Billy Joel - Just The Way You Are Lyrics

Billy Joel Lyrics

"Just The Way You Are"

Don't go changing, to try and please me
You never let me down before
Don't imagine you're too familiar
And I don't see you anymore

I would not leave you in times of trouble
We never could have come this far
I took the good times, I'll take the bad times
I'll take you just the way you are

Don't go trying some new fashion
Don't change the color of your hair
You always have my unspoken passion
Although I might not seem to care

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

I need to know that you will always be
The same old someone that I knew
What will it take till you believe in me
The way that I believe in you

I said I love you and that's forever
And this I promise from the heart
I couldn't love you any better
I love you just the way you are

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

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Writer(s): Billy Joel

Billy Joel wrote the song for his first wife Elizabeth Weber. He told the Today Show in 2005, "It was written about somebody who said, 'I said I love you and that's forever.' It lasted about 10 years."

"Just The Way You Are" is the lead single from his fifth studio album. The song became Billy Joel's first "Gold" single in the USA.

Frank Sinatra covered this song in 1980. In 1987, Joel told Q about Sinatra's effort, "When we have a soundcheck we always send up my own material and we do 'Just The Way You Are' with this cheesy Las Vegas swing and make a whole joke of the thing and Sinatra did it exactly the same way. I screamed when I heard it! You sure this isn't me singing this, Frankie, or is it a joke or whaaat?"

album: "The Stranger" (1977)

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The Stranger

Just The Way You Are

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Everybody Has A Dream

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"Just The Way You Are" lyrics

Billy Joel Lyrics