Better Than Before

The memories are there somewhere

Find some pictures you can share

Keepsakes of the life that's there behind her

Do i bring up the subject of-

Yes, but

(sung)

Keep it light at first that's best

Careful that she's not distressed

When the time's right tell the rest

Remind her, you'll find her

So let's start with something small

Something personal and pretty

I bet you'll know these shiny things

They must be tacky trinkets from, I guess, Atlantic City?

No, actually, Di, they're our wedding rings

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

Um, Dad?

Well, that's how I remember it

So that's how it'll be

It was raining, it was Portland, you eloped

(spoken)

I mean, Portland?

It's an open book to write here

It's a life we can restore

We can get back what we had and maybe more

Maybe get us back to better than before

Uh, you're missing a few pictures here, dad, didn't the doctor say-

The doctor said at the right time

Oh, well then

Here's the year we drove the 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

Here's 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 here's a pic of all of us

With smiles on every face

And the photoshopping hardly even shows

We're standing by a lake with all these ducks

And who's this little chubby girl?

That's Natalie

This sucks

Hey, Nat

Nat!

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

Alright, fine. 

(sung)

Here's the headline in the paper

When you freaked out at the market

Here's the house on Walton Way after the fire

Natalie--

Here's the damage to the Honda

When you showed me how to park it

Did we crush somebody's cat beneath the tire?

Yes, ours. 

(sung)

Here's dad at my recital

And we're wondering where you are

I remember this, I made it to the school

Wait, you remember?

It was the year of too much lithium

I hid out in the car

Yes

And your swim meet just last year, I'm in the pool

So you are. 

You're getting it, you've got it Di, hooray

Your life has kind of sucked, I think

You've got it, yay

Hooray Hooray Hooray-yay!

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