The Way We Were chords by Carrie Hope Fletcher

Chords with lyrics (Ver. 2)

C majorC              G+G
The written word was just enough,
    C majorC          G+G            D MajorD
To keep us going when the world would get a little tough.
  C majorC              G+G
And, I held you up when winter came,
   C majorC               G+G   D MajorD
And no one said a thing when everything became so very
E minorEm        G+G      E minorEm      D MajorD
Complicated complicated complicated they said.

C majorC             G+G
The spring held nothing but surprise,
 C majorC              E minorEm      D MajorD
And all that we ignored was open to our eyes.
          C majorC         G+G
And I said, then maybe we should settle down,
 C majorC           E minorEm    D MajorD
Find a cottage or a tunnel underground

And we'll be
  E minorEm      G+G     E minorEm       D MajorD
Complicated complicated complicated they said we would be,
 E minorEm      G+G     E minorEm       D MajorD
Complicated complicated complicated they said.
   E minorEm  C majorC      G+G    D MajorD
Ohhhhhhhohhhhhh, I should've known,
   E minorEm   C majorC    G+G   D MajorD
Ohhhhhhhohhhhhh, we'll have to go,
E minorEm          CG
Back to the that we were
       G+G
Before we were us,
       D MajorD
Before I was me,
         E minorEm      C majorC
Before we were, happier than I've ever been,
    G+G            D MajorD
Than you'll ever see,
                 E minorEm C majorC
'Cause that's the way it has to be,
         G+G D MajorD
The way it has to be.
C majorC             G+G
We felt the summer on our skin,
 C majorC                G+G      D MajorD
We curled up in the warmth and let each other in.
 C majorC                  G+G
And I asked, "Have you felt this way before..."
  C majorC             G+G      D MajorD
You turned to me said "No I'll be forever yours..."

And we'll be...
 E minorEm      G+G     E minorEm       D MajorD
Complicated complicated complicated they said we would be,
 E minorEm      G+G     E minorEm       D MajorD
Complicated complicated complicated they said.
E minorEm      C majorC     G+G     D MajorD
Ohhhhhhhohhhhhh, I should've known,
        E minorEm  C majorC    G+G    D MajorD
And I said ohhhhhhhohh, we'll have to go,
E minorEm         C majorC
Back to the that we were
        G+G
Before we were us,
       D MajorD
Before I was me,
         E minorEm      C majorC
Before we were, happier than I've ever been,
G+G          D MajorD
Than you'll ever see,

'Cause that's the way it has to...

E minorEm                C majorC
I would push and you would pull away from me my heart would bleed
  E minorEm               C majorC        D MajorD
And I'd say things I didn't mean to try and get you back to me.
    E minorEm
We've bent the rules, played the games
   C majorC
And never said we felt the same.
 E minorEm
We ended things like we began.
  C majorC         D MajorD
And feared what we became...

      E minorEm          C majorC
So we'll go back, to the that we were,
        G+G
Before we were us,
       D MajorD
Before I was me,
         E minorEm     C majorC
Before we were, happier than I've ever been,
   G+G       D MajorD
Than you'll ever see,

'Cause that's the way it has to...
 E minorEm          C majorC
Back to the way that we were,
        G+G
Before we were us,
       D MajorD
Before I was me,
         E minorEm      C majorC
Before we were happier than I've ever been,
   G+G       D MajorD
Than you'll ever see,
                 E minorEm  C majorC
'Cause that's the way it has to be.
            E minorEm  D MajorD
That's the way it has to be.
         G+G
The way it has to be.

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