What It Takes

/Written by Steve Tyler, Joe Perry, and Desmond Child, copyright 1989 by Swag Song Music, Inc./

From the CD "Pump," by Aerosmith, 1989


There goes my old girlfriend well there's another diamond ring and all those late-night promises I guess they don't mean a thing...

So baby what's the story, did you find another man? Is it easy to sleep in the bed that we made? When you don't look back I guess the feelings start to fade away...

I used to feel your fire but now it's cold inside and you're back on the street like you didn't miss a beat, yeah

Tell me what it takes to let you go tell me how the pain's supposed to go tell me how it is that you can sleep in the night without thinking you lost everything that was good in your life to the toss of the dice tell me what it takes to let you go

Girl before I met you, I was F.I.N.E. fine but your love made me a prisoner yeah my heart's been doin' time...

Spend me up like money then you hung me out to dry it was easy to keep all your lies in disguise 'cause you had me deep with the devil in your eyes

Tell me what it takes to let you go tell me how the pain's supposed to go Tell me how it is that you can sleep in the night without thinking you lost everything that was good in your life to the toss of the dice... Tell me what it takes to let you go

Guitar...

Tell me that you're happy that you're on your own tell me that it's better when you're all alone tell me that your body doesn't miss my touch tell me that my lovin' didn't mean that much tell me you were lyin' when you were cryin' for me

Tell me what it takes to let you go Tell me how the pain's supposed to go Tell me how it is that you can sleep in the night without thinking you lost everything that was good in your life to the toss of the dice Tell me who's to blame for thinking twice (no no no no) 'cause I don't wanna burn in paradise

(let it go let it go ... )