Publishers: ©Universal Music Publishing Group
Popularity : 6401 users have visited this page
Recorded : 1977
Genre : Pop rock, soft rock

Length : 4:47 (album version) 3:36 (single version)
Certification : Gold (RIAA)
Label : Columbia
Producer : Phil Ramone
Format : 7"
Writer(s) : Billy Joel
Released : September 1977
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Don't go changing to try and please me
You never let me down before
Don't imagine you're too familiar
And I don't see you anymore

I would not leave you in times of trouble
We never could have come this far
I took the good times, I'll take the bad times
I take you just the way you are

Don't go trying some new fashion
Don't change the color of your hair
You always have my unspoken passion
Though I might not seem to care

I don't want clever conversation
I never want to work that hard
I just want someone that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are

I need to know that you will always be
The same old someone that I knew
Ah, what will it take till you believe in me?
The way that I believe in you?

I said I love you and that's forever
And this I promise from the heart
But I couldn't love you any better
I love you just the way you are

(Solo)
I don't want clever conversation
I never want to work that hard
I just want someone that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are

Oh... Yeah....