and drizzly morn—<br />

I've never felt so high.<br />

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Diana:<br />

The day we met... <br />

And we shared two beers... <br />

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Dan:<br />

Then?<br />

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Diana:<br />

I forget.<br />

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Dan:<br />

But that's nineteen years.<br />

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Natalie:<br />

What a lovely cure—<br />

It's a medical miracle.<br />

With a mind so pure<br />

That she doesn't know anything.<br />

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Dan:<br />

It's there, I'm sure— Natalie:<br />

'Cause memories don't die. Why? Diana:<br />

They don't die. They die... I'll try.<br />

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Dan, Natalie & Diana:<br />

Sing a song of forgetting<br />

A song of the way things were not.<br />

Sing of what's lost to you, <br />

Of times that you never knew.<br />

<br />

Sing of not remembering when, <br />

Of memories that go<br />

Unremembered, and then<br />

Sing a song of forgetting<br />

Again.