Guitar chords Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own

Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own by U2 is a tribute from Bono to his father, Bob Hewson, who passed away in 2001. Bono described the song as the toughest conversation between a father and a son, and it expresses love and acknowledgment for the impact his father had on his life.

Key:  D
            
F#m
 -      
A
 
A
        
G
 
Tough, you think you've got the stuff
F#m
                                    
D
 
You're telling me and anyone
              
A
 
You're hard enough
        
A
 
You don't have to put up a fight
        
G
                                                        
F#m
 
You don't have to always be right
                                                
D
 
Let me take some of the punches
        
A
 
For you tonight
D
                      
A
 
Listen to me now
                                    
F#m
 
I need to let you know
                                                    
D
 
You don't have to go it alone
Refrão
                  
F#m
                                      
E
 
And it's you when I look in the mirror
                  
D
 
And it's you when I don't pick up the phone
F#m
                                
E
                            
D
 
Sometimes you can't make it on your own
      
A
                        
G
 
We fight all the time
                
F#m
                
D
 
You and I... that's alright
A
 
We're the same soul
                
A
                            
G
 
I don't need... I don't need to hear you say
                                          
D
 
That if we weren't so alike
                          
A
 
You'd like me a whole lot more
D
                      
A
 
Listen to me now
                                    
F#m
 
I need to let you know
                                                    
D
 
You don't have to go it alone
Refrão
                  
F#m
                                      
E
 
And it's you when I look in the mirror
                  
D
 
And it's you when I don't pick up the phone
F#m
                                
E
                            
D
 
Sometimes you can't make it on your own
(Just inside)
   
C
 -
Dm
 
I know that we don't talk
   
C
 -
Am
 
I'm sick of it all
   
C
 -
Dm
                                
A
 
Can, you, hear, me, when, I, sing
              
F#m
 
You're the reason I sing
D
                                
E
          
A
 
You're the reason why the opera is in me
          
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
                                      
E
 
And it's you when I look in the mirror
                  
D
 
And it's you that makes it hard to let go
F#m
                                
E
                            
D
 
Sometimes you can't make it on your own
F#m
                                
E
 
Sometimes you can't make it
                        
D
 
Best you can do is to fake it
F#m
                                
E
                            
D
 
Sometimes you can't make it on your own
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