Next To Normal feat. Aaron Tveit, Adam Chanler-Berat, Alice Ripley, J. Robert Spencer, Jennifer Damiano and Louis Hobson Lyrics
"Just Another Day"

Diana:
They're the perfect
Loving family, so adoring...
And I love them
Every day of every week.

So my son's a little shit,
My husband's boring,
And my daughter,
Though a genius, is a freak.

Still I help them
Love each other
Father, mother,
Sister, brother,
Cheek to cheek!

[Spoken]
Natalie? It's four in the morning—is everything ok?

Natalie: [Spoken]
Everything's great, why wouldn't it be great? It's great!

Diana: [Spoken]
Honey, you need to slow down, take some time for yourself.
I'm going to have sex with your father.

Natalie: [Spoken]
Great. Thanks. I'm so glad I know that.
[Sung]
So it's times like these
I wonder how I take it—
And if other fam'lies
Live the way we do...
If they love each other
Or if they just fake it,
And if other daughter
Feel like I feel too...

'Cause some days
I think I'm dying—
But I'm really only
Trying to get through.

Gabe:
For just another day...
For another stolen hour,
When the world will
Feel my power and obey.

Gabe & Natalie:
It's just another day...

Gabe:
Feeling like I'll live forever...

Natalie:
Feeling like this feeling never goes away...

Gabe & Natalie:
For just another day.

Dan: [Diana:]
When it's up to you
To hold your house together...
A house you built with
Patience and with care...
But you're grappling with
That grey and rainy weather,
And you're living on a latte
And a prayer— [Prayer—]

Dan & Diana:
Can you keep
The cup from tipping?
Can you keep
The grip from slipping in despair?
For just another day.

Dan & Gabe:
In the hustle and the hurry.

Dan:
You want to wipe
Your worry clean away.

Diana, Dan & Gabe:
For just another day.

Diana:
I will keep the
Plates all spinning—

Diana & Natalie:
With a smile so white
And winning all the way—

All:
'Cause what doesn't kill me
Doesn't kill me,
So fill me up
For just another day.

Diana:
It only hurts when I breathe.

Dan:
It only hurts when I try.

Gabe:
It only hurts when I think.

Natalie:
It only hurts when I cry.

Dan:
It only hurts when I work.

Gabe:
It only hurts when I play.

Natalie:
It only hurts when I move.

All:
It only hurts when I say...

Dan, Natalie & Gabe: [Diana:]
It's just another day [A busy, busy day.]
And the morning sun
Is stunning, [I will hold it all together.]
And you wish that you
Were running far away. [I will hide the mess away.]
It's just another day— [And I'll survive another day.]
Birds are singing,
Things are growing, [And I will pray]
And you wish [To hold on]
You could be going [Just this way,]
But you stay. [And you stay]
And stay forever, [And for my fam'ly's sake]
Though you know [I'll take what I can take—]
It's now or never,
And you know [I'm only just awake...]
That for forever...

Diana:
Every day is just another...
And another... and another...
I will hold it all together.
We're the perfect loving fam'ly.
If they say we're not, then fuck 'em—
The perfect loving fam'ly.
I will keep the plates all spinning,
And the world just keeps on spinning,
[Spoken]
And I think the house is spinning...