You Take Me As I Am Chords & Lyrics - Stornoway

[Chords]
A (X-0-2-2-2-0)
D (X-X-0-2-3-2)
F#m (2-4-4-2-2-2)
Bm (X-2-4-4-3-2)
G (3-2-0-0-0-3)
Em (0-2-2-0-0-0)
F# (2-4-4-3-2-2)
C#m (X-4-6-6-5-4)
E (0-2-2-1-0-0)
Gm (3-5-5-3-3-3)

[INTRO]
[A] [D]
[F#m] [Bm] [D] [Bm]
[F#m] [A] [D] [Bm]
[F#m] [G]
[A]

[VERSE]
[D]I was nervous in the morning
In a car of [Bm]backseat drivers
[F#m]With a handful of the stories
From the chapters we were start-[A]ing
[D]Every time I crossed the border
[Bm]Where the water flows in cascades

[F#m]

[D]You were coming with your sister
From your mother's in the [Bm]valley
[F#m]Where the caws of rooks and ravens
[F#m]Are the only thing you hear
[G]As you imagine yourself living with no
Phone or electrici-
[D] -ty

We were [F#m]headed to the outpost
[F#m]Where our friends had all assembled
[G]To receive us in our glory
Where the trees lean for their [Em]safety
From [D]the edge of the world
[D]And the birds revolved around us
[F#m]As the sea swallowed our
[C#m]vows[F#] [E]

[PRE-CHORUS]
[G]And after we were married we went to our
[Em]White stone cottage and you
[A]Took your simple dress off and
Your tears fell in my eyes as we were [G]over
-come with
Wonder and with [A]love
Aaaa-round us

[CHORUS]
[D]You take me as I am
And you turn me into [Bm]someone who could
[F#m]Step right off this rock
And fly out across the [G]ocean 'cause if
[D]I were to die today
[Bm]Well then it wasn't all a waste

[F#m] [A]

[D]You take me as I am
For all my faults and [Bm]problems
[F#m]And you build me to withstand
Every gust and every [A]gale, and if I
[Em]Knew I was going to
Die, well I'd be satis-
[A] -fied
'Cause we've shared this moment

[VERSE]
[D]On the first night of our future
We left the house in convoys
[F#m]Aurora in the corner
Started sweeping up the [A]stars, and we
[D]Were talking all in whispers
[Bm]For no reason we could think of
[F#m]at all

[F#m]

[D]As we clambered through the bracken
On our way up to the [Bm]outcrop where
[F#m]the wind shakes the gorse and the
Coast looks like a jigsaw piece
[G]As the sun rose up around us
All neon pink and [Em]purple [E]and
[F#]Gold

[G] [A] [G] [F#]

[PRE-CHORUS]
[G]And way down below the clifftops
The sea broke on the [Em]shoreline
[A]Without hearing itself roar
Without knowing we were here 'cause it was
[G]only [Bm]doing
[Em]What it was sup-
[Gm] -posed to
As [Em]you

[CHORUS]
[D]You take me as I am
And you turn me into [Bm]someone who could
[F#m]Step right off this rock
And fly out across the ocean [D]'cause
If I were to die
[Bm]Today well then it wasn't all a [F#m]waste

[F#m] [A]

[D]You take me as I am
For all my faults and [Bm]problems and you
[F#m]Build me to withstand
Every gust and every gale, and if I
[Em]Knew I was going to
Die, well I'd be satis-
[A] -fied
'Cause we've shared this moment

[D] [F#m] [G] [Gm] [D] [Bm] [F#m]

[A]OoooOOoohh
[D]You take me as I am
For all my faults and [Bm]problems and you
[F#m]Build me to withstand
[F#]Every gust and every gale, and if I
[Em]Knew I was going [A]to
[F#m]Die
[A]OOoooohh well I'd be satis-
[G] -fied
Oooohh because we've
[Gm]Shared this
mo-ment

[OUTRO]
[D]Once you were a stranger but I
Struggle to remember now I
[F#m]Picture us as children and the years
Before I met [G]you on the first
[D]Day of my life when the day
[G]Broke like an antique
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