The Way That You Are(Chords)

	        Intro: G 
        
It was too good to be true 
                                      C 
How could I think it would be good at all 
          G 
Still you stand tall 



You had a story to tell 
                        C 
You said it had a happy ending 
               G 
But not one for me 


    D 
You strung me along 

Said there's nobody else 



C                                         G       C 
Why would you want to be the way that you are, my darling? 
  D 
I marvel at the face 

Of this life of disgrace 
    G         Am     G 
You have been for so long 
C 
It took the tidal waves 

Of five hundred hurricanes 
   G                 C 
To help me reach the shore 
         D                                         G      C   G 
Tell me, why would you want to be the way that you are? 




The first time you took my hand 
                                     C 
And you wooed me with the language of love 
      G 
And of life 



The second time, still I believed 
                                    C 
Your kids just told me that I was no fool 
                 G 
That you were not cruel 


         D 
Then you broke my heart with ease 

Saying, 'I'm not a bad man' 



C                                         G       C 
Why would you want to be the way that you are, my darling? 
  D 
I marvel at the face 

Of this life of disgrace 
    G         Am     G 
You have been for so long 
C 
It took the tidal waves 

Of five hundred hurricanes 
   G                 C 
To help me reach the shore 
         D                                         G      C   G 
Tell me, why would you want to be the way that you are? 



Bridge:
 
         D 
When the lies and the cheating and the blaming is on 
         C                          G 
When the work day is ended and the  ?  ?  is gone 
         A                              
Will you lie in your bed and no life remains? 
       C                           D 
Do you know your deception, do you feel any pain_____? 



C                            ~   ~    ~   G       C 
Why would you want to be the way that you are, my darling? 
      D 
And I marvel at the face 

Of this life of disgrace 
    G         Am     G 
You have been for so long 
C 
It took the tidal waves 

Of five hundred hurricanes 
   G                 C 
To help me reach the shore 
         D                                         G       C  
Tell me, why would you want to be the way that you are? 
    D                                         G     C ~ ~ G 
Oh, why would you want to be the way that you are?

	        

Written by Caroline Herring