What I Need Lyrics

"What I Need" by Dave Barnes
From "What We Want, What We Get" (2010)
Capo: None
This song is mostly down-strumming, but feel free to mix it up.
Intro:
Verse 1:
I got a head full of dreams and time here to scheme.
This ain't good, good.
I'm thinking, you know, about what did and didn't go
Like it should, should.
All these expectations
Just mean my heart'll be breaking.
Oh, why can't I see?
Chorus:
You give me what I need,
Even on my brightest day,
Even in a hurricane.
You give me what I need,
Even when there's way too much,
Even when I'm down to dust.
Verse 2:
I've troubled with time, but its will was not mine.
There was no slowin' where it was goin'.
The wishes I willed all came back unfulfilled.
I was prayin' without patience.
All those expectations
Just meant my heart was breaking.
Oh, why can't I see?
Chorus:
You give me what I need,
Even on my brightest day,
Even in a hurricane.
You give me what I need,
Even when there's way too much,
Even when I'm down to dust.
Bridge:
I keep calm, carry on,
Like nothing ever went wrong.
That's what I'm gonna do.
(That's what I'm gonna do, oh.)
Laugh it off, move along,
Get back where I belong.
Live my life by leaning on you.
(Oh, I lean on you. I'm gonna lean on you, yeah.)
Chorus:
You give me what I need,
Even on my brightest day,
Even in a hurricane.
You give me what I need,
Even when there's way too much,
Even when I'm down to dust.
You give me what I need,
Even on my brightest day,
Even in a hurricane.
You give me what I need,
(Oh, oh, what I need.)
You give me what I need.
Give me what I need.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.