The Way That You Are Chords
The Way That You Are by Caroline Herring is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, D, Am and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the 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?