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Hold Me Close Chords by U2

Hold Me Close chords by U2

Guitar chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Verse 1:
C    Am
The star,
        Em D
that gives us light
         C Am
Has been gone a while
         Em  D
But it’s not an illusion
   C Am
The ache
    Em D
In my heart
       C Am     Em D
Is so much a part of who I am
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Pre-Chorus:
G         Am
Something in your eyes
     Em         D
Took a thousand years to get here
G         Am
Something in your eyes
     Em         D
Took a thousand years, a thousand years

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

C Am Em D
Iris…
C Am Em D
Iris…

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

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

C Am Em D
Iris…
C Am Em D
Iris…

Middle:
G Am Em         D
    The stars are bright but do they know
G Am Em          D
    The universe is beautiful but cold

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

C Am Em D
Iris…
C Am Em D
Iris…

C Am
Free yourself, to be yourself
Em D
if only you could see yourself
C Am
Free yourself, to be yourself
Em D
if only you could see…

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