The Way That I Need You Chords
by Passenger
The Way That I Need You by Passenger is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords C, F, G, Am and Cmaj7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Capo I
Intro
C F X3
verse 1
C F C
He's the deflated balloon wrapped around your gate
F C G
Cut priced to clear a past to ?sell by a date?
C F Am G
He'll be fool running through the church screaming out ?it's not too late?
G C
When he does, I know that you'll wait
verse 2
C F C
He's the drunk man with bad breath coming on too strong
F C G
He's the beauty queen that strings your heart along
C F Am G
And he'll answer every question in your new-age magazine wrong
G C
But I know you love him strong
F C
So I'm leaving for there's nothing to believe in
G C
I'm just grieving for a love I never knew
F
Please don't go misreading me
C
I'm not saying you?ve been misleading me
G F C
Just not needing me the way that I need you
C FX3
verse 3
C F C
He's the elephant in the room that never speaks
F C G
But you dream about him every two weeks
( =Strum Once)
C F G Am
I wouldn't know his name, but you call it in your sleep
G C
Oh I know you love him deep
Bridge
C F C
So run back to him like you should
F C G
I guess I always knew that you would
C F Am F (Hold)
For he's captured your heart in a way I never could
G C
So go on and love him good
F C
So I'm leaving for there's nothing to believe in
G C
I'm just craving for a love I never knew
F
You're the book I can't stop reading the stray cat you keep feeding
C
I'm the stray cat you've been feeding
G F C
But the tides are receding that it's true
F
So please don't go misreading me
C
I'm not saying you?ve been misleading me,
G F Am Cmaj7 G
Just not needing me the way that I need you
C F C
Just not needing me the way that I need you
OUtro
F C X3