#whereas he’s more nonchalant in this — but this is still agonising

[antinouswilder]

Picked up a copy of the Next to Normal script when I saw it at the Donmar Warehouse and found this cut song in the back, presumably written as an alternative to the “imagining the ways you might have died” discussion at the start of Just Another Day, and suddenly it hurts all over again. Image descriptions under the cut:

Image ID: pictures of the Next to Normal script with the following song lyrics:

DIANA.

I worry you might die.

If you die

I swear to god I'll kill you.

Make a promise, will you?

Tell you why —

'Cause if you die, I die.

GABE.

Why worry? If I die,

Then I die.

So I might end up a sleeper —

No one stops the reaper,

So why try?

'Cause if I die, I die.

DIANA.

I die.

GABE.

I die.

DIANA.

I die.

GABE.

I die.

DIANA.

I die.

“If you die, I die” is underlined in pencil.