Being

Alive Words and Music by

Arrangement by
from Company

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Robert Fischetti Stephen Sondheim

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Some one to hold you too close

       

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         
  
Some one to hurt you too deep Some one to sit in your

  
  
               
    

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      
               
chair to ru in your sleep to make you a ware of be ing a

      
 
        
          




  
       
    
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     
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       ing       
           
                         
live Be a live


               
  


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        

 
           

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    
   
             
      
Some one to need you too much

    
  
           



  




   


    

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    
     
  
some one to know you too well some one to pull you up

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  
             
       



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2
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short to put you through hell and give you sup port is be ing a

     
  
        
 
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  
    

      
     
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live Be ing a live Be ing a

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     
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live Some one you have to let in

            
      
  
 


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          
   

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 
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      
        
    
some one whose feel ings you spare some one who like it or

   
  
         
   
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     
   


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       
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
         

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  
not will want you to share a lit tle a lot is be ing a live

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  


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 
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
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   
  
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     

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  
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Be ing a live

             

  

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

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    
3

        
  

4
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 
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
 
  
Some one to crowd you with love some one to force you to

  
    
  


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  
             
  
     
       
  

     
           

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  one who'll make you come 

 
                   
       
care some through who'll al ways be

  
         
     
  
 
   
        

 


    
           
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    
      
                
there as fright ened as you of be ing a live

              

  
                   


        
  
    

5
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     
50

    
          
3

       
3

  
Be ing a live Be ing a


            
       
          
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              
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     
   
        

     
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         

              
                  
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live Be ing a live!

        
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                   
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             
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    
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     

     
   
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     
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 
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