Just The Way You Are Lyrics
You never let me down before
Don't imagine you're too familiar
And I don't see you anymore
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 change the color of your hair
You always have my unspoken passion
Although I might not seem to care
I never want to work that hard
I just want someone that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are.
The same old someone that I knew
What will it take till you believe in me
The way that I believe in you.
And this I promise from the heart
I could not love you any better
I love you just the way you are.
I think that this is Billy's most beautiful song, and apparently so dose my girlfriend, because when I learne dto play it on the guitar, I playeed it for her and she was crying by the end of the song. What a great song.
Yeah this song was written for Billy's FIRST wife.......Didn't work out to well for them either!!
Young innocent first love, when you're just starting to figure it out. To his girlfriend he is saying "You only have to be yourself; that's enough for me. Please don't change, just believe in me and know that I love you".
This song couldn't have been done any better; I hope no one ever re-records it. At the tender age of 17 I felt in love for the first time and this song was the perfect description of everything I was feeling and wanted to say. As a sax player and part time musician, the jazzy style and soulful Alto sax solo just made it even better. But the key was Billy Joel loved the woman he wrote this for (Elizabeth). 40 years later, the initial chords on the Fender Rhodes keyboard still evoke deep emotion in me and everyone who fell in love to this song.
It's a whole list of the guy telling her "Don't" do this or that, and what he doesn't want to do. Oh, and if he doesn't seem to care, don't worry, he does love her, but he just doesn't want so say so.
Recipe for disaster. Run screaming.
this was my parents wedding song. they are divorced now....hmmm.....
it's beautiful- it simply honors the one you love- respecting their authentic self.
This song is about the ideal someone. The person you fall so deeply in love with. The person you want to stay up all night with just talking and getting to know. The person you know who may not be the prettiest or most handsome but it is their inner beauty that make them your special someone. So, you don't want them to think they need to change and in fact you don't want them to change a thing. This love will stand the test of time as you both grow old. They will still be the person you want to share your life with.
Yea and Uptown Girl was written for Christie Brinkley, swing and a miss, strike 2...... did you know that the waitress that is mentioned in Piano Man is Billy's first wife?
@eaglesfan81 Uptown girl was written for Christie Brinkley, but Just the Way You Are was written for his first wife (Elizabeth) who was also his manager. The way I heard the story (I grew up in the town next to his home town of Hicksville, NY), he formed a band upon returning to NY (Long Island) from San Francisco, just before his break through Piano Man album where the guitar players girlfriend was Elizabeth. Elizabeth talked the highly emotional Billy off the ledge several times, resulting in her break up with the guitar player and relationship with Billy -...
@eaglesfan81 Uptown girl was written for Christie Brinkley, but Just the Way You Are was written for his first wife (Elizabeth) who was also his manager. The way I heard the story (I grew up in the town next to his home town of Hicksville, NY), he formed a band upon returning to NY (Long Island) from San Francisco, just before his break through Piano Man album where the guitar players girlfriend was Elizabeth. Elizabeth talked the highly emotional Billy off the ledge several times, resulting in her break up with the guitar player and relationship with Billy - who made her his manager he thought to protect him. What's not clear to me is if she actually defrauded him or was just a bad manager. By the time Billy was 40 years old, he found his finances in shambles, and subsequently fired and divorced her. I never heard that she was the waitress in Piano Man before.
this song always reminded me of a classy wedding song. huh...guess i'll skip this one when my day comes...
chuck klosterman said it best.