AN: I still don't own Next to Normal

I woke up in the morning

And needed help to get out of bed.

I read some of the cases

And felt like sleeping like the dead.

The seminar was like living on a cliffside

Not knowing when you'll dive...

Do you know,

Do you know

What it's like to die alive?

When a world that once had colour

Fades to white and grey and black...

When the rest of the day bores me

But I won't pass if I slack.

You don't know,

I know you don't know.

I say that I am learning

It sure doesn't show.

You don't know...

It should lay me so low

When you say just learn

And I say

You don't know...

The sensation that I still want to be gaming

But now I can't make a sound,

Or the feeling that I should be listening

But I never hit the ground

It just keeps on rushing at me

minute by minute

I do know

I do know

What it's like to live that way.

Like I am lazy and unemployed

Forever on my couch

If it gets me, College will fail me

I know what I enjoyed

It's been three months since the deadline

And my mind is still a mess

And what I remember

Well, it's anybody's guess.

Cause my essay is like the weather

It will come and it will go

I don't know, even know

How this grade's going to turn out.

I'm some Christopher Columbus

Sailing out into the hall

With a map to the secretary

To pick up my grade.

I do know, but what I don't know.

I'm sure there was a lot missing, but I still passed somehow

I do so know, now I can take it slow,

And I do, although I always do, I do know!

I do know, I do know where some of the f**king pieces had to go!

Cause somehow, I got my best grade yet, and for a year I am done.

Apparently, I do know!

AN: I swore myself if I passed that essay I would write a "sequel". And because of some miracle I actually passed, so here it is for the ten people who read it and the one guy who favourited (It always makes my day if someone favours my work). To my friend: I passed! With my best grade! Thanks to all the musicals I listened to during those 4 days! Thanks for introducing me to Next to Normal.

And I thank anyone who read this or the first chapter.