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

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Key: A minor

Verse 1
Am Am 
 
Are you frightened by the
weight you possess or
C C 
 
Is this life just weightlessness
G G 
 
And smoggy twilight in LA
D D 
 
G G 
 
I can't think of one real thing to say
Am Am 
 
And you and me are
out walking in the canyons
C C 
 
She forgets that we were friends
G G 
 
I guess it all depends on your mood
D D 
 
Why can't these meds be
G G 
 
any damn good

Verse 2
Am Am 
 
And she said
Why can't you be
C C 
 
Like my waterpik shower massager
G G 
 
D D 
 
A sweet reliable machine
Am Am 
 
And to tell the truth I don't feel less alone
C C 
 
My water massagers the purest
G G 
 
love I've ever known
Am Am 
 
C C 
 
Why can't you be
G G 
 
Like when I was 13

Verse 3
Am Am 
 
And I said,
Why can't you be
C C 
 
Like an art house foreign movie
G G 
 
Frank and sexy, red balloons and ennui
D D 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
And aloof to me, yeah
Am Am 
 
And why can't you be
C C 
 
A little more of a mystery

Verse 4
G G 
 
Why can't you be
Am Am 
 
The part of me that's missing
C C 
 
Instead of leaving me for some other
G G 
 
Say we're perfect for each other
F F 
 
And  I know we won't
Am Am 
 
G G 
 
spend our lives alone

Verse 5
Am Am 
 
And she said,
Why can't you be
C C 
 
Like an outsourced government contract
G G 
 
I'm a fat cat gettin' away
D D 
 
with anything
Kicking some secret spe
Am Am 
 
cial powers
C C 
 
Illumination rounds in showers
G G 
 
Cause your tearing your hair out
D D 
 
While we can have a bed of flowers

Verse 6
Am Am 
 
And I said,
Why can't you be
C C 
 
Like the chicks out on the road
Am Am 
 
G G 
 
Some girls are happy just to see me
Am Am 
 
'Cause you got moxie
and a broken nose
C C 
 
You take them away from
this prose
G G 
 
Sometimes a  blowjob's not enough
Am Am 
 
C C 
 
Why can't you play

Verse 7
A little less rough
G G 
 
Why can't you be
Am Am 
 
The part of me that's missing
C C 
 
Instead of leaving me for some other
G G 
 
Say we're perfect for each other
F F 
 
And  I know we won't go spend
Am Am 
 
this life alone
G G 
 
Gsus4 Gsus4 
 
G G 
 

Verse 8
F F 
 
Am Am 
 
Can we
G G 
 
just leave it be
F F 
 
We ccould live
C C 
 
our lives
G G 
 
separately
F F 
 
Could you forget
C C 
 
Am Am 
 
what happens to you
C C 
 
G G 
 
To you and me

Verse 9
F F 
 
When we're dead
Am Am 
 
and we'll be dead
G G 
 
We'll have eternity
F F 
 
And I will spend it all
Am Am 
 
missing you
G G 
 
Seeing you and me
F F 
 
Am Am 
 
F F 
 
Am Am 
 
So while I'm alive
C C 
 
G G 
 
I  will always be
F F 
 
Seeking you out
Digging you out
C C 
 
Wondering about
Am Am 
 
how it goes so far down
G G 
 
and what's wrong with you
wrong with you and me

Verse 10
Am Am 
 
And she said,
Why can't you be
C C 
 
Someone lookin' deeper into me
G G 
 
Like JD Salinger
D D 
 
Why do I challenge her
In all these surface ways
Am Am 
 
That you displease
C C 
 
Why can't you be
G G 
 
A little more at ease

Verse 11
Am Am 
 
Well,
Why can't you be
C C 
 
Like a hand rolled cigarette
I'm not joking
G G 
 
D D 
 
This masochistic self- pity of smoking
Am Am 
 
And this city ditty
C C 
 
G G 
 
I keep provoking you to leave me

Verse 12
Am Am 
 
And she said,
Why can't you be
C C 
 
Like a candle I can snuff
G G 
 
You're still a diamond
in the rough
D D 
 
And I swear to god I've had enough
Am Am 
 
C C 
 
How can I
call your bluff?

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