The Way It Is Chords by Donavon Frankenreiter

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_ [C#m] [D] I'm so sorry [C#m] when I [E] told you [D] those smokestacks were making clouds [A] for the sky.
But [D] if I told you the truth, [E] you'd just bring so [D] many tears, so many [C#m] tears to your eyes.
I said, if [D] that's the wedding, _ _ _ where [C#m] it's gonna be, _ _ _ if that's [Bm] the wedding, _ _ _ I'd rather [C#m] make believe. _ _ _
_ _ [D] Remember sitting on that [E] beach, watching all that [D] lightning fill up the [C#m] sky.
Well, [D] you got so scared, till [C#m] I told you it was just [D] fireworks, like the 4th [A] of July.
I said, [Bm] if that's the _ wedding, _ _ _ where it's [E] gonna be, _ _ [C#m] _
you [F#m] know if that's the wedding, _ [Bm] _ _
[C#m] I'd rather make believe. _ _ _ _
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_ [Am] _ [F#m] I know one day [E] you'll be old enough to know [D] my stories I told [A] are not true.
[D] When you have your own children [E] and they ask you _ questions, [D] you'll know, you'll know just what to [A]
do.
You'll say, [D] if that's the _ wedding, _ _ _ where it's [C#m] gonna be, _ _ _ _ you'll say, if [D] that's the wedding, _ _ _ [C#m] you'd rather make believe. _ _ _
I [D] said, if that's the wedding, _ _
_ [Bm] [C#m] where it's gonna be, _ _ _ you [D] know if that's the wedding, _ _ [C#m] I'd rather make believe. _ _ _
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If [D] that's the wedding, _ _ _ _ [C#m] where it's gonna be, _ _ _ I [D] said, if that's the wedding, _ _ I'd [C#m] rather make _ _ _ _
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[C#m] believe.
_ [A] I'd rather make believe. _ _ _
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