Why Chords by Lionel Richie

_ _ [Am] It's been so many years.
_ There's been so many tears.
[Gm] [Am] And I still have to ask myself the question.
[Bb] _ [Gm] Why?
[Dm] Why don't [C] it feel like it felt on the first night?
[Am] It feels like we were walking through the [Dm] light.
Why don't [Am] it feel like it felt on the first [Dm] night?
I was [Gm] so hard to find to say.
Funny [Am] me, funny you don't have nothing left in common.
You wanted me to have your heart, now you [D] want it back.
[Am] What about the promise made to me that you [Dm] wouldn't trade [Bb] the key in for no damn reason?
And suddenly [Am] we're flying high, now it's Mayday, we're falling fast.
You can't feel us, I'm trying to pull up, you're my [D] key set.
[C] You said you didn't need me, [Dm] I really [Gm] didn't think that you would leave.
_ [Am] _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] Why [C] don't it feel like it felt on the first night?
[Dm] It feels like we were [Gm] walking through the light.
Why don't [Am] it feel like it felt on the first night?
It feels [C] like we were walking through the light.
[Dm] Why don't [C] it feel like it felt on the first [Dm] night?
I was [Gm] so hard to [F] find to say.
Now [Am] the kids are looking at me like I'm to blame.
No longer got the respect for me and [Dm] what I'm saying.
[Am] I know how it feels to [Dm] be ashamed.
[Gm] Cause when I was young I felt that pain.
And [Am] I can't say enough that would cause you to make a change.
That's the reason that we're going our [Gm] separate [Am] ways.
Who am I fooling?
[Dm] What am I [Bb] doing?
Thinking you love me.
[D] Why don't it feel like it felt on the first night?
It feels like we were walking through the light.
Why don't it [Am] feel like it felt on the first [Dm] night?
I was [Gm] so hard to find to [F] say.
Why don't [C] it feel like [D] it felt on the first night?
It feels like we were walking through the light.
Why don't [C] it feel like it felt on the first [Dm] night?
I was [Gm] so hard to find to say.
[A] You would think by this time I would get it right.
Know the schemes and the things that make me feel right.
But when you said you could stay no longer.
[Dm] Thought I had just [Em] a little more to be liked.
Life [A] is a journey fighting to a good night.
Know the thought I used to do to make it feel [Bb] right.
Getting [G] everything, my fortune I made.
[Dm] The freedom that the peace when the feeling was so right.
[C] _ Oh _ [Am] _ _
[Dm] yeah, [Am] _ yeah.
[Dm] _ _
Oh yeah.
Why don't [D] it feel like it felt on the first night?
Why don't it feel like it used to feel?
Why don't [C] it feel like it felt on the first [Dm] night?
Now it's so hard to find the words to say.
I was so hard [C] to find to feel like it felt on the first night.
Remember saying it all my [Gm] life.
[C] I was so hard to find to feel like it felt on the first [Dm] night.
[Gm] I was so hard to find to feel like it felt on the first night.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
[D] I was so hard to find to feel like it felt on the first night.
Why don't it [Dm] feel like [Am] it felt on the first night?
I was [Dm] so hard to find to feel like it felt [Gm] on the first night.
[D] Why don't we do it?
Why don't we do it? _ _ _
Why [Bb] don't [Am] we do it?
Why don't we _ [Dm] _ [G] do _ [D] it?
Why don't we do it?
_ [C]
Why don't we do it?
[Gm] [C] Why don't we _ [Dm] [Gm] do _
_ _ [C] it?
[D] Why don't we do it?
[Am] Why don't we do it?
I'm on my [Dm] way.
All the dreams we had we [Dm] let them [Gm] slip away.
Hey, hey, hey.
[Am] _ _ _ [Cm] I'm on my way.
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