How I Am — Beginner Piano Tutorial

She (D)asks how I am. read And (Em7sus4)so how am I? My (F#m7)days are the u su al (Bm7)days: I wake (C)up; I go out. What more Time goes (A7sus4)by. My (G)days are ex act ly the (F#m7)days I have lived since ar (Bm7)riv ing here. In (G)fact, how I am is a (F#m7)mazed how this com forts me (Bm)year by year. I (C)work and I eat. Life is muf fins and (A7sus4)jam. The (Em7)house is nice and (F#m7)qui et now. That is how I (D)am. Five (D)years in these rooms read ing (Em7sus4)He gel and Kant. My (F#m7)mind is de vot ed to (Bm7)thoughts of the (C)mean ing of life. What more could I (A7sus4)want? So (G)why is it late ly I (F#m7)find I’m un eas y all (Bm7)through the night? And (G)why e ven now does my (F#m7)skin feel ex plo sive as (Bm)dy na mite? Why (C)does my heart pound like a bat ter ing (A7sus4)ram? How (Em7)can she ask me (F#m7)how I am? That is how I (D)am. Five How I am is (B)fine! (B)Dear Miss March, there is (E)noth ing dra (B)mat ic or (F#)new to re (B)port. (F#)This will be (B)short. (B)Morn ing and eve ning I (E)live in my (B)u su al way. On the (E)day you re (B)turn you will (F#)see for your (B)self! (C)Tell me, Miss (C)March, are you (F)hap py so (C)far from the (Dm)clang and the (C)beat of our (F)tur bu lent (C)street? Quite (F)of ten I (C)think of our (G5)days in New (C)York. Though, of (Fmaj7)course, since you (C)went I have (G7sus4)been quite con (Ab)tent. (Ab)Ach! I wake in the morn ing and all that I hear is the (Ab)ab sence of (Gb)sound. (Ab)Yes! My peace is dis turbed, but the ruck us is me as my (Ab)thoughts run a (Gb)ground. (Gb)I (B)want ed a life by my self in these rooms, but (A)now all a round me, an oth er life looms. Who (G#m)asked her to come and to (F#)go and to leave me like (E)that? And (C#m7)now she ex pects me to (D#m7)send her a note? With (C#m7)words, if I spoke, that would (D#m7)stick in my throat! Who (G)asked her to change how I live, how I (Em7)think, how I (Gm6)am? She That is how I (D)am.