Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own

U2

  • A
  • Am
  • C
  • D
  • D2
  • Dm
  • E
  • F
  • F#/A
  • F#m
  • G
  • G/A
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Key:
[Intro] A G F#m D A
A G/A F#/A D2
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A F#m Tough, you think you've got the stuff
D E You're telling me and anyone
A You're hard enough
A You don't have to put up a fight
F#m D You don't have to always be right
E Let me take some of the punches
A For you tonight
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D A Listen to me now
F#m I need to let you know
D You don't have to go it alone [Chorus]
B|--12h14-12h14-12h14-12h14-12h14- B|-| |
F#m And it's you when I look in the
E mirror
D And it's you when I don't pick up the phone
F#m E Sometimes you can't make it on
D your own
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A F#m We fight all the time
D E You and I... that's alright
A We're the same soul
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A F#m I don't need... I don't need to hear you say
]D E That if we weren't so alike
A You'd like me a whole lot more
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D A Listen to me now
F#m I need to let you know
D You don't have to go it alone [Chorus]
B|--12h14-12h14-12h14-12h14-12h14- B|-| |
F#m And it's you when I look in the
E mirror
D And it's you when I don't pick up the phone
F#m E Sometimes you can't make it on
D your own [Solo]
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(Just inside)
(F - C - Dm) I know that we don't talk
(F - C - Am) I'm sick of it all
(F - C - Dm) A Can, you, hear, me, when, I, sing
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F#m You're the reason I sing
D E A You're the reason why the opera is in me
E|--17-16---14---16-17------14---- B|---------------------17------17- G|-------------------------------- E|-14-----| B|----17--| G|--------|
D Well hey now
A Still got to let you know
F#m A house still doesn't make a home
D Don't leave me here alone
F#m And it's you when I look in the
E mirror
D And it's you that makes it hard to let go
F#m E Sometimes you can't make it on
D your own
F#m E Sometimes you can't make it
D Best you can do is to fake it
F#m E Sometimes you can't make it on
D A your own
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Song details

Composition: Adam Clayton, Bono, Larry Mullen, Jr., and The Edge

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