Dr Madden:
The memories are there somewhere
Find some pictures you can share
Keepsakes of the life that's there behind her
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

Dan:
So let's start with something small,
Something personal, and pretty,
I bet you'll know these shiny things

Diana (spoken):
They must be tacky trinkets from, I guess, Atlantic City?

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

Natalie (spoken):
It's going well

Dan:
Here's a flower from our wedding,
You were such a sight to see
And the ceremony; everything we'd hoped!

Natalie (spoken):
Um, Dad

Dan:
Well that's how I remember it,
So that's how it'll be

Natalie:
It was raining
It was Portland
You eloped
(Spoken)
I mean, Portland!

Dan:
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

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 photo-shopping hardly even shows

Diana:
We're standing by a lake with all these ducks
And who's this little chubby girl?

Dan:
That's Natalie!

Natalie:
This sucks

Dan:
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

Natalie (spoken):
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

Dan (spoken):
Natalie!

Natalie:
Here's the damage to the Honda when you showed me how to park it

Diana:
Did we crush somebody's cat beneath the tire?

Natalie (spoken):
Yes, OURS!

Dan:
Here's Dad at my recital,
And we're wondering where you are

Diana:
I remember this,
I made it to the school

Dan (spoken):
Wait, you remember?

Diana:
It was the year of too much lithium,
I hid out in the car

Dan (spoken):
Yes!

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

Natalie (spoken):
So you are

Dan:
You're getting it,
You've got it, Di
Hooray!

Diana:
Your life has kind of sucked, I think

Natalie:
You've got it, yay, hooray!

Dan:
Hooray!

Diana:
Hooray!
Gonna get back what I lost there
Gonna find out who I was
Gonna open up the gates and let it pour

Dan:
And if memory makes things better,
Well, memory always does
Gonna get us back to better than before

Diana and Dan:
Make everything much better than before

Natalie:
Won't anything be better than before?

Diana:
I guess it must be

Dan, Diana and Natalie:
Better than before
Better than before