I Am The One

By Tom Kitt
On album Next to Normal (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

Next to Normal (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
[DAN]
Can you tell me
What it is you're afraid of?
Can you tell me why I'm afraid it's me?
Can I touch you?
We've been fine for so long now
How can something go wrong that I can't see?
Cause I'm holding on
And I won't let go
I just thought you should know

I am the one who knows you
I am the one who cares
I am the one who's always been there
I am the one who's helped you
And if you think that I just don't give a damn
Then you just don't know who I am

Could you leave me?

[GABE]
Hey Dad, it's me

[DAN]
Could you let me go under?

[GABE]
Why can't you see?

[DAN]
Will you watch as I drown

[DAN]
Are you bleeding?

[GABE]
Are you waiting?
Are you wishing?
Are you wanting all that she can't give?

[DAN]
Are you bruised?
Are you broken?

[GABE]
Are you hurting?
Are you healing?
Are you hoping for a life to live?

[DAN]
Does it help you to know

[DAN]
Tell me what to do

[GABE]
Look at me

[DAN]
Tell me who to be

[DAN]
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I am the one who'll hear you

[GABE]
I am

[DAN]

[DAN/GABE]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
That's who I am
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
That's who I am
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

[DAN]
That's who I am
Cause I'm holding on

[DIANA]
You say you hurt like me

[GABE]
And I won't let go

[DIANA]
You say that you know

[DAN/GABE]
Yeah, I thought you should know

[DAN]
Then you just don't know who I am

[DIANA]
You don't know

[DAN]
Who I am

[DIANA]
You don't know

[DAN]
Who I am

[GABE]
You just don't know who I am

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