N2N Twitter パフォーマンス & 新曲 “Something I Can’t See”を披露

2009年10月28日午後7時、92Yトライベッカでアーロンとルイ・ホブソン（Dr.マッデン役）が、Next to Normalの新曲、 “Something I Can’t See”を披露しました。

この曲はNext to NormalのTwitterキャンペーンで、フォロワーからの4,000以上の提案に基づいて、トム・キットとブライアン・ヨーキーによって書かれた新曲です。ミュージカルの中に組み込まれることはありませんでしたが、ダイアナの魂を巡るゲイブとドクターの攻防が心に迫る曲です。

このイベントに先立ち、5月4日から6月7日には、1ヶ月かけてN2Nのストーリーを追体験できるTwitterパフォーマンスが行わました。
タイムラインに流れてくるN2Nの登場人物ひとりひとりの心境のつぶやきが人物像を一層際立たせて、物語を深く理解できるようになっています。ゲイブの誕生日は5月10日でした。

credit: uptownisdeadnow on SoundCloud

Something I Can’t See

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GABE: 
Have you drained all your resources, have you overshot your mark
Is the man with all the answers only grasping in the dark
You’ve taken from her memory the life that she’s survived
But you can’t see that without me
She’s really not alive

You’ve had your chance
She’s still not healed
Deep inside you still don’t see the truth she keeps concealed

Something I can’t see
Makes you think that she’ll be fine
Something I can’t see
Keeps you crossing that same line

And you doctors have your ways to try to make me disappear
But she’s lost somewhere that you can’t reach
And me, I’m still right here
So how you think that this will set her free
Is something I can’t see

DR. MADDEN 
(GABE) 
{DR. MADDEN & GABE}: 
You follow every guideline, ask the questions, check each chart
But healing mind and soul is not just science, it’s an art
With everything she’s lost, it’s hard to see the things she’s won
I’ve done the best I could but now, at best she’s come undone

She won’t be cured     (She won’t be cured)
She won’t be tamed    (She won’t be tamed)
{She won’t let go of something that she knows cannot be named}

Something I can’t see      (Something I can’t see)
It’s alive inside her mind
Something I can’t see      (Something I can’t see)
Means it’s something I can’t find

And the mind can be so certain while the soul is full of doubt
And the mind lets in the fears you hoped the brain would just shut out
Like the fear I’ll never find the final key
To something I can’t see

I see he holds her still                        (I always hold) 
A dream, a hope that kills                 (I hold her soul) 
I know there’s so much left to try     (I will until) 
I want to help but how can I?          (You let her go) 
I don’t know what I don’t know       (You don’t know) 
All I know is                                       (No) 
{I can’t let her go}

Ohhh     (Ohhh)
Ohhh     (Ohhh)
{Ohhh}

Something I can’t see                 (Something I can’t see) 
(Leaves you somehow wanting more)
(Oh something I can’t see) 
Something I can’t see                 (Something I can’t see) 
That I somehow                          (That you somehow) 
That I somehow can’t ignore     (Ohhh)

And I fear I’ve gone too far but there’s still so far to run
{And the race is far from over} 
(No, the race has just begun) 
But I will keep on fighting ‘til she’s free
Of something I can’t see     (Something I can’t see) 
Something I can’t see           (Something I can’t see) 
{Something I can’t see}

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