Intro: C Am Em D
C Am Em D
The star that gives us light
C Am
Has been gone a while
Em D
But it’s not an illusion
C Am Em D
The ache in my heart
C Am Em D
Is so much a part of who I am
G C
Something in your eyes
Em D
Took a thousand years to get here
G C
Something in your eyes
Em D
Took a thousand years, a thousand years
C Am
Hold me close
Em D
Hold me close and don’t let me go
C Am
Hold me close
Em D
Like I’m someone that you might know
C Am
Hold me close
Em D
The darkness just lets us see
C Am
Who we are
Em D
I’ve got your life inside of me
(C Am Em D)
Iris, Iris
C Am Em D C
Once we are born We begin to forget
Am Em D
The very reason we came
C Am Em D
But you I’m sure I’ve met
C
Long before the night
Am Em D
The start went out We’re meeting up again
C Am
Hold me close
Em D
Hold me close and don’t let me go
C Am
Hold me close
Em D
Like I’m someone that you might know
C Am
Hold me close
Em D
The darkness just lets us see
C Am
Who we are
Em D
I’ve got your life inside of me
(C Am Em D)
Iris, Iris
The start are bright
But do they know
The universe is beautiful but cold
C
You took me by the hand
Am Em
I thought that I was leading you
D C
But it was you made me your man
Am Em D
Machine, I dream where you are
C Am
Iris standing in the hall
Em D
She tells me I can do it all
C Am
Iris wakes to my nightmare
Em
Don’t fear the world
D
It isn’t there
C Am
Iris playing on the strand
Em D
She buries the boy beneath the sand
C Am
Iris says that I will be the death of her
Em D
It was not me
(C Am Em D)
Iris, Iris
C Am
She said free yourself to be yourself
Em D
If only you could see yourself
C Am
Free yourself to be yourself
Em D
If only you could see
