Elah Hale

Holding You Close

Elah Hale


Tom: C

C F Dm F Am
C F Dm F Am

[Verse]
C        F                Dm        F Am
  Didn't mean to drag you into this
C          F                 Dm    F Am
  If I was older, I would've known
F            Am           Dm
  Spend some time looking back at this
          F      Am     C
Baby, but I have always known

[Chorus]
          F    Am7   Dm
I spent a long time
            F    Am7   Dm
Holding you close
             F         Am   Dm
I think it's time that I
Dm           F
Just let you go

[Verse]
C            F           Dm     F Am
  Say you'll miss me now
C                 F      Dm
  Thinking by yourself
          F            Am          Dm
If it was simple, we'd know by now
                     F       Am      C
We can't let this go on

[Chorus]
          F    Am7   Dm
I spent a long time
            F    Am7   Dm
Holding you close
             F         Am   Dm
I think it's time that I
Dm           F
Just let you go

[Bridge]
G      Am7     F
  It's my fault
                              G
That we're falling to pieces, now
    Am     F
And I'll go
                      G
Just say your looking up
           Am               F
All of the stories I didn't tell
     Dm7      Dm
That I didn't tell

[Chorus]
          F    Am7   Dm
I spent a long time
            F    Am7   Dm
Holding you close
             F         Am   Dm
I think it's time that I
Dm           F
Just let you go