Lirik Lagu | Just the Way You Are - BILLY JOEL | Songs With Lyrics

Just the Way You Are merupakan salah satu lagu dari penyanyi asal Amerika Serikat, BiLLY JOEL yang terdapat dalam album The Stranger yang dirilis pada tahun 1977. Lagu ini menjadi lagu pertamanya yang masuk Top 10 di AS dan Top 20 di Inggris. Lagu ini ini mendapatkan sertifikat Gold sebagai single di AS. Pada tahun 1979 lagu ini berhasil meraih Grammy Awards untuk kategori Record of the Year dan Song of the Year.

William Martin Joel yang lahir pada tahun 1949 merupakan penyanyi, penulis lagu dan pianis asal AS. Billy Joel sukses sebagai penyanyi solo sejak tahun 70an. Dalam periode 1971 sampai 1993 ia telah membuat 12 album studio. Joel merupakan salah satu penyanyi dengan penjualan lagu terbanyak di AS dengan 160 juta copy lagu di seluruh dunia. Album kompilasinya yaitu Greatest Hits – Volume I & Volume II yang dirilis tahun 1985 menjadi album terlaris di AS.

Joel berhasil memenangkan 5 Grammy Awards termasuk Album of the Year untuk 52nd Street dan Song of the Year serta Record of the Year untuk lagu "Just the Way You Are". Tahun 1993, Joel menjadi artis kedua yang tercatat di Madison Square Garden Walk of Fame. Pada September 2004, ia juga menerima Hollywood Walk of Fame, serta Long Island Music Hall of Fame pada Oktober 2006.

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Just the Way You Are" is a song by Billy Joel from his fifth studio album The Stranger (1977), released as the album's second single in early November 1977. It became both Joel's first US Top 10 and UK Top 20 single (reaching No. 3 and No. 19 respectively), as well as Joel's first Gold single in the US. The song also topped the Billboard Easy Listening Chart for the entire month of January 1978. "Just the Way You Are" garnered two Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year in 1979.

William Martin Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Commonly nicknamed the "Piano Man" after his signature 1973 song of the same name, Joel has had a successful music career as a solo artist since the 1970s. From 1971 to 1993, he released twelve studio albums that spanned the genres of pop and rock music, and in 2001 released a one-off studio album of classical music compositions. Joel is one of the world's best-selling music artists and the fourth-best-selling solo artist in the United States, with over 160 million records sold worldwide. His 1985 compilation album, Greatest Hits – Volume I & Volume II, is one of the best-selling albums in the United States.

Joel was born in the Bronx in New York City and grew up on Long Island, where he began taking piano lessons at his mother's insistence. After dropping out of high school to pursue a music career, Joel took part in two short-lived bands, The Hassles and Attila, before signing a record deal with Family Productions and starting off a solo career in 1971 with his first release Cold Spring Harbor.

Joel has won five Grammys, including Album of the Year for 52nd Street and Song of the Year and Record of the Year for "Just the Way You Are". In 1993, Joel was the second entertainer out of thirty persons to be inducted into the Madison Square Garden Walk of Fame. On September 20, 2004, Joel received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for his work in the music industry, located at 6233 Hollywood Boulevard. He was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame on October 15, 2006.

Lyrics of the song:
Just the Way You Are

Don't go changing to try and please me
You never let me down before, mm
And 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, mm
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, mm
You always have my unspoken passion
Although I might not seem to care

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

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

I said, “I love you,” that's forever
And this, I promise from the heart, mm
I couldn't love you any better
I love you just the way you are

Alright

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