Being Alive (1970)
(wm) Stephen Sondheim. (I) Musical: Company by Dean Jones and The Company. (CR) Barbra Streisand.
Someone to hold you too close
Someone to hurt you too deep
Someone to sit in your chair and ruin your sleep
And make you aware of being alive

Someone to need you too much
Someone to know you too well
Someone to pull you up short
And put you through hell and give you support
For being alive, being 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, hold me too close
Somebody, force me to care
Somebody, make me come through
I’ll always be there as frightened as you
Of being alive, being alive, being alive!

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 of being 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 frightened as you to help us survive
Being alive, being alive, being alive, being alive!