just the way you are - billy joel billy joel just the way you are 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'll take you just the way you are 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 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 i couldn't love you any better i love you just the way you are.