The Way It Really Is
Based off tab by Téa Smith (tealou@iinet.net.au)
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Tune whole guitar down one half step (D#)
Bar chords:
Gbar 355433
G#bar 466544
A#bar 688766
Cmbar 8/10/10/888
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|-----5-----3--|-----1-----0--|-----5------3--|----1-----0-1h-0-|
|--3-----------|--------------|--3------------|-----------------|
|--------4-----|--1-----3-----|---------4-----|-1-----3---------| (3x)
(Once instrumental)
I kept talking to myself, I had to get the words out of my head
(So I did)
You barely said a thing, you kind of heard me out and then you said,
(You said)
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|-----------8--------------8-----|--------8-------8-----6-----|
|-----------8--------------8-----|--------8-------8-----7-----|
|-------8-------8------8------8--|-----8-----8----8-----0-----|
|---6----------------------------|----------------------------|
|-------------------6------------|--8-------------6-----6-----| (2x)
“You’re crazy, why do you keep doing this? Everything is fine.”
Then I think I’m crazy I do this all the time.
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|-----------8--------------8-----|--------8------------0-----|
|-----------8--------------8-----|--------8------------8-----|
|-------8-------8------8------8--|-----8-----8------9-----9--|
|---6----------------------------|---------------------------|
|-------------------6------------|--8------------7-----------|
Until I start to think that
Gbar
Nothing’s even wrong
Chorus:
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|-----5-----3--|-----1-----0--|-----5------3--|----1-----0-1h-0-|
|--3-----------|--------------|--3------------|-----------------|
|--------4-----|--1-----3-----|---------4-----|-1-----3---------| (2x)
Maybe I am hiding in my own confusion.
Maybe we’re just a picture in my head.
Maybe what if it could be the way I wish it really was.
Maybe I don’t want to see it the way it really is.
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|-----5-----3--|-----1-----0--|-----5------3--|----1-----0-1h-0-|
|--3-----------|--------------|--3------------|-----------------|
|--------4-----|--1-----3-----|---------4-----|-1-----3---------| (2x)
Sometimes your intentions are totally impossible to read.
(What does that mean?)
Sometimes even I have no idea what I need.
(I wish I did.)
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|-----------8--------------8-----|--------8-------8-----6-----|
|-----------8--------------8-----|--------8-------8-----7-----|
|-------8-------8------8------8--|-----8-----8----8-----0-----|
|---6----------------------------|----------------------------|
|-------------------6------------|--8-------------6-----6-----| (2x)
I’m crazy, why do I keep doing this? Everything is fine.
Then you think I’m crazy, I do this all the time.
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|-----------8--------------8-----|--------8------------0-----|
|-----------8--------------8-----|--------8------------8-----|
|-------8-------8------8------8--|-----8-----8------9-----9--|
|---6----------------------------|---------------------------|
|-------------------6------------|--8------------7-----------|
Until I start to think that
Gbar
Something’s really wrong.
[Chorus]
G#bar A#bar
Cmbar
Looking through my window at the big blue sky
G#bar A#bar
The lazy sun is shining, so I run outside.
Cbar
To look for you, I look for you, and then it starts to rain.
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|-----5-----3--|-----1-----0--|-----5------3--|----1-----0-1h-0-|
|--3-----------|--------------|--3------------|-----------------|
|--------4-----|--1-----3-----|---------4-----|-1-----3---------| (2x)
(Maybe I am) Is that the way it really is?
(Maybe we’re just) Maybe we’re just a picture (in my head)
Maybe what if it could be the way I wish it really was (The way it was)
Maybe I don’t want to see it the way it really is.
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|-----5-----3--|-----1-----0--|-----5-----3--|----1---0-1h-0-|
|--3-----------|--------------|--3-----------|---------------|
|--------4-----|--1-----3-----|--------4-----|-1----3--------| (repeat)
Maybe I am hiding in my own confusion.
Maybe we’re just a picture in my head.
Maybe what if it could be the way I wish it really was.
Maybe I don’t want to see it the way it really is.
Maybe I am hiding in my own confusion.
Maybe we’re just a picture in my head.
Maybe what if it could be the way I wish it really was.
Maybe I don’t want to see it,
Maybe I don’t want to see it, maybe I don’t want to see it
The way it really is, the way it really is
The way it really is, the way it really is.
*Alternate chorus power chords (for a second guitar):
|---3------4---|---1------3---|
|---4------4---|---1------3---|
|---5------5---|---1------4---|
|---5------6---|---3------5---|
|---3------6---|---3------5---|
|----------4---|---1------3---|
Cm G# Fm G
Transcribed by Jocelyn Pierpont (jociep@hotmail.com)
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