You Really Wouldn't Want Me That Way

I know I'm far from perfect,

Too set in my ways for my own good.

And there's other things about me

You think you'd like to change, If you just could.

I could let you shape me,

Mold me like a potters piece of clay.

But you really wouldn't want me that way.

It's a crazy world we live in,

And it keeps on gettin' tougher all the time.

You say you wish I wouldn't let life's troubles,

Weigh so heavy on my mind.

When things are wrong I guess that I could smile,

Pretending everything's okay.

Oh, you really wouldn't want me that way.

I'm just the man I've always been,

I don't know how to be nobody else.

And a man can only change so much,

Till he becomes a shadow of himself.

I never could be happy,

If I were just your puppet on a string, yes I could change.

But you really wouldn't want me that way.

You really wouldn't want me that way.

Now don't misunderstand me,

I want to be a man that makes you proud.

I ain't ashamed to show how much I love you,

Every way that I know how.

I can make concessions,

But don't ask me to bend until I break.

'Cause you really wouldn't want me that way.

Don't ask me tomorrow to

Become someone I wasn't yesterday.

'Cause you really wouldn't want me that way.

Ah, you really wouldn't want me... that way...