Holding On To You (Live) - Sananda Maitreya & The Sugar Plum Pharaohs Chords

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[E] [C#m] I left the [A] East Side [C#] for a West [D#m] Coast beauty, a girl who burned my thoughts like kisses.
She was down by street decree.
She swore [C#] she'd pull my [F#] best years out of me.
[C#] Foul painted lips on a lava beauty, [D#m] a tangerine girl with tambourine eyes.
Her face was my favorite magazine.
[C#] Her body was [F#] my favorite book to read.
They say that all poets must have [D#m] an unrequited [C#] _ love.
_ [F#] All lovers must have [D#m] thought-provoking [F#] fear.
But holding on [C#] to you and letting go [F#] of pain and letting go [C#] of tears and letting go [F#] of
pain and letting go [D#m] of [Fm] what's [C#] not [F#] real, holding [C#] on to you.
[G#m] _ [E] _ [C#] I'm up in Rossa for a seaside baby, [D#m] a chamomile smile that pouts on cue.
But every moment I breathe a sigh, her bosom [F#] could chase my sweet alibi.
[C#] An emotional mist, she breathes in fog [D#m] and breathes it out as garden flowers.
Why me of all the tough-talking boys?
I don't know.
I guess you [C#] heard my heart beat [F#] through the noise.
They say that all poets [C#] must [D#m] have an unrequited [C#] love.
_ [D#m] As all lovers [F#] must [D#m] have thought-provoking [F#] dreams.
But holding [C#] on to you and letting [F#] go of pain and letting [C#] go of tears and letting [F#] go of pain
Holding [C#] on to you means letting [F#] some feel.
And letting go [D#m] of [C#] what's not [F#] _ real.
Holding on to [D#m] you.
And letting go of [G#m] what's not real.
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_ _ [C#m] _ _ _ They [D#m] _
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[C#] _ [F#] _ that all poets [C#] must [D#m] have an [C#] unrequited love.
As all lovers must have [D#] thought-provoking [F#] dreams.
_ Holding on to [C#] you.
Letting go [F#] of pain.
_ Letting go of [D#m] _ [C#] what's not [F#]
real.
[F] [C#] Holding on to you.
I left these coasts for West Coast [D#m] beauty.
I wouldn't go burn my thoughts like she was down by Sweet Decree.
[C#] So she put [F#] my best years out of me.
[C#] Fired with lips on a see-saw canvas.
[D#m]
Goodbye Picasso.
Hello Dolly.
Soil is fertile where her footsteps try.
She's [C#] my new religion.
[F#] She's all I've got.
They say that all [C#] poets must [D#m] have an unrequited [C#] love.
As [D#m] all [C#] lovers must [D#m] have thought-provoking [F#]
dreams.
Holding [C#] on to you.
_ [F#] Letting go of pain.
[C#] Means letting go of tears.
Means [F#] letting go of rain.
_ [C#] Holding on to you.
[F#] Means letting some feel.
Means [C#] letting some feel.
Means letting go of [F#] what's not real.
Holding [C#] on to you.
_ [F#] Means letting go of pain.
Means [C#] letting go of tears.
Means letting [F#] go of rain.
Holding [C#] on to you.
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_ _ _ Hold on to _
_ [C#] _ _ _ you. _ _
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