04 July 2025

The way I am

Words and music by Richard Homer 


4/4 93 bpm Intro CFC, CFC, CGC CFC


I’m in a place of no / logical / thought

a place of non-stop / brusque / retort

no energy, no semblance of // normality

where thinking has gone // away from me

ooh, / ooh, / that’s the way I / am 


I’m in a place of / intellectual / haze 

my mind, or what’s left of it, / in a / maze 

where evening might bring a // memory

where pleasure has gone // away from me

ooh, / ooh, / that’s the way I / am 


C high G C high 

Gone away from me, / gone away from / me 

FGC high ooh, / ooh, / ooh 

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Gone away from me, / gone away from / me 

FGC high ooh, / ooh, / ooh 

Am F 

I have watched / many things go 

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but the truth is that I no / longer know 

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what has / gone away from / me 

FG C high 

what has / gone away from / me 

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because / that’s the / way I / am 

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Am F 

On the bed, one leg / up on knee 

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I ask what do people / know about me 

Am F 

the answer, of course, is, / ‘not that much’ 

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because when people come out, I kick me / into touch 

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then / I go away from / me, 

then / I go away from / me 

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but / that’s the / way I / am 

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