Better Than Before - Aaron Tveit

The memories are there somewhere

Find some pictures you can share

Keepsakes of the life thats there behind her

Keep it light at first thats best

Careful that shes not distressed

When the times right tell the rest

Remind her

You’ll find her

So lets start with something small

Something personal and pretty

I bet you’ll know these shiny things

(spoken) They must be tacky trinkets from I guess Atlantic City

No, actually Di they’re our wedding rings

(spoken) It’s going well

Here’s a flower from our wedding it was such a sight to see

And the ceremony, everything we’d hoped

(spoken) Um, Dad

Well thats how I remember it so thats how it’ll be

It was raining, it was Portland, you eloped

I mean Portland

Its an open book to write here

Its a life we can restore

We can get back what we had and maybe more

Maybe get us back to better than before

Heres the year we drove out west

We hit the highway in the Honda

And I took pictures everywhere we went

We saw the painted desert, the Grand canyon, and Aunt Rhonda

And Nat learned what her middle finger meant

Heres the first house that we owned

On Walton Way, we loved that place

Then we built this one on land that we both chose

And heres a pic of all of us with smiles on every face

And the photoshopping hardly even shows

You’re standing by a lake with all these ducks

And whose this little chubby girl

Thats Natalie

This sucks

Gonna get us back to normal

Gonna get us back to good

Gonna get back what we had and maybe more

Gonna get us back to good times

And forget the things we should

Gonna get us back to better than before

We can get things back to better than before

(spoken) Alright, fine

Heres the headline in the paper when you freaked out at the market

Heres the house on Walton Way after the fire

(spoken) Natalie

Heres the damage to the Honda

when you showed me how to park it

Did we crush somebodys cat beneath the tire?

Yes ours!

Heres dad at my recital and we’re wondering where you are

I remember this, I made it to the school

(spoken) Wait, you remember?

It was the year of too much lithium

I hid out in the car

(spoken) Yes

And your swim meet just last year

I’m in the pool

(spoken) So, you are

You’re getting it

You got it Di, hooray

Your life has kinda sucked I think

You’ve got it yay hooray

Hooray

Gonna get back what I lost there

Gonna find out who I was

Gonna open up the gates and let it pour

And if memory makes things better

Well, memory always does

Gonna get us back to better than before

Make everything much better than before

Won’t anything be better than before

I guess it must be better than before

Better than before