Chords with lyrics
🎸 Verse 1:
G+G B minorBm
I picked myself up in a downtown bar
E minorEm D MajorD A augmentedA
You know the feelin' was lousy but as I'd come this far
A minorAm E minor 7Em7 B minorBm
Well it's too easy to drink when nobody's home
A7A7
But I hate to eat alone
🎸 Verse 2:
G+G B minorBm
And frozen dinners don't do much for me
E minorEm D MajorD A augmentedA
When you've got TV on the table and TV on TV
A minorAm E minor 7Em7 B minorBm
All you do is chew your fingers down to the bone
A7A7 Cmaj7Cmaj7 D7D7
I hate to eat alone
🎸 Verse 3:
C minorCm F7F7 Bb majorBb
Like the actor who's forgotten his words
Ab6Ab6 Gm7Gm7
You stumble through the story line
FF Eb MajorEb
Another place another time when you were with me
🎸 Verse 4:
G+G B minorBm
They say the city's rotten to the core
E minorEm D MajorD A augmentedA
There's no communication with each other anymore
A minorAm E minor 7Em7 B minorBm
But we stopped talkin' to each other A augmentedA long time before
A7A7
And I hate to eat alone
🎸 Verse 5:
G+G B minorBm E minorEm
Hear it in my words, see it in my eyes
A minorAm E minorEm
Since you went away I wear a cheap disguise
Cmaj7Cmaj7 A7A7
Waitin' for the mornin', waitin' on the light
D7D7
Hopin' for the sunshine before the night
🎸 Verse 6:
G+G B minorBm
I didn't tell you that I had to change
E minorEm D MajorD A augmentedA
So you just took it for granted that we'd remain the same
A minorAm E minor 7Em7 B minorBm
I know that nobody's guilty. No one's to blame so I end up on my own
A7A7
God I hate to eat alone
A7A7
I hate to eat alone; I hate to eat alone