Being Alive Chords by Stephen Sondheim

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[Bb] _ _ _ _ [Fm] Someone to hold [Eb] you too close.
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[Eb] _ _ _ _ Someone to hurt you too deep.
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_ _ [Eb] _ Someone to sit [C] in your chair.
To ruin [Ab] your sleep.
That's true.
But [C] there's more than that.
Is that all you think there is to it?
[Bb] You've got so many reasons for not being with someone, but Robert,
you haven't got one good reason for being alone.
[Bb] Come on, you're onto something, Bobby.
_ You're onto something.
_ _ Someone to need [Eb] you too much.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ Someone to know you too well.
_ _ Someone to pull [C] you up short.
To put you [Eb] through hell.
You're not a kid [C] anymore, Robert.
I don't [Fm] think you'll ever be a kid [Bb] again, you know.
[Ab] Hey, buddy, don't be afraid of what'll be [Ab] perfect. _
The only [F] thing to be afraid of, [Ab] really, is that it won't be.
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_ _ [C] _ _ Someone you have [Eb] to let in.
_ _ Someone whose feelings you [Bb] spare.
_ _ [C] Someone who, like it [G] or not, will [Bb] want [Ab] you to share a little, [C] a lot.
And what does all that mean?
[Ab] Robert, how do you know so much about it when you've never been there?
It's [Bb] much better living it than looking [Ab] at it, Robert.
Add em [Bb] up, Bobby.
[Ab] Add em up.
_ [C] _ Someone to crowd [Ab] you with love.
_ [Eb] Someone to force you to care.
_ Someone to make [C] you come through.
Will always [Eb] be there, as [G] frightened as [Gm] you, of [F] being _ alive.
[Bb] _ _ [Ab] _ [Bb] Being _
[Ab] alive.
[Bb] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [F] Being [Ab] alive.
[Bb] _ _ [Ab] _ Being [Eb] _
alive.
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