Next to Normal: “So Anyway” My Favorite…Spoiler Alert!
I already have several posts about Next to Normal on my blog; however, this one is about my favorite song from the show. The song “So Anyway” is just so simple but carries so much weight. Its beautiful melody with the vocals by Alice Ripley creates such an air of anxiousness, conflict, and hopefulness…She is leaving her husband to allow herself the chance to live. It’s a song of decision, and it’s evident that she doesn’t know what will become of herself…But I’ll let the song and the lyrics speak for themselves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvL3CDC7Rr8
“So Anyway”
DIANA
So anyway I’m leavingI thought you’d like to know
You faithful come-what-may
But clearly I can’t stay
We’d both go mad that way
So here I go
And anyway I’m leaving
I guess that you can see
I’ll try this on my own
A life I’ve never know.I’ll face the dread alone
But I’ll be free.
With you always beside me
To catch me when I fall
I’d never get to know the feel
Of solid ground at all
With you always believing
That we can still come through
It makes me feel the fool
To know that it’s not true
What doctors call dysfunction
We tried to call romance
And true it’s quite a trick
To tell the dancers from the dance
But rather than let chance take me
I’ll take a chance
I’ll take a chance on leaving
It’s that or stay and die
I loved you once and though
You love me still I know
It’s time for me to fly
I loved you once and though
I love you still I know
It’s time for me to go
And so, goodbye
Written by uncannynerdyguy
March 26, 2010 at 1:09 pm
Posted in Entertainment, Musical
Tagged with Alice Ripley, next to normal, so anyway, youtube
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Jeez. Spoiler alert!
Creaves
March 26, 2010 at 2:13 pm
They were going to get that from the song anyway if they read the post.
barryr22
March 26, 2010 at 2:16 pm