Biography:
Singer-songwriter-pianist Taylor Giacoma is quickly becoming known on the indie music scene for a distinctive style that has been described both as folky pop and poppy folk - and is probably neither. Originally learning to sing and play piano by ear and later classically-trained, her music is both easily accessible and remarkably complex. Her lyrics are unusually intellectual and highly narrative, taking the listener on uniquely intimate and yet wonderfully universal journeys of love, loss, and perseverance.
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Hold On IV
[Intro]
N.C.
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G
G F/G C/G F/G G Fadd2/G
Fadd2 F C/F F F/C C G/C C G
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G
G F/G C/G F/G G Fadd2/G
Fadd2 F C/F F F/C C G/C C G
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G
Dm C Am G D G
Dm C Am G D7add6 G
Dm C Am G D G
Dm C Am G D7add6 G
[Verse 1]
If you’d asked me eighteen months ago
Bdim/F
I’m sure I would have married you
C/E F
And I’m not the kind of girl
G
To give her heart away
Bb Am G
But you’d had it so long anyway
If I met myself ten years ago
G/F
I’d find a way to let her know
C F G
How absolutely perfect she already was
That she shouldn’t try to change herself
G/F
Just to please somebody else
C F
That she doesn’t need to do the things
G
She thinks she does
I would tell her not to spend her life
G/F
Trying so damn hard to make things right
C
When what was wrong
F G
Was too far gone to start with
That her love for him was very real
G/F
But it’s something he would never feel
C F
That he’s not the man she’s meant
G
To share her heart with
I would do my best to tell her how
G/F
Things look so very different now
C F G
That I’ve moved on and time has gone by
That she’d see how far apart they’d grown
G/F
That she’d be all right out on her own
C F G
That one day she would find her wings and fly
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G
[Verse 2]
I know things now I didn’t then
G/A
Though I couldn’t tell you where or when
G/B
I learned to tell the difference
Dm C
Between loving you and wanting you
G/B G
And needing you
I traded who I was
G/A
For someone I thought you would love
G/B
For just a fraction of myself
Dm C
I wasn’t whole, I starved my soul
G/B G
For want of feeding you
We’re attached but not connected
G/A
And each time I’ve been rejected
G/B
I have lost a little, cried a little
Dm C G/B G
Tried a little harder to be good enough
I’ve been playing house with no one home
G/A
Living with you all alone
G/B
With nothing left to call my own
Dm C
I gave you all I had
G/B G
And it wasn’t good enough, no
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G Fadd2
[Verse 3]
Cadd6 Fadd2/D
You only want me when I’m broken
Am7 Am7/G Fadd2
You only need me when I’m weak
Cadd6 Fadd2/D
And all the words you’ve never spoken
Gadd2
Say more than I could ever speak
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G G/F#
[Chorus]
Em D/F# G D C
But, I’ll hold on to whatever I can
D Em D B/D# Em
Anything’s better than nothing, right
D/F# G D C
I’ll hold on for whatever it’s worth
D Em
For whatever I’m worth
Fadd2 F Fadd2
And that’s nothing
[Verse 4]
Cadd6 Fadd2/D
I am beside myself with grief
Am7 Am7/G Fadd2
You are beside me but not with me
Cadd6 Fadd2/D
I search my heart for some release
Gadd2
I wonder if you’ll even miss me
A/G D/G G
A/G D/G G
Gadd2/F# Gadd2/E D
[Bridge]
C G
I know I’m a complicated woman
D C A D
And I know you won’t ever understand
C
You say that you love me
G D
When I think that we both know
C A
You don’t know just who I am
A D/A G/A A D/A G/A A
D/A G/A A D/A G/A A
I look at all that’s done and said
D/A G/A A D/A G/A A D/A G/A A/G
I see the point of no return
D/G G A/G A/D G A/G
I think before I come to bed
D/G G Esus E
That I had better come to terms with it
Bm A F#m E B E
That the har-dest part of all
Bm A F#m
Is that you really do love me
Bm A F#m
In your way you love me
B
But not the way I need
E Bm A F#m E B E
And I only have my-self to blame
Bm A F#m E B E
I’ve been hol-ding on to what will never be
Bm A F#m E B E
And things will al-ways be the same
Bm A F#m
Just another variation
E D B
On an old familiar theme
[Chorus]
Em D/F# G D C D Em D B/D#
Em D/F# G D C D Em G Gsus G
[Coda]
Eb Bb F C
I held on for as long as I could
Eb Bb G
I thought anything was better than nothing
Eb Bb F C
I held on for all that I was worth
Eb Bb G
For so long I thought that I was worth nothing
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G
But I held on, I held on,
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G
I held on, I held on
Dm/G C/G G
I have to find my way
Dm/G C/G G
Tightrope jump, seasons change
Dm/G C/G G
I held on so long,
Dm/G C/G G
Why I will never know
Dm/G C/G G
I love you with all my heart
Bb Am G
But I have to let you go
[Outro]
Bb Am G Bb Am G
[Intro]
N.C.
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G
G F/G C/G F/G G Fadd2/G
Fadd2 F C/F F F/C C G/C C G
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G
G F/G C/G F/G G Fadd2/G
Fadd2 F C/F F F/C C G/C C G
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G
Dm C Am G D G
Dm C Am G D7add6 G
Dm C Am G D G
Dm C Am G D7add6 G
[Verse 1]
If you’d asked me eighteen months ago
Bdim/F
I’m sure I would have married you
C/E F
And I’m not the kind of girl
G
To give her heart away
Bb Am G
But you’d had it so long anyway
If I met myself ten years ago
G/F
I’d find a way to let her know
C F G
How absolutely perfect she already was
That she shouldn’t try to change herself
G/F
Just to please somebody else
C F
That she doesn’t need to do the things
G
She thinks she does
I would tell her not to spend her life
G/F
Trying so damn hard to make things right
C
When what was wrong
F G
Was too far gone to start with
That her love for him was very real
G/F
But it’s something he would never feel
C F
That he’s not the man she’s meant
G
To share her heart with
I would do my best to tell her how
G/F
Things look so very different now
C F G
That I’ve moved on and time has gone by
That she’d see how far apart they’d grown
G/F
That she’d be all right out on her own
C F G
That one day she would find her wings and fly
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G
[Verse 2]
I know things now I didn’t then
G/A
Though I couldn’t tell you where or when
G/B
I learned to tell the difference
Dm C
Between loving you and wanting you
G/B G
And needing you
I traded who I was
G/A
For someone I thought you would love
G/B
For just a fraction of myself
Dm C
I wasn’t whole, I starved my soul
G/B G
For want of feeding you
We’re attached but not connected
G/A
And each time I’ve been rejected
G/B
I have lost a little, cried a little
Dm C G/B G
Tried a little harder to be good enough
I’ve been playing house with no one home
G/A
Living with you all alone
G/B
With nothing left to call my own
Dm C
I gave you all I had
G/B G
And it wasn’t good enough, no
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G Fadd2
[Verse 3]
Cadd6 Fadd2/D
You only want me when I’m broken
Am7 Am7/G Fadd2
You only need me when I’m weak
Cadd6 Fadd2/D
And all the words you’ve never spoken
Gadd2
Say more than I could ever speak
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G G/F#
[Chorus]
Em D/F# G D C
But, I’ll hold on to whatever I can
D Em D B/D# Em
Anything’s better than nothing, right
D/F# G D C
I’ll hold on for whatever it’s worth
D Em
For whatever I’m worth
Fadd2 F Fadd2
And that’s nothing
[Verse 4]
Cadd6 Fadd2/D
I am beside myself with grief
Am7 Am7/G Fadd2
You are beside me but not with me
Cadd6 Fadd2/D
I search my heart for some release
Gadd2
I wonder if you’ll even miss me
A/G D/G G
A/G D/G G
Gadd2/F# Gadd2/E D
[Bridge]
C G
I know I’m a complicated woman
D C A D
And I know you won’t ever understand
C
You say that you love me
G D
When I think that we both know
C A
You don’t know just who I am
A D/A G/A A D/A G/A A
D/A G/A A D/A G/A A
I look at all that’s done and said
D/A G/A A D/A G/A A D/A G/A A/G
I see the point of no return
D/G G A/G A/D G A/G
I think before I come to bed
D/G G Esus E
That I had better come to terms with it
Bm A F#m E B E
That the har-dest part of all
Bm A F#m
Is that you really do love me
Bm A F#m
In your way you love me
B
But not the way I need
E Bm A F#m E B E
And I only have my-self to blame
Bm A F#m E B E
I’ve been hol-ding on to what will never be
Bm A F#m E B E
And things will al-ways be the same
Bm A F#m
Just another variation
E D B
On an old familiar theme
[Chorus]
Em D/F# G D C D Em D B/D#
Em D/F# G D C D Em G Gsus G
[Coda]
Eb Bb F C
I held on for as long as I could
Eb Bb G
I thought anything was better than nothing
Eb Bb F C
I held on for all that I was worth
Eb Bb G
For so long I thought that I was worth nothing
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G
But I held on, I held on,
Bb/G Am/G G Bb/G Am/G G
I held on, I held on
Dm/G C/G G
I have to find my way
Dm/G C/G G
Tightrope jump, seasons change
Dm/G C/G G
I held on so long,
Dm/G C/G G
Why I will never know
Dm/G C/G G
I love you with all my heart
Bb Am G
But I have to let you go
[Outro]
Bb Am G Bb Am G
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