Why Cant You Be Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Am C G F D/F♯ C/G Cadd9

 AAmre you frightened by the weight you possess oh

 ICs this life just weightlessness

 The smoggGy twilight in LA

 IG can't thinD/F♯k of one real thing to say

 AAmnd Robbie Williams is walking in the canyons

 FCorgets that we were friends

 I guess it Gall depends on your mood G D/F♯

 Why can't these meds be aD/F♯ny damGn good

And she said

 WAmhy can't you be

 LCike my waterpik shower massager

 AG sweet reliable macD/F♯hine

 And to tell the truth AmI don't feel less alone

 AC water massagers is the purest love I've ever known G

  Am Am C/G Cadd9 (play the Am and C/G once)

Why can't you be

 LCike when I was G13

 WAmhy can't you be Am

 LCike an art house foreign movie

 Frank and seGxy, red balloons and ennuD/F♯i

And allude to me

  Am Am C/G C (play the Am and C/G once and quickly)

And why can't you be

 AC little more of a mystery G

 WhGy can't you be

 TAmhe part of me that's missing

 ThCan leaving me for some other

 SaGid we're perfect for each other

 AndF I know we wont go spend our Amlives alone. Cadd9 G

 WAmhy can't you be

AmLikCe an outsourced government contract

 I'm aG fat cat gettin' away with anytD/F♯hing

 Kicking some secret Amspecial powers

 Illumination Crounds in showers

GCause your tearing your hair out

 WD/F♯hile we can have a bed of flowers

And I said

AmWhy can't you be

 Like the Cchicks out of the road

 Some girls are Ghappy just to see me

 Because you gotAm moxie and a broken nose

 Take him Caway from this close

 Sometimes a Gblowjobs not enough

Am Am C/G C (play the Am and C/G once quickly)

Why can’t you play

(stop playin for a sec)

A little less rough

GWhy can't you be

 TAmhe part of me that's missing

 Instead of lCeaving me for some other

 Say we're pGerfect for each other

 And I Fknow we wont go spend our livesAm alone C G

( THE NEXT PART DONT STRUM SO MUCH AND DO A LIL MORE PICKIN)

 CFan we.Am..

 jGust leave it be

 And we canF live... Amour lives... Gseparately

 Could you Fforget...Am what happens to you

 YGou and me

 WFhen we're dead... anAmd you'll be dead

 We'll have eGternity

 And I will spend it aFll... Ammissing you

 SGeeing you with me

 So while I'm alivFe...Am

GI will always be

(BACK TO STRUMMIN)

 WAmhy can't you be

 LCookin' a little deeper into me

 Like GJD Salinger

 Why do I D/F♯challenge her

 In all these surfaceAm ways

That you displease

 Why cCan't you be

 A little Gmore at ease

 WAmhy can't you be

 Like a Chand rolled cigarette

I’m not joking

GThis masochistic seD/F♯lf-pity of smoking

 AAmnd this city ditty

 I kCeep provoking you to Gleave me

She said

AmWhy can't you be

CLike a candle I can snuff

 You’re still a Gdiamond in the rough

 And ID/F♯ swear to god I've had enough

 HAmow can I C

 call your bluff? G

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