Maybe (Next To Normal) Chords

[Ab] _ _ _ _ [Db] _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ [Ab] Maybe [Ebm] I've lost [Db] it at [Eb] last.
_ _ _ [Ab] Maybe [Ebm] my last [Eb] lucid moment has [Cm] passed.
[Ebm] I'm dancing with death, [Eb] I suppose.
_ _ [Db] But really, who knows?
_ [Eb] _ [Ab] Could be I'm crazy [Db] to go.
_ [Eb] They [Fm] say [Eb] you should stay with [Bbm] the devil, you know.
[Ebm] _
_ _ [Bbm] _ But when [Dbm] life needs [E] a change,
[Dbm] and the one devil [Gb] won't,
_ [Ebm] you fly to the devil, you [Eb] don't.
[Db] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ [Ab]
Maybe I'm tired of the [Db] game _
[Ab] of coming up short of the [Db] rules of the [Fm] shame.
[Bbm] And maybe you feel that [Eb] way too.
_ _ I [Db] see me in you.
_ _ [Eb] [Ab] A girl full [Eb] of anger and [Db] woe.
_ [Eb] _ [Fm] A girl with a mother [Bbm] who just couldn't cope.
_ [Fm] _ _
[Bbm] _ [Dbm] A girl who felt _ [C] [Ab] caught
and [Dbm] thought no one could [B] see.
[Db] _ [B]
[Bbm] But maybe [Eb] one day [Ab] she'll be free.
[Bbm] _ [Ab]
[Db] It's so lovely that you're sharing.
[Eb] No, really, [Db] I'm all ears.
[Eb] But where has all [Db] this caring [Ab] been
for sixteen [Db] years?
[Eb] For all those [Db] years I prayed that [Eb] you'd go away [Db] for good.
Half _ [Ab] the time afraid that you really would.
When I thought you might be dying,
I [Fm] cried for all we'd never be.
[Dbm] But there'll be no [Bb] more crying.
[E] _ _ [Dbm] _
Not [Eb] for me.
[Ab] Things will get better, you'll see.
Not [Bbm] for me.
[Ab] _ [Db] You'll see.
[Ab] _ Not [Bbm] for [Ab] me.
You'll see.
Not for me.
[Eb] _ _ [Db] _ _ [Eb]
Maybe _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
we can't be [Db] okay. _ _ _
[Fm] But maybe we're tough and we'll [E] try anyway.
_ _ [Dbm] _ _ We'll [E] live with what's real.
_ [Bbm] _ _ [Db] Let go of what's past.
_ [Bbm] And maybe I'll see you [Eb] at last.
[Db] _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] We tried [Db] to give you a normal life. _
_ [Eb] _ [Fm] I realize now I have no clue what that is.
[Eb] _ I don't need [Db] a life that's normal. _
[Ab] That's way [Db] too far away.
[Ab] But something next to normal [Eb] would be okay. _
Yeah, [Ebm] something next to normal.
That's [F] the thing [Db] I'd like to [Fm] try.
_ [E] Close enough to normal.
_ _ To [Eb] get [Db] by.
_ _ _ We'll [Eb] get by.
[Db] _
_ _ _ _ We'll [Eb] get [Db] by.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _