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But they pulled me out of the sack,

And they stuck me together with glue.

And then I knew what to do.

I made a model of you,

A man in black with a Meinkampf look

And a love of the rack and the screw.

And I said I do, I do.

So daddy, I'm finally through.

The black telephone's off at the root.

The voices just can't worm through

- Daddy, Sylvia Plath

When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes


I all alone be weep my outcast state,


And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,


And look upon myself, and curse my fate,


Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,


Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,


Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,


With what I most enjoy contented least;


Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,


Haply I think on thee, and then my state,


Like to the lark at break of day arising


From sullen earth, sing hymns at heaven's gate,


For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings


That then I scorn to change my state with kings.


- Sonnet XXIX, William Shakespeare



Day after day,
Wishing all our cares away.
Trying to fight the things we feel,
But some hurts never heal.
Some ghost are never gone,
But we go on,
We still go on.

- Next to Normal



Do you wake up in the morning and need help to lift your head?
Do you read obituaries and feel jealous of the dead?
It's like living on a cliffside not knowing when you'll dive.
Do you know, do you know what it's like to die alive?

- Next to Normal



And all shall fade 

The flowers of spring 

The world and all the sorrow 

At the heart of everything

But still it stays 

The butterfly sings 

And opens purple summer 

With the flutter of its wings

- Spring Awakening













GABE 

There's a world, there's a world I know 

A place we can go where the pain will go away 

There's a world where the sun shines each day 

There's a world, there's a world out there 

I'll show you just where 

And in time I know you'll see 

There's a world where we can be free 

Come with me 

DR. MADDEN (spoken) 

Goodman, Diana. 

GABE 

Come with me 

DR. MADDEN (spoken) 

Discovered unconscious at home. 

GABE 

There's a world where we can be free 

DR. MADDEN (spoken) 

Multiple razor wounds to wrist and forearms. Self-inflicted


GABE
Come with me 

DR. MADDEN (spoken) 

Sutures, gauze, antibiotics, sedated and restrained. Damnit. ECT is indicated.

- Next to Normal

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