Next To Normal Song Of Forgetting
DAN
This house and all these rooms
Last Christmas or last year
Out back the dogwood blooms
DIANA
Do I really live here?
DAN
The paint, the walls
All this glass and wood
You don't recall?
DIANA
How I wish I could
DAN
Our house on Walton Way
The house with the red door
Our trip to Saint-Tropez
The whole week of downpour
NATALIE
My first few steps
And my first lost tooth
What, nothing yet?
DIANA
To tell the truth....
DAN
Sing a song of forgetting
A song of the way things were not
Sing if what's lost to you
Of times that you never knew
Sing of not remembering when
Of mem'ries that go unremembered and then
Sing a song of forgetting
Again
That day our child was born
Our baby girl's first cry
That grey and drizzly morn
I never felt so high
DIANA
The day we met and we shared two beers
DAN
Then?
DIANA
I forget
DAN
But that's nineteen years....
NATALIE
What a lovely cure
It's a medical miracle
With a mind so pure
That she doesn't know anything
DAN
It's there, I'm sure
'Cause mem'ries don't die
NATALIE
Die
DAN
They don't die
NATALIE
They die
DIANA
I try
DAN
Sing a song of forgetting
NATALIE
Sing a song of forgetting
DIANA
Sing a song of forgetting
DAN
A song of the way things were not
NATALIE
A song of the way things were not
DIANA
The way things were not
DAN
Sing of what's lost to you
DIANA, NATALIE
What's lost to you
What's lost to you
DAN
Of times that you never knew
DIANA, NATALIE
What's lost to you
You never knew
DAN, DIANA, NATALIE
Sing of not remembering when
Of mem'ries that go unremembered and then
DAN
Sing a song of forgetting
NATALIE
Sing a song of forgetting
DIANA
Sing a song of forgetting
DAN, DIANA, NATALIE
Again...
