Next to Normal - I Am the One Lyrics

2009 Broadway
Next to Normal the Musical - I Am the One Lyrics

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 could 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

BOTH
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 life to live?

DAN
Does it help you to know,

BOTH
Well so am I

DAN
Tell me what to do.

GABE
Look at me.

DAN
Tell me who to be.

GABE
Look at me.

DAN
So I can see

BOTH
And you’ll see

DAN
I am the one who holds you

GABE
I am

DAN
I am the one who'll stay

GABE
I am

DAN
I am the one

DAN
Who won't walk away

GABE
I won't walk away

DAN
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I am the one who'll heal you

GABE
I am

DAN
And now you tell me that I won't give a damn

GABE
You do give a damn

DAN
But I know you know

BOTH
Who I am
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

DAN
That's who

BOTH
I am
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

DAN
That's who

BOTH
I am
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah


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

GABE
And I won't let go

BOTH
Yeah I 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
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I am the one who needs you
And if you think that I just don't give a damn,

DAN
Then you just don't know who I am

DIANA
You say you hurt like me
You say that you know
Oh, you don’t know
I know you don’t know
You say that you’re hurting
I know it ain’t so
You don’t know
Why don’t you just go?
‘Cause it lays me low
And I’m saying

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

Next to Normal the Musical Lyrics

SYNOPSIS
Prelude
Just Another Day
Everything Else
Who's Crazy/My Psychopharmacologist and I
Perfect for You
I Miss the Mountains
It's Gonna Be Good
He's Not Here
You Don't Know
I Am the One
Superboy and the Invisible Girl
I'm Alive
Catch Me I'm Falling
I Dreamed a Dance
There's a World
I've Been
Didn't I See This Movie?
A Light in the Dark
Wish I Were Here
Song of Forgetting
Hey №1
Seconds and Years
Better Than Before
Aftershocks
Hey № 2
You Don't Know (Reprise)
How Could I Ever Forget?
It's Gonna Be Good (Reprise)
Why Stay?
I'm Alive (Reprise)
The Break
Catch Me I'm Falling (Reprise)
Maybe (Next to Normal)
Hey № 3 / Perfect for You (Reprise)
So Anyway
I Am The One (Reprise)
Light