Funny The Way It Is Chords by Dave Matthews Band

[Am] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ [F] _ _ [E] _
[Am] Lyin' in my park [G] on a beautiful day, sunshine in the [C] grass [F] and the children play.
[Am] Sirens _ [G] passin', fire engine red, someone's house is burnin' down.
On [F] a day like [Am] this, the evening comes.
I wait [G] _ on the front step and the car goes by with [F] the windows pulled [Am] down.
And that war song is playin', why [G] can't we be friends?
Someone is screamin' and cryin' in [F] the apartment upstairs.
[G] _ [C] Funny the way it is, [G] you think about it.
[Bm] Somebody's goin' [G] hungry and [F] someone else is eatin' [Em] out.
[C] Funny the way it is, [G] hot right off.
_ Somebody's heart is broken when [F] it becomes your favorite song.
_ _ [D] _ [Am] _ _ [G] _
[A] _ _ _ [Am] _ The way your mouth [G] feels when your lover's kissed like a pretty bird on a reef.
[F] Or water to a [G] [Am] bitch, or bone bladders.
[G] Brings the building crashin' to the floor, hear the laughter.
[Em] While [F] the children play [G] war.
[C] Funny the way it is, if [G] you think about it.
[Bm] One kid walks ten miles to school, [F] another's droppin' [E] out.
[C] Funny the way it is, [G] you think about it.
_ [Bm] On a soldier's last breath, [F] playin' baby. _ _ _ _
[C] _ [D] _ [E] _ [F] _ [G] _ [A] _ [Dm] _
[Bb] Standin' on a bridge, [C] watch [F] the water [Am] [Dm] passin' underneath.
It [Bb] must have been [C] much harder when [G] there was no bridge.
Just follow [Dm] now, the world [Bb] is [Gm] small.
Or better how [Am] it used to be [Dm] with mountains and [Bb] oceans [C] and winters and rivers [G] and stars.
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[Am] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ I [Am] look across the sky, a jet [G] plane so far out of my reach.
Is there someone up there [F] lookin' down on me?
[Am] A boy, a face, a [G] bird.
So close, but every time, they never catch her.
[F] But they can't stop _ _ tryin'.
[Em] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [G] _ [F] _ _
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ [C] Funny the way it is, [G] if you think about it.
One kid walks ten miles to [F] school, another's droppin' out.
[C] Funny the way it is, no [G] matter how hard a soldier's last breath _ [F] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ is.
[G] No matter how long somebody's broken heart, [F] become your favorite [C] song.
Funny the way it is, if you think [G] about it.
One kid walks ten miles to school, [F]
another's droppin' out.
_ _ [C] _ [D] _ [Am]
[F] Standin' [G] _ [Dm] _ _ [Bb] on a bridge, [Am]
watch the water passin' [Dm] underneath.
It [Bb] must have been much [C] harder [G] when there was no bridge.
Just follow [Dm] now, the [Gm] world is small.
Or better [C] [Am] how it used to [Dm] be with [Bb] mountains and oceans and [G] winters and rivers and stars. _ _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _