Misc Musicals – Next To Normal - Song Of Forgetting (Guitar)

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I am writing these chords for piano so I apologize if the tuning is off. [Intro] Bbsus4 Bbm x2 Fsus4 Fm DAN
Bbsus4     Bbm                 Bbsus4
This house and all these rooms

 Bbm                Fsus4  Fm     Bbsus4
Last Christmas or last year

          Bbm                Bbsus4
Out back the dogwood blooms
DIANA
Bbm            Fsus4  Fm
Do I really live here?
DAN
     Dbadd9     Db
The paint, the walls

          Dbadd9    Db
All this glass and wood

     Dbadd9  Db
You don't recall?
DIANA
       Dbmadd9     Bbsus4
How I wish I could
DAN
          Bbm            Bbsus4
Our house on Walton Way

     Bbm            Fsus4    Fm
The house with the red door

Bbsus4    Bbm          Bbsus4
Our trip to San Tropez

Bbm                Fsus4   Fm
The whole week a downpour
NATALIE
   Dbadd9     Db              Dbadd9   Db
My first few steps, and my first lost tooth

  Dbmadd9     Dbm
What nothing yet?
DIANA
        Dbmadd9
Well to tell the truth
NATALIE (spoken) Jesus. DAN
   Absus2 Ab       Absus2  Ab
Sing a song of forgetting

   Absus2/G   Ab/G                Absus2/G
A song of the way things were not

 Ab/G          Fsus4   Fm     Fsus4
Sing of what's lost to you

Fm               Bb7sus4    Bb  Bb7sus4
Of time that you never knew

  Absus2   Ab             Absus2  Ab
Sing of not remembering when

   Absus2/G      Ab/G        Fsus4   Fm
Of memories that go unremembered and then

Bb7sus4 Bbm          Bb7sus4             Fsus4  Fm
Sing a song of forgetting, again

Bbsus4    Bbm              Bbsus4
That day our child was born

  Bbm             Fsus4    Fm
Our baby girl's first cry

Bbsus4     Bbm            Bbsus4
That gray and drizzly morn

Bbm          Fsus4     Fm
I've never felt so high
DIANA
  Dbadd9    Db
The day we met

        Dbadd9   Db
And we shared 2 beers
DAN Then? DIANA
Dbmadd9 Dbm
I forget.
DAN
     Dbmadd9
But that's 19 years

(dialogue) Fm7/Bb  Bbsus4
NATALIE

        Fm7/Bb     Fm7
What a lovely cure

                      Fm7/Bb
It's a medical miracle

Bbsus4      Fm7/Bb  Fm7
With a mind so pure

                              Fm7/Bb
That she doesn't know anything
DAN
Bbsus4   Fm7/Bb    Fm7
It's there I'm sure

                     Bb7sus4
Cause memories don't die.
(Overlapping) NATALIE Why DAN They don't die NATALIE
      Bb7
They die
DIANA
     Bb7sus4 Bb7
I'll try
(overlapping) DIANA Abadd9 Ab
Abadd9 Ab          Abadd9/G  Ab/G
Sing a song of forgetting

                   Abadd9/G  Ab/G
A song of the way things were not

              Fsus4   Fm
Sing of what's lost to you

  Fm7     Fsus4  Fm
What's lost to you

 Fm7    Bb7sus4
What's lost to you

      Bb  Bb7sus4
You never knew
ALL
Ab       Abadd9          Ab   Abadd9
Sing of not remembering when

    Ab/G        Abadd9/G   Fsus4    Fm     Bb7sus4
Of memories that go unremembered and when
DAN
         Bbm      Bb7sus4
Sing a song of forgetting
NATALIE
        Bbm          Bb7sus4
Sing a song of forgetting
DIANA
      Bbm
Sing a song of forgetting
ALL Again