Why Can’t You Be chords by
Kimya Dawson
Kimya Dawson
Third Eye Blind
Third Eye Blind

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Key: A minor
Verse 1
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Are you frightened by the
weight you possess or
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C
Is this life just weightlessness
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And smoggy twilight in LA
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D
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I can't think of one real thing to say
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Am
And you and me are
out walking in the canyons
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C
She forgets that we were friends
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G
I guess it all depends on your mood
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D
Why can't these meds be
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G
any damn good
Verse 2
Am
Am
And she said
Why can't you be
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C
Like my waterpik shower massager
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G
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D
A sweet reliable machine
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Am
And to tell the truth I don't feel less alone
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C
My water massagers the purest
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G
love I've ever known
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Am
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C
Why can't you be
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G
Like when I was 13
Verse 3
Am
Am
And I said,
Why can't you be
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C
Like an art house foreign movie
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G
Frank and sexy, red balloons and ennui
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D
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G
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D
And aloof to me, yeah
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Am
And why can't you be
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C
A little more of a mystery
Verse 4
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Why can't you be
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Am
The part of me that's missing
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C
Instead of leaving me for some other
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Say we're perfect for each other
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F
And I know we won't
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Am
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G
spend our lives alone
Verse 5
Am
Am
And she said,
Why can't you be
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C
Like an outsourced government contract
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G
I'm a fat cat gettin' away
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D
with anything
Kicking some secret spe
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Am
cial powers
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C
Illumination rounds in showers
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G
Cause your tearing your hair out
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D
While we can have a bed of flowers
Verse 6
Am
Am
And I said,
Why can't you be
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C
Like the chicks out on the road
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Am
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G
Some girls are happy just to see me
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Am
'Cause you got moxie
and a broken nose
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C
You take them away from
this prose
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G
Sometimes a blowjob's not enough
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Am
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C
Why can't you play
Verse 7
A little less rough
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G
Why can't you be
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Am
The part of me that's missing
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C
Instead of leaving me for some other
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G
Say we're perfect for each other
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F
And I know we won't go spend
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Am
this life alone
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G
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Verse 8
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Am
Am
Can we
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G
just leave it be
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We ccould live
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C
our lives
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separately
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Could you forget
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C
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Am
what happens to you
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C
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To you and me
Verse 9
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When we're dead
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Am
and we'll be dead
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We'll have eternity
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And I will spend it all
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Am
missing you
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Seeing you and me
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F
Am
Am
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Am
So while I'm alive
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C
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I will always be
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Seeking you out
Digging you out
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C
Wondering about
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Am
how it goes so far down
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G
and what's wrong with you
wrong with you and me
Verse 10
Am
Am
And she said,
Why can't you be
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C
Someone lookin' deeper into me
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Like JD Salinger
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D
Why do I challenge her
In all these surface ways
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Am
That you displease
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Why can't you be
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A little more at ease
Verse 11
Am
Am
Well,
Why can't you be
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Like a hand rolled cigarette
I'm not joking
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G
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This masochistic self- pity of smoking
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Am
And this city ditty
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C
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I keep provoking you to leave me
Verse 12
Am
Am
And she said,
Why can't you be
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C
Like a candle I can snuff
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G
You're still a diamond
in the rough
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D
And I swear to god I've had enough
Am
Am
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C
How can I
call your bluff?

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