Intro:
E – D (3x) E – D – E – D ]
ED
After all these years tryin’ to set it free
ED
The pain seems to fade but it never leaves
EDED
The memories haunt me and I wish they’d let me be. Yeah!
C#mBA
I gambled on love
C#mBA
and it tore me apart
C#mBA
Be still, be still, be still,
ED
My broken heart
ED
Be still my heart!
ED
I wasn’t born wise but I learned this much
ED
Though you took all I gave it was never enough
EDED
There was a time I’d have died for your soul, your strength, your touch
C#mBA
But I’ll leave it behind,
C#mBA
try to make a new start
C#mBA
Be still, be still, be still,
ED
My broken heart
E
Let the pain fade away!
AB
It was the heat of the moment in the heart of a dream
C#mA
You lit fire to my soul and you said you’d never leave
AB
It’s tearin’ me up, baby, where have you been?
C#mBA
Oh, please, oh please, oh please!
C#mBA
please just understand me
C#mBA
And what this nonsense means. oh, yeah!
[SOLO:
E – D (4X)]
EDE
Let the pain fade away!
D – C – A – B ……
ED
I gave up my dreams to let you inside
ED
Boy, you sure took my momma;s little boy for a ride
EDED
I’ll never know how I coulda ben so blind
C#mBA
I gambled on love
C#mBA
and it tore me apart
C#mBA
Be still, be still, be still,
E
My broken heart
C#mBA
Be still, be still, be still,
ED
My broken heart
ED
Be still my heart!
ED
My broken heart
ED
Let the pain fade away!
ED
Just a small town floozy a ’name’ a backwater lucy,
EDE
Drivin’ me down and down and down and down
DED
(be still my heart) oh yeah!!
ED
That’s what I get for bein’ lazy, woman’s drivin’ me crazy
EDE
Drivin’ me down and down and down and down
DED
(be still my heart) oh yeah!!
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.