Being Alive - Stephen Sondheim

Someone to hold you too close

Someone to hurt you too deep

Someone to sit in your chair

And ruin your sleep

Someone to need you too much

Someone to know you too well

Someone to pull you up short

To put you through hell

Someone you have to let in

Someone whose feelings you spare

Someone who, like it or not

Will want you to share

A little, a lot...

Someone to crowd you with love

Someone to force you to care

Someone to make you come through

Who'll always be there, as frightened as you

Of being alive

Being alive, being alive, being alive

Somebody hold me too close

Somebody hurt me too deep

Somebody sit in my chair

And ruin my sleep

And make me aware

Of being alive, being alive

Somebody need me too much

Somebody know me too well

Somebody pull me up short

And put me through hell

And give me support

For being alive

Make me alive, make me alive

Make me confused, mock me with praise

Let me be used, vary my days

But alone is alone, not alive!

Somebody crowd me with love

Somebody force me to care

Somebody make me come through

I'll always be there

As frightened as you

To help us survive

Being alive, being alive, being alive, being alive