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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