Hold On IV
[Intro]
N.C.
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G
G F/G C/G F/G G Fadd2/G
Fadd2 F C/F F F/C C G/C C G
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G
G F/G C/G F/G G Fadd2/G
Fadd2 F C/F F F/C C G/C C G
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G
Dm C Am G D G
Dm C Am G D7add6 G
Dm C Am G D G
Dm C Am G D7add6 G
[Verse 1]
If you’d asked me eighteen months ago
Bdim/F
I’m sure I would have married you
C/E F
And I’m not the kind of girl
G
To give her heart away
Bb Am G
But you’d had it so long anyway
If I met myself ten years ago
G/F
I’d find a way to let her know
C F G
How absolutely perfect she already was
That she shouldn’t try to change herself
G/F
Just to please somebody else
C F
That she doesn’t need to do the things
G
She thinks she does
I would tell her not to spend her life
G/F
Trying so damn hard to make things right
C
When what was wrong
F G
Was too far gone to start with
That her love for him was very real
G/F
But it’s something he would never feel
C F
That he’s not the man she’s meant
G
To share her heart with
I would do my best to tell her how
G/F
Things look so very different now
C F G
That I’ve moved on and time has gone by
That she’d see how far apart they’d grown
G/F
That she’d be all right out on her own
C F G
That one day she would find her wings and fly
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G
[Verse 2]
I know things now I didn’t then
G/A
Though I couldn’t tell you where or when
G/B
I learned to tell the difference
Dm C
Between loving you and wanting you
G/B G
And needing you
I traded who I was
G/A
For someone I thought you would love
G/B
For just a fraction of myself
Dm C
I wasn’t whole, I starved my soul
G/B G
For want of feeding you
We’re attached but not connected
G/A
And each time I’ve been rejected
G/B
I have lost a little, cried a little
Dm C G/B G
Tried a little harder to be good enough
I’ve been playing house with no one home
G/A
Living with you all alone
G/B
With nothing left to call my own
Dm C
I gave you all I had
G/B G
And it wasn’t good enough, no
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G Fadd2
[Verse 3]
Cadd6 Fadd2/D
You only want me when I’m broken
Am7 Am7/G Fadd2
You only need me when I’m weak
Cadd6 Fadd2/D
And all the words you’ve never spoken
Gadd2
Say more than I could ever speak
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G G/F#
[Chorus]
Em D/F# G D C
But, I’ll hold on to whatever I can
D Em D B/D# Em
Anything’s better than nothing, right
D/F# G D C
I’ll hold on for whatever it’s worth
D Em
For whatever I’m worth
Fadd2 F Fadd2
And that’s nothing
[Verse 4]
Cadd6 Fadd2/D
I am beside myself with grief
Am7 Am7/G Fadd2
You are beside me but not with me
Cadd6 Fadd2/D
I search my heart for some release
Gadd2
I wonder if you’ll even miss me
A/G D/G G
A/G D/G G
Gadd2/F# Gadd2/E D
[Bridge]
C G
I know I’m a complicated woman
D C A D
And I know you won’t ever understand
C
You say that you love me
G D
When I think that we both know
C A
You don’t know just who I am
A D/A G/A A D/A G/A A
D/A G/A A D/A G/A A
I look at all that’s done and said
D/A G/A A D/A G/A A D/A G/A A/G
I see the point of no return
D/G G A/G A/D G A/G
I think before I come to bed
D/G G Esus E
That I had better come to terms with it
Bm A F#m E B E
That the har-dest part of all
Bm A F#m
Is that you really do love me
Bm A F#m
In your way you love me
B
But not the way I need
E Bm A F#m E B E
And I only have my-self to blame
Bm A F#m E B E
I’ve been hol-ding on to what will never be
Bm A F#m E B E
And things will al-ways be the same
Bm A F#m
Just another variation
E D B
On an old familiar theme
[Chorus]
Em D/F# G D C D Em D B/D#
Em D/F# G D C D Em G Gsus G
[Coda]
Eb Bb F C
I held on for as long as I could
Eb Bb G
I thought anything was better than nothing
Eb Bb F C
I held on for all that I was worth
Eb Bb G
For so long I thought that I was worth nothing
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G
But I held on, I held on,
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G
I held on, I held on
Dm/G C/G G
I have to find my way
Dm/G C/G G
Tightrope jump, seasons change
Dm/G C/G G
I held on so long,
Dm/G C/G G
Why I will never know
Dm/G C/G G
I love you with all my heart
Bb Am G
But I have to let you go
[Outro]
Bb Am G Bb Am G