Misc Musicals – Next To Normal - Why Stay - A Promise (Guitar)

   F5
So steadfast and stolid

    Eb5
And stoic and solid

    C5                  Bb5
For day after every day

Ab5 F5
Why stay?

Ab2 F2
Why stay?

    Eb5/F
Why not simply give in

F5/Eb Eb5 F5
And   get on with living?

      F5                      Bb
Cause everyone knows you tried

    Eb/Bb   Bb7  Eb/Bb Bb  Eb/Bb  Bb
But somehow some-thing  died

       C7
On the way

Ab  F5
Why stay?

Ab  F5
Why stay?

   Eb5/F F5
En-dur-  ing and coping

F5/Eb Eb5  F5
And   hurt-ing and hoping

                          Bb
For day after fucking day

Ab  F5
Why stay?

Ab  F5
Why stay?

    Eb5/F
Why not simply end it?

F5/Eb Eb5 F5
We'd  all comprehend it

                            F7  Bb
And most of the world would say

     Eb/Bb  Bb  Eb/Bb Bb  Eb/Bb Bb
He's better off that     way

      C7sus
To be free

                F5   F7sus
And maybe so is she

  F5                    F7sus
A promise a boy says forever

  F5                    Dbmaj7          Csus
A boy says whatever may come we'll come through

    F5
And who can know how

     Bb2                  Csus  C
When all I know now to be true

        Bbm7                   F5   F7sus
Is this promise that I make to you

  F5                      F7sus
A question, a boy wonders whether

    F5                     Dbmaj7       Csus
The two stay together the way that they stay

    F5
For year after year

     Bb2                        Csus  C
From love or from fear, either way

           Bbm7                  F5  Fsus
That's the promise that I made that day

F
Here's what I say

        Am                     F
To the girl who was burning so brightly

           Am                F
Like the light from Orion above

    Bb                          F2    F  F2
And still I will search for her nightly

   F   Csus            C           F7
If you see her, please send her my love

         Am                   F
And the boy was a boy for all seasons

     Am                      F
That boy is long lost to me now

         Dm                   Gsus    G
And the man has forgotten his reasons

         Bbm7                   C7sus
But the man still remembers his vow

  F5                     F7sus
A promise, a man says forever

  F5                        Dbmaj7  Csus
A man says I'll never regret or let you

    F5                 Am      F/A   Bb    Bb2
The promise I made to stay and I stayed true

Gm7                     Csus
Knowing one day we'd remember that joy

        Gm7                      A          Asus
You'd remember that girl, I'd remember that boy

  A     Dm9    Dm        Dm9/C     Dm/C          Bb
Til we do, the promise I made I'll make it brand new

    C7sus                  F5
The promise that I made to you