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[ti:Why Stay? / A Promise] |
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[ar:Robert Spencer] |
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[al:Next to Normal (Original Broadway Cast Recording)] |
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Why stay |
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Why stay |
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So steadfast and stolid and stoic and sold |
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For day after every day |
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Why stay |
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Why stay |
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Why not simply give in and get on with living |
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Cause everyone knows you tried |
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But somewhere something died on the way |
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Tell me why you stay |
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Why stay |
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Why stay |
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Enduring and coping and hurting and hoping |
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For day after fucking day |
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Why stay |
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Why stay |
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Why not simply end it |
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All comprehend it |
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And most of the world would say |
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He's better off that way to be free |
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And maybe so is she |
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A promise |
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A boy says forever |
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A boy says |
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Whatever may come well come through |
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And who can know how when all I know now |
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To be true is this promise that I make to you |
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A question |
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A boy wonders whether |
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A boy wonders |
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The two stay together |
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The way that they stay |
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For year after year |
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For love or foe fear |
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Either way |
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That's the promise |
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That I made that day |
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Here's what I say |
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To the girl who was burning so brightly |
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Like the light from the orion above |
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And still I will search for her nightly |
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If you see her please send her my love |
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And the boy was a boy for all seasons |
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The boy is long |
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The boy is long-lost to me now |
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So lost |
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The man has forgotten his reasons |
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But the man still remembers his vow |
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A promise |
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A man say forever |
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A man says I'll never regret or let you |
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The promise I made to stay |
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And I stayed true |
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Knowing one day wed remember that joy |
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You'd remember that girl |
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I'd remember that boy |
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Til we do the promise I made |
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I'll make it brand new |
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The promise that I made to you |