Next to Normal

Gemini Cricket · 06-09-2009, 04:10 PM

Ufta!

So, I watched the Tony's and was blown away by the song from "Next to Normal". I loved it. So, I just decided to get it. Can I just say that it's the best thing I've heard since "Rent"? I mean, it's truly awesome.

For the longest time I thought about how very few things out there (music-wise, movie-wise) touched me. And then, boom, this comes along.

I mean, we all know about my crazy family, but to have it put in a Broadway musical is just intensely wonderful.

"Next to Normal" is like Ordinary People meets "Rent". Hard to explain how, tho. But it just is.

Here's an example of the lyrics:

Quote:

DIANA (spoken)
You know, really?
What exactly do you know?

DAN (spoken)
I know you're hurting. I am, too.

DIANA
Do you wake up in the morning and need help to lift your head?
Do you read obituaries and feel jealous of the dead?
It's like living on a cliffside not knowing when you'll dive.
Do you know, do you know what it's like to die alive?

When the world that once had color fades to white and gray and black.
When tomorrow terrifies you, but you'll die if you look back.
You don't know.
I know you don't know.
You say that you're hurting, it sure doesn't show.
You don't know.
You tell me let go.
And you may say so, but I say you don't know.

The sensation that you're screaming, but you never make a sound.
Or the feeling that you're falling, but you never hit the ground.
It just keeps on rushing at you day by day by day by day.
You don't know, you don't know what it's like to live that way.
Like a refugee, a fugitive, forever on the run.
If it gets me it will kill me, but I don't know what I've done.

I mean, holy shyt!

Anyway, it's worth a listen to and if you didn't see the Tony's here's a clip of the performance of "You Don't Know" and "I am the One" from "Next to Normal".
Here's the same performance with an intro by Carrie Fisher... awesome.

ETA: I never know when to put quotes or italicize something. I think quotes are for plays, songs and books and italics are for films? Anyway, I'm sure you understand what I mean by the above...