Key: C
Introduction: C#m7 Bm A C#m7
C#m7 Bm
1. You know how you say you're gonna give love.
A B A
Using the wrong one everytime. You start thinkin,no one
B C#m7 B
could ever live up, to the dream that's in your mind.
C#m7 Bm A F#
I thought that I was just unlucky, or maybe born to be blue.
C#m7 A C#m7 A
Now I know the reason, for the pain life's put put me thru.
E Bm A
I was holdin out for you.
A C#m7
I was holdin out for you.
C#m7 Bm C#m
2. Sometimes you do the right thing without knowin.
A B
Like when I looked into your eyes. Without a warning,
A B C#m7 B
this feeling started growing. All at once I realized.
C#m7 Bm A
That we were mean't to be together. I-I-I just had to
F#
pay my dues.
Chorus
B
I may not always know the answer.
A F#
But I celebrate the times I do-oo....
Chorus--Yea Ah!
C#m7 A C#m7 A
Now I know the reason. Now I know the reason.
G
Now I know----A-C#m7
Bm A
I was holdin out for you-oo.
A C#m7
I was a holdin out, holdin out for you.
Bm A
All my days, I've been holdin' out,
C#m7 BmA C#m7
Oh I've----been holdin out for you.