hold on to your genre chords by
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Key: B minor•

Intro 1

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Hold on to your genre,

Verse 1

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your genre's got a hold on you.

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Hold on to your hair-do, it's it's the only thing to hold onto.

Interlude 1

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Verse 2

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Hold on to your genre,

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your genre's got a hold on you.

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Get up on the vapor, 'cause the solid's tough to

Interlude 2

hold onto.

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Verse 3

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There's a promise in the back room. See it

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written in the bathroom.

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You tell a little lie and then you

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Try to get us in your bedroom.

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You see our little lives and

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then you

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I've been checking the seams of

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your red velvet blazer.

Now I'm haunted by dreams of the

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things I've found hid there:

All the rabbits you've vanished,

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All the cards that you've killed,

All the dawns that you've banished

Interlude 3

With too many pills.

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Together

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forever,

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The pity, the pleasure,

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The privilege, the pressure,

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The arteries we sever.

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The stillness it chills us

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It's chills that we crave.

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The stillness will fill us when we fill in our

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graves.

Interlude 4

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Verse 5

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I never wanted something

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Like nothing half this much.

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I'd gladly trade my state

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For nullity and such.

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For once to stop this buzzing

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And the lights inside my head.

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Can I please have truly nothing,

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Once before I'm dead?

Interlude 5

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Verse 6

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There's a promise in the back

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room. See it written in the bathroom.

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You tell a little lie and then you

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You see our little lives and then you

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Try to drag us to your death tomb.

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I've been checking the seams

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of your red velvet blazer.

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And I'm seeing the lines of

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your will and your wish list:

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An d you wish you were nothing,

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And you wish you were cold,

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And you wish day's meant something

Verse 7

So you'd stop getting old.

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Back in the day you loved the night,

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And you would feast with

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great de light.

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A walnut coffin lined in silk,

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And the daughters blood

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was mother's milk.

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But now with fangs red as dusk,

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A wet mouth in a drid up husk,

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You try to make me one of "us."

Verse 8

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Are you sick of being pretty?

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Are you sick of being cool?

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Are you alive beneath your makeup?

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Or just an

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un-dead ghoul?

Outro 1

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Chords

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Frequently asked questions

The original key of hold on to your genre by Les Savy Fav is B minor.

The primary chords used in hold on to your genre are D, B, Bm, G, A, Em.

To play in the original key, place your capo on the 2 fret.

Yes, this version uses open chords like D, B, Bm, G, making it a great song for beginner guitarists.

The tempo of hold on to your genre is approximately 162 beats per minute.

You can easily change the key of hold on to your genre using our Transpose button located in the toolbar. This will automatically update all chord diagrams on the page to match your new key.

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