If I Have To Be Alone(Chords)

	        
Intro 
F 
F/G F 

verse 1 
F/G   F 
If I have to be alone 
F/G            F 
Then I should make my mind serene 
F/G               F 
After all you're born alone, you die alone 
                         F/G               F 
You might as well spend every moment in between alone 

F/G       F 
But if I have to be alone 
F/G          F 
Then it will be on my own terms 
F/G           F 
I can never talk about it, ever show it 
                 F/G                        F 
Even though the world is watching while I squirm alone 


Pre-Chorus 1 
                   A                        G 
And your bleeding heart friends say, 'isn't it sad? ' 
                       B5 
Then they all go make love 
               G        A 
While you go insane. insane! 
              B5   B5/G 
It drives you mad! mad! 

   B5 A     G  G/F# Em  A 
My mind, I love my mind 
           G 
And if no one can feel the same 
G/A     G 
I'm a computer with a name 
G/F          F 
And I've got no one else to blame 
F/G    F 
If I have to be alone 


verse 2 
         F 
And if nobody understands 
F/G             F 
That special creature that is me 
F/G           F 
And if they fail to see the me I see 
                        F/G                   F 
Then no one else knows truly what it means to be alone 

Pre-Chorus 2 
               A                     G 
Maybe once a lifetime you lose your will 
                            B5 
Then you can let down your guard 
                   G        A 
But they cower in fear. in fear 
              B5   B5/G 
It makes you ill! Ill! 
 
    B5  A    G  G/F# Em  A 
My heart, my burning heart 
           G 
And if no one will quench the flame 
G/A       G 
I'm not obliged to do the same 
G/A               G/F 
And then they'll have to share the blame 
F/G        F 
Because I have to be alone 
F/G        F 
Because I have to be alone 
F/G          F 
But I don't want to be alone 


Outro 
F/G F 
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Written by Todd Rundgren