Misc Musicals – Next To Normal - Maybe Next To Normal (Guitar)

Ab2                    Abmaj/Db
Maybe I've lost it at last

Ab2                  Abmaj7/Db
Maybe my last lucid moment has passed

   Bbm7                       Eb7sus
I'm dancing with death, I suppose

    Db9/F              Eb9/G
But really, who knows?

Ab2                    Abmaj7/Db
Could be I'm crazy to go

     Fm7
They say you should stay

          Bbm      Ab/Bb  Ab5/Bb  Bbm
With the devil you know

          Fb6          Fb+   Fbmaj7
But when life needs a change

         Fb6       Cb2  Cbsus Cb2
And the one devil won't

    Bbm7                 Eb7sus Db2
You fly to the devil you don't

Ab         Abmaj7      Db9  Db
Maybe I'm tired of the game

   Ab          Abmaj7      Db9           Db
Of coming up short of the rules, of the shame

    Bbm7                     Eb
And maybe you feel that way too

   Db9/F         Eb9/G
I see me in you

  Ab            Eb        Db9  Eb9
A girl full of anger and hope

  Fm           Fm9   Fm      Bbm       Bbm9  Ab5/Bb  Bbm
A girl with a mother who just couldn't cope

    Bbm7/Fb     Bbm9/Fb             Bbm7/Fb      Cb9
A girl who felt caught and thought no one could see

    Bbm7      Eb7sus          Ab Bbm7 Ab/C
But maybe one day she'll be free

        Eb7                  Db9
It's so lovely that you're sharing

    Eb7              Db9
No, really, I'm all ears

    Eb7                Db9        Ab
But where has all this caring been

             Eb/G  Db9/F
For sixteen years?

    Eb7                 Db9
For all those years I'd prayed that

      Eb7         Db9/F
You'd go away for good

Absus            Ab           Ab          Ab/G
Half the time afraid that you really would

       Absus/Gb              Ab/Gb
When I thought you might be dying

            Absus/F        Fm7
I cried for all we'd never be

    Fbmaj13                   Fb6
But there'll be no more crying

        Bbm7
Not for me

Ab/C            Db9           Ab9/Eb
Things will get better you'll see

         Bbm7  Ab/C
(Not for me)

       Db9  Ab9/Eb
You'll see

         Bbm7  Ab/C
(Not for me)

       Db9
You'll see (Not for me)

       Ab9/Eb
You'll see (Not for me)

       Db9/F  Eb9/G
You'll see...

Ab       Abmaj9     Db9 Db
Maybe we can't be okay

    Fm7                          Fb     Fbmaj7  Fb6/Eb
But maybe we're tough and we'll try anyway

       Fb/Eb            Fbmaj7/Eb  Fb6/Eb
We'll live with what's real

     Db9
Let go of what's past

    Bbm7                   Eb7sus  Db9/F
And maybe I'll see you at last

        Eb7sus  Db9/F      Db9
I don't need a life that's normal

       Eb7sus  Db9/F  Db9
That's way too far a-way

    Absus              Ab          Absus/G  Ab/G
But something next to normal would be okay

      Absus/Gb           Ab/Gb
Yeah, something next to normal

           Fm7       Db/F    Fm7
That's the thing I'd like to try

Fbmaj13                       Eb7sus Db9/F
Close enough to normal to get by

          Eb7sus Db9/F
We'll get by

          Eb7sus Db9/F
We'll get by