Hold Me Close chords by U2

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse 1:
C majorC    A minorAm
The star,
        E minorEm D MajorD
that gives us light
         C majorC A minorAm
Has been gone a while
         E minorEm  D MajorD
But it’s not an illusion
   C majorC A minorAm
The ache
    E minorEm D MajorD
In my heart
       C majorC A minorAm     E minorEm D MajorD
Is so much a part of who I am

Pre-Chorus:
G+G         A minorAm
Something in your eyes
     E minorEm         D MajorD
Took a thousand years to get here
G+G         A minorAm
Something in your eyes
     E minorEm         D MajorD
Took a thousand years, a thousand years

Chorus:
    C majorC A minorAm       E minorEm           D MajorD
Hold me close, hold me close and don’t let me go.
    C majorC A minorAm       E minorEm           D MajorD
Hold me close like I’m someone that you might know
    C majorC A minorAm    E minorEm         D MajorD
Hold me close the darkness just lets us see
    C majorC A minorAm
Who we are
        E minorEm     D MajorD
I’ve got your life inside of me

C majorC A minorAm E minorEm D MajorD
Iris…
C majorC A minorAm E minorEm D MajorD
Iris…

Verse:
C majorC A minorAm    E minorEm D MajorD       C majorC  A minorAm
Once we are born, we begin to forget
          E minorEm D MajorD
The very reason we came
  C majorC A minorAm
But you
       E minorEm D MajorD
I’m sure I’ve met
         C majorC          A minorAm
Long before the night the stars went out
          E minorEm D MajorD
We’re meeting up again

Chorus:
    C majorC A minorAm       E minorEm           D MajorD
Hold me close, hold me close and don’t let me go.
    C majorC A minorAm       E minorEm           D MajorD
Hold me close like I’m someone that you might know
    C majorC A minorAm    E minorEm         D MajorD
Hold me close the darkness just lets us see
    C majorC A minorAm
Who we are
        E minorEm     D MajorD
I’ve got your life inside of me

C majorC A minorAm E minorEm D MajorD
Iris…
C majorC A minorAm E minorEm D MajorD
Iris…

Middle:
G+G A minorAm E minorEm         D MajorD
    The stars are bright but do they know
G+G A minorAm E minorEm          D MajorD
    The universe is beautiful but cold

Outro/Chorus:
          C majorC
You took me by the hand
  A minorAm            E minorEm
I thought that I was leading you
      D MajorD        C majorC
But it was you made me your man
 A minorAm
Machine
  E minorEm
I dream
    D MajorD
Where you are
C majorC        A minorAm
Iris standing in the hall
   E minorEm       D MajorD
She tells me I can do it all
C majorC          A minorAm
Iris wakes to my nightmares
    E minorEm         D MajorD
Don’t fear the world it isn’t there
C majorC       A minorAm
Iris playing on the strand
   E minorEm        D MajorD
She buries the boy beneath the sand,
C majorC        A minorAm      E minorEm
Iris says that I will be the death of her
D MajorD
It was not me

C majorC A minorAm E minorEm D MajorD
Iris…
C majorC A minorAm E minorEm D MajorD
Iris…

C majorC A minorAm
Free yourself, to be yourself
E minorEm D MajorD
if only you could see yourself
C majorC A minorAm
Free yourself, to be yourself
E minorEm D MajorD
if only you could see…