The Way We Were chords by Carrie Hope Fletcher

Intro: Cadd9 G Cadd9 G D

Cadd9                       G
The written word was just enough,
Cadd9                       G               D
To keep us going when the world would get a little tough.
     Cadd9                       G
And, I held you up when winter came,
Cadd9                        G          D
And no one said a thing when everything became so very
Cadd9       G           Em7                D
Complicated complicated complicated they said.

Cadd9                       G
The spring held nothing but surprise,
Cadd9                       G            D
And all that we ignored was open to our eyes.
  Cadd9                                 G
And I said, then maybe we should settle down,
Cadd9               G           D
Find a cottage or a tunnel underground

And we'll be
Cadd9         G          Em7              D
Complicated complicated complicated they said we would be,
Cadd9         G          Em7              D
Complicated complicated complicated they said.
   Em     C           G        D
Ohhhhhhhohhhhhh, I should've known,
   Em     C            G        D
Ohhhhhhhohhhhhh, we'll have to go,
Em                  C
Back to the that we were
               G
Before we were us,
             D
Before I was me,
                 Em           C
Before we were, happier than I've ever been,
       G                  D
Than you'll ever see,
                                 Em Cadd9
'Cause that's the way it has to be,
                  G D
The way it has to be.
Cadd9                     G
We felt the summer on our skin,
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We curled up in the warmth and let each other in.
             Cadd9                   G
And I asked, "Have you felt this way before..."
Cadd9                     G          D
You turned to me said "No I'll be forever yours..."

And we'll be
Cadd9         G          Em7              D
Complicated complicated complicated they said we would be,
Cadd9         G          Em7              D
Complicated complicated complicated they said.
Em       C           G         D
Ohhhhhhhohhhhhh, I should've known,
           Em      C           G        D
And I said ohhhhhhhohh, we'll have to go,
Em                  C
Back to the that we were
               G
Before we were us,
             D
Before I was me,
                 Em           C
Before we were, happier than I've ever been,
       G              D
Than you'll ever see,

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

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

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

'Cause that's the way it has to...
  Em                    C
Back to the way that we were,
               G
Before we were us,
             D
Before I was me,
                 Em           C
Before we were happier than I've ever been,
      G              D
Than you'll ever see,
                                 Em7    Cadd9 G D
'Cause that's the way it has to be.
                        Em7  Cadd9
That's the way it has to be.
                  G   D
The way it has to be.