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(G)There goes my old girl friend, there’s an oth er dia mond ring.
And, uh, (Em)all those late night prom (D)is es (C)I guess they don’t mean a thing.
So (G)ba by, what’s the sto ry?
Did you find an oth er man?
Is it (Em)eas y to sleep in the bed that we made?
When you (C)don’t look back, I guess the feel ings start to fade a way.
I (G)used to feel your fire, but now it’s (Em)cold in side.
And you’re (C)back on the street like you did n’t miss a beat, yeah.
Tell me what it takes to let you (F)go.
Tell me how the pain’s sup posed to (F)go.
Tell me how it (A)is that you can (Dm)sleep in the (Dm)night with out (B)think ing you lost ev ’ry thing that was good in your life to the toss of the dice?
Tell me what it (Db)takes to let you go.
Yeah.
(G)Girl, be fore I met you I was F I N E, fine.
But your (Em)love made me a pris (D)on er, (C)yeah, my heart’s been do ing time.
You (G)spent me up like mon ey, then you hung me out to dry.
It was (Em)eas y to keep all your lies in dis guise, ’cause you (C)had me in deep with the dev il in your eyes.
Tell me what it takes to let you (F)go.
Tell me how the pain’s sup posed to (F)go.
Tell me how it (A)is that you can (Dm)sleep in the (Dm)night with out (Bdim7)think ing you lost ev ’ry thing that was good in your life to the toss of the dice?
Tell me what it (Db)takes to let you go.
Gui tar!
Tell me that you’re hap py that you’re on your (G)own.
Yeah yeah.
(Bb)Yeah, tell me that it’s bet ter when you’re all a (F)lone.
Tell me that your bod y does n’t (Eb)miss my (Db)touch.
Tell me that my lov in’ did n’t mean that (Ab)much.
Tell me you ain’t dy in’ when you’re cry in’ for (C)me.
Tell me what it takes to let you (F)go.
Tell me how the pain’s sup posed to (F)go.
Uh, tell me how it (A)is that you can (Dm)sleep in the (Dm)night with out (B)think in’ you lost ev ’ry thing that was good in your life to the toss of the dice?
Tell me who’s to (Db)blame for think in’ twice,
no no no no, ’cause I don’t wan na (Db)burn in par a dise.
Oo.
Let go.
Let go.
Let go.
(F)I don’t wan na burn in par a dise.
Let it (Dm)go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it (Bb)go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it (F)go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it (Dm)go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it (Bb)go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it (F)go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it
This page shows “What It Takes” by Aerosmith in our color-coded kid songbook view — every note is colored by pitch (red C, orange D, yellow E, green F, blue G, purple A, pink B) and the lyrics sit directly under each note, so children can sing along while they play. The song is in the key of G at 76 BPM, a medium-difficulty arrangement — try slowing the tempo down using the BPM control.
This arrangement is a fantastic workout for navigating chromatic chord movement — with 17 chords including Aaug, Bdim7, and shifts through Db, Ab, and Eb, your hands need to stay relaxed and ready to travel. At 76 BPM you have breathing room, but don't let that fool you; the walking bass in your left hand demands smooth, even finger transitions while your right hand voices some unusual shapes like that Bb7 and Bdim7. Start hands-separate and really drill the left hand's bass line until it feels automatic — once you add the right hand, you won't have mental bandwidth to think about both. Watch the transition from Bm7 to Bb and the chromatic descents especially; those are where most students stumble, so loop those two-bar passages slowly before speeding up. Pedal lightly through the ballad sections but lift cleanly on each bass step so the walking line doesn't blur. This is the piece that'll build your confidence moving through chromatic key centers — a skill that unlocks so much of real-world pop-rock playing.