Here is my poem “You Held Me” adapted into a song version with guitar chords—retaining your original emotion and meaning while shaping it into a gentle, haunting acoustic ballad. It’s written for fingerstyle or soft strumming, perfect for an intimate performance or recording.


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🎸 “You Held Me” – Guitar Song Version

Key: Em (E minor – haunting, vulnerable tone)
Capo: Optional on 2nd fret (to lift the emotion slightly to F#m)
Strumming (slow): Down – down-up – pause – down-up (or light fingerpicking)
Tempo: Slow (around 60–70 bpm)


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🎵 Intro
Em   C   G   D
Em   C   G   D


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🎵 Verse 1
Em             C
You held me—held me safe
G                  D
As I cried forbidden pain
Em                C
My body closed, my heart laid bare
G               D
Like a child lost in the rain

Em              C
You held me—though I shook
G                D
Too scared to even breathe
Em             C
And still you stayed, you didn’t look
G                     D
Away from all beneath


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🎵 Pre-Chorus
Am                   Em
Now you see me, raw and whole
C                   G
Looking through my silent soul
Am                Em
You hold me, still not gone
C                      D
But morning breaks—and you move on


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🎵 🌑 Chorus
Em               C
And once again, to dark I fall
G                D
Lost to the ocean’s call
Em                 C
No one can save the child I hide
G                   D
I let her go, she slipped inside

Em              C
Frozen now, no hand to hold
G                  D
Light too weak, the dark too bold
Am                   Em
You can’t hold onto melting snow
C               D                Em
Or to tears that never flow


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🎵 Verse 2
Em               C
You held me when I was all but gone
G                D
A ghost too tired to stand
Em                   C
You stayed until I found the strength
G                    D
To finally reach your hand


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🎵 Pre-Chorus (repeat)
Am                   Em
But now I drift beyond your sight
C                 G
Fading in the failing light
Am              Em
You can’t stop what you don’t see
C                    D
The silence now is swallowing me


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🎵 Final Chorus
Em              C
You held me once, but not again
G                  D
The night returns where love had been
Em                  C
No one can save me from the deep
G              D
Or catch the girl I couldn’t keep

Em             C
Frozen in a fate I know
G                  D
Where every hand will let me go
Am                   Em
You can’t hold on to melting snow
C               D                  Em
Or to tears that never flow


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🎵 Outro (whispered or instrumental)
C   G   D   Em
C   G   D   Em


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🎸 Chord Guide:

Em – 022000

C – x32010

G – 320003

D – xx0232

Am – x02210



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This would work beautifully with soft picking—especially alternating bass note + top strings