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Artist: Next To Normal
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I Am The One
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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I Am The One
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Dan:
Can you tell me
What it is you're afraid of?
And 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 though you should know
I am the one who knows you,
I am the one who cares,
I am the ones 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.
Dan:
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 & Gabe:
And wonder why?
[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?
[Together]
Does it help you to know
That so am I?
[Dan & Gabe's Duets]
Tell me what to do Look at me.
Tell me who to be Look at me.
So I can see
What you see. And you'll see...
I am the one who'll hold you, I am...
I am the one who'll stay, I am...
I am the one
Who won't walk away. I won't walk away.
Yeah yeah yeah
I am the one who'll hear you I am...
And now you tell me that
I won't give a damn You don't give a damn.
But I know you know
Who I am. Who I am.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
That's who I am. Who I am.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
That's who I am. Who I am.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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: Dan & Gabe:
You say that you know... Yeah I thought you should know.
Oh... You don't know Oh...
I am the one who knows you,
I know you don't know. I am the one who cares,
You say that you're hurting, I am the one
I know it ain't so. Who's always been there.
You don't know. Yeah yeah yeah
I am the one who needs you,
Why don't you just go? And if you think that
'Cause it lays me low I just don't give a damn
Dan:
When you say Then you just don't know
Who I am...
You don't know... Who I am...
You don't know... Who I am...
Gabe:
You just don't know who I am.
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