The Way That I Need You Chords

KeyC Capo1st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays508

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.

Transpose
C
Text
16
Speed
  			 
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  

    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante