Chords for You Don't Know, I Am The One ("Next to Normal" Off-Broadway)

_ [Cm] _ [A#] You have the [F] happiest septic tank on the block. _
You_
Jesus, [D#] guys!
They weren't working.
[A#] _
[D#] They weren't, [G#] really.
_ _ [E] _ _ _
_ [D#m] Get a new round.
Call Dr.
[D#] Fine.
[Fm] No!
[D#] Diana, look.
I know it's [F#] hard.
[A] You know, _ _ _ Marie_
_ [Am]
What exactly do you know?
I know you're hurting.
I am too.
You wake up in the morning
and [E] think, how to lift your head.
You need a patient there.
You said, give me a little love.
And then, it's like,
the name on a kick side.
And knowing when you'll die.
Do you know, do you know
what it's like to die?
_ [F] _ That color, [C] face, white, gray, black.
[F] _ It's a pleasure, but [E] you'll die if you [B] lose.
You don't [C] know.
_ I [Am] know you don't know.
You say [D] that you're hurting.
[G] Sure does, so you don't [Am] know.
_ You [A#] tell me, let go.
[F] And you may say so.
But I say, _ [E] don't know. _ _ _
_ _ The sensation that you're screaming.
But you never make a sound.
The feeling that you're falling.
But you never hit the ground.
Just keep some machines at you.
Day by day by day by day.
You don't know, you don't know.
What it's like to _ [F] have a gene.
A punitive [C] forever. _
[F] Even if it kills me, it will kill me.
[E] But I don't know. _
[F#m] Can you tell me,
[A] _ _ _ [D] what it is you're afraid [A] of?
_ [B] And can you tell me [E] why I'm [B] afraid?
[A] It's the evil.
[E] Can I touch [A] you?
_ _ [D] We've been fine for so long [A] now.
[B] _ How could something [E] go wrong that [B] I [A] can't see?
Cause I'm [E] holding _ on.
_ [A] And I won't [E] let go.
_ [D] I just thought you should know.
[A] I am the one who [D] knows you.
I am the one who [A] cares.
I am the one who's always [D] been there.
_ [A] I am the one who's [D] healthy.
And if you think that [B] I just don't give [E] a damn.
[Bm] Then you just [C#] don't know who [F#m] I am.
[A] _ _ [B] _ _ [D] _
[F#m] Could you leave [A] me?
And kiss [Bm] me?
[D] Could you let me [F#m] go under?
[A] Why can't you [B] see?
Can you [E] watch as I frown and wonder [C#m] why? _ _
[F#m] Are you bleeding?
Are you wishing on your own?
[Bm] _ [D] Are you through?
Are you [F#m] broken?
Would I lose [Bm] my life to [B] live?
Could I help you to [E] know?
Well, [B] so what?
[A] _ Tell me what to [E] _ do.
Look at me.
[A] Tell me who to [E] be.
Look at me.
So [D] I can see what you see.
[A] I am [C#m] the one who will open.
[D] I am the one who will stay.
[A] I am the one [C#m] who won't walk [D] away.
Yeah, yeah.
[A] I am the one who won't heal.
[D] _ Tell me that [B] I won't give [A] a damn.
[B] I know you [E] know _ [D] _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ what's who I [D] am.
_ [A] _ _ [E] _ [F#] That's who I [D] am.
_ _ [E] _ _ That's who [D] I am.
_ _ Cause I'm [E] holding on.
You say you hurt like me.
And I'm holding your cold.
You say [D] that you love me.
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [D] _ I am the one who cares.
[A] I am the one [F#] who's always been there.
Yeah, [A] yeah, yeah. _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ I [B] just don't give a [Bm] damn.
You just don't [C#] know who I [F#m] am.
You [D] don't know who I [A] am.
You don't [Bm] know who I am.
You just [A] don't know [F#m] who I _ am.
_ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
You can't use the phone.
[D] Can't drive.
A bunch of us got great pills.
_ [Dm] I mean, not that I'd go there.
That [D] shit's inorganic.
[D]
Totally ineffective, apparently.
I'm old school.
Dying grief.
All the preppies and the jocks are rigging their parents' medicine cabinets
and pumping Xanax and snorting Adderall.
But me, I'm the master of the lost art of making a pipe out of an apple. _
Yeah, you're the MacGyver of pot.
_ How come it's this little helmet?