Verse 1CAm
The star,
EmD
that gives us light
CAm
Has been gone a while
EmD
But it’s not an illusion
CAm
The ache
EmD
In my heart
CAmEmD
Is so much a part of who I am
Pre-ChorusGAm
Something in your eyes
EmD
Took a thousand years to get here
GAm
Something in your eyes
EmD
Took a thousand years, a thousand years
ChorusCAmEmD
Hold me close, hold me close and don’t let me go.
CAmEmD
Hold me close like I’m someone that you might know
CAmEmD
Hold me close the darkness just lets us see
CAm
Who we are
EmD
I’ve got your life inside of me
CAmEmD x2
Iris… Iris…
VerseCAmEmDCAm
Once we are born, we begin to forget
EmD
The very reason we came
CAm
But you
EmD
I’m sure I’ve met
CAm
Long before the night the stars went out
EmD
We’re meeting up again
ChorusCAmEmD
Hold me close, hold me close and don’t let me go.
CAmEmD
Hold me close like I’m someone that you might know
CAmEmD
Hold me close the darkness just lets us see
CAm
Who we are
EmD
I’ve got your life inside of me
CAmEmD x2
Iris… Iris…
[MIDDLE]
GAmEmD
The stars are bright but do they know
GAmEmD
The universe is beautiful but cold
Outro/ChorusC
You took me by the hand
AmEm
I thought that I was leading you
DC
But it was you made me your man
Am
Machine
Em
I dream
D
Where you are
CAm
Iris standing in the hall
EmD
She tells me I can do it all
CAm
Iris wakes to my nightmares
EmD
Don’t fear the world it isn’t there
CAm
Iris playing on the strand
EmD
She buries the boy beneath the sand,
CAmEm
Iris says that I will be the death of her
D
It was not me
CAmEmD x2
Iris… Iris…
Free yourself, to be yourself if only you could see yourself
Free yourself, to be yourself if only you could see…
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