Just the Way You Are

Billy Joel


[Intro]
                    


[Verse]
           
Don’t go chang

          
ing           

             
          to t

            
ry to please m

            
e
            
You never let 

          
me down before

              
          --  

         
mmm           

           
   hmmm
           
Don’t imagine 

          
              

              
     you’re to

                
o familiar
             
And I don’t se

      
e you anymore


[Chorus]
            
I would not le

       
ave you       

              
     in times 

                   
of trouble
            
We never could

              
 have come thi

          
s far  -- mmmm

           
   hmmm
           
I took the goo

          
d times,      

              
  I’ll take th

                 
e bad times
              
I’ll take you 

           
just the way y

                 
ou are


[Bridge]
         
      I need y

             
ou to know tha

              
t you will alw

       
ays be 
              
The same old s

             
omeone that I 

   
knew
        
Oh        what

             
 will it take 

              
for you to bel

                     
ieve in me
             
The way that I

              
 believe in yo

            
u


[Chorus]
           
I said I love 

        
you           

              
and that’s for

                  
ever
             
And this I pro

             
mise from the 

          
heart         

         
   -- mm   mmm

 
m
            
I could not lo

         
ve you        

             
       any bet

         
ter
              
I love you jus

           
t the way you 

                          
are


[Instrumental]


[Chorus]
             
I don’t want c

         
lever    conve

                
rsation
            
I never want t

              
o work that ha

       
rd --     mm h

          
mmm
            
I just want so

         
meone         

              
      that I c

                   
an talk to
           
I want you jus

              
t the way you 

                     
are 


[Instrumental]