Released: September 29, 1977
Songwriter: Billy Joel
Producer: Phil Ramone
"Just the Way You Are" peaked at #1 on the U.S. Billboard Easy Listening Chart in the Winter of 1978. Winner of the 1979 Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Read more on Last.fm.
[Verse 1]
Don't go changin'
To try and please me
You never let me down before, mmm
Don't imagine
You're too familiar
And I don't see you anymore
[Chorus 1]
I would not leave you
In times of trouble
We never could have come this far, mmm
I took the good times
I'll take the bad times
I'll take you just the way you are
[Verse 2]
Don't go tryin'
Some new fashion
Don't change the color of your hair, mmm mmm
You always have my
Unspoken passion
Although I might not seem to care
[Chorus 2]
I don't want clever
Conversation
I never want to work that hard
I just want someone
That I can talk to
I want you just the way you are
[Bridge]
I need to know that you will always be
The same old someone that I knew
Ahh, what will it take 'til you believe in me
The way that I believe in you
[Chorus 3]
I said I love you
And that's forever
And this I promise from the heart, mmm mmm
I couldn't love you
Any better
I love you just the way you are
Right!
[Saxophone Solo]
3:04 - 3:29
[Chorus 2]
I don't want clever
Conversation
I never want to work that hard, mmm-mm
I just want someone
That I can talk to
I want you just the way you are, ohh
Don't go changin'
To try and please me
You never let me down before, mmm
Don't imagine
You're too familiar
And I don't see you anymore
[Chorus 1]
I would not leave you
In times of trouble
We never could have come this far, mmm
I took the good times
I'll take the bad times
I'll take you just the way you are
[Verse 2]
Don't go tryin'
Some new fashion
Don't change the color of your hair, mmm mmm
You always have my
Unspoken passion
Although I might not seem to care
[Chorus 2]
I don't want clever
Conversation
I never want to work that hard
I just want someone
That I can talk to
I want you just the way you are
[Bridge]
I need to know that you will always be
The same old someone that I knew
Ahh, what will it take 'til you believe in me
The way that I believe in you
[Chorus 3]
I said I love you
And that's forever
And this I promise from the heart, mmm mmm
I couldn't love you
Any better
I love you just the way you are
Right!
[Saxophone Solo]
3:04 - 3:29
[Chorus 2]
I don't want clever
Conversation
I never want to work that hard, mmm-mm
I just want someone
That I can talk to
I want you just the way you are, ohh
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- Emotions (1978)
- FM (The Original Movie Soundtrack) (1978)
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- Great Love Songs 2 (1989)
- The Essential Billy Joel (2001)
- Sesame Street: Songs From The Street, Vol 1. (2003)
- Piano Man: Very Best of (2004)
- She’s Always a Woman: Love Songs (2011)
- Live at Carnegie Hall 1977 (2019)
- We Didn’t Start the Fire
- Piano Man
- Vienna
- Uptown Girl
- The Longest Time
- She’s Always a Woman
- Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)
- Just the Way You Are
- Only the Good Die Young
- Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
- New York State of Mind
- Allentown
- Honesty
- The Stranger
- Goodnight Saigon
- My Life
- It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me
- Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)
- And So it Goes
- Big Shot
- Captain Jack
- An Innocent Man
- Zanzibar
- The Downeaster “Alexa”