Better Than I Am Copyright 2003 Stan Lyness   4/4 show tune? folk? male + female voices	broadband listen
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                           LEAD-IN:  ( C  F ) ( (C F) G )
             F                              C                    
     Without you,      I'd prob'ly never       change the sheets,
             G                              C                    
                  floss my teeth,                drop the seat,  
           ( F             G )              Am                   
     Without you,      I'd be a lesser      man;                 
           ( D7            G )            ( C    G )             
               You make me better than I    am.

  
     Without you,      I'd soon be lettin'         myself go -
                   who can know                  just how low.
     Without you,      I'd never give a     damn.
               You make me better than I    am.                  

          F                                                      
   So I'm stayin' on the wagon,                                  
          Caug                                                   
          keepin' out of bars;                                   
          Em7                                                    
      the only dates I'm baggin'                                 
          C                                                      
      are when the dates are ours.                               
          G                              Am
     It's gettin' to the point where even I'm
          D                                G      G
        believin' I been like this all the time.


     By your side,      my hard cold heart turns soft and warm.  
                   In your arms                  I'm transformed
through some spell    I'll never       understand.               
               You make me better than I    am.                  

contRAPuntal 2nd verse:
     Without you,      I'd soon be lettin'         myself go -   
         I'd quit the gym, join the dairy, give myself to Ben & Jerry,
                   who can know                  just how low.   
         never quite could see the fun in steppin' cyclin' liftin' runnin'.
     Without you,      I'd never give a     damn.
               You make me better than I    am.
                                                                
   So I'm stayin' on the wagon,                                  
          keepin' out of bars;                                   
      the only dates I'm baggin'                                 
      are when the dates are ours.                               
     It's gettin' to the point where even I'm   
        believin' I been like this all the time.

contRAPuntal 3rd verse:
     By your side,      my hard cold heart turns soft and warm.  
               Maybe it's imaginary, but I feel less ordinary,   
                   In your arms                  I'm transformed 
          less inclined to boil over, nicer, finer, calmer, nobler.
through some spell    I'll never       understand.               
               You make me better than I    am.

     Without us,       our lives would still be  stuck in first
              - or, what's worse,                    in reverse.
           ( F             G )              Am 
     Without us,        we never could get  far;
           ( D7            G )           
               We make us  better than we
          ( F              E )
          are, we're better  together
          ( C              A )
               just to   impress each other.
          ( Dm             G )              C
               We make us  better than we   are.

While most of my song subjects are made up from thin air, this one flows from my actual life.
Band-in-a-Box makes me better than I am.