A Kiss Is A Terrible Thing To Waste chords by Meat Loaf

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Advanced

Key: B minorBm

🤘 Intro:

B minorBm | B minorBm | A augmentedA | A augmentedA
B minorBm | B minorBm | A augmentedA | A augmentedA
B minorBm | B minorBm | A augmentedA | A augmentedA
B minorBm | B minorBm | A augmentedA | A augmentedA
B minorBm A augmentedA D MajorD G+G | F#sus4F#sus4 _ F#F# B minorBm


🤘 Verse 1:
    B minorBm              G+G    F#sus4F#sus4 F#F#  B minorBm
If you listen to the night, you can hear the dark - ness call
   G+G        D MajorD      G+G        D MajorD
I can barely stand to wait, I can barely stand at all
    B minorBm              G+G    F#sus4F#sus4 F#F#  B minorBm
Come on closer to me now, like we're sharing the   same skin
     G+G        D MajorD       G+G       D MajorD
We gotta get out of this jail, we gotta let the future in

    BbmBbm               FF    GbGb
So many things in your life that you're bound to regret
          DbDb  GbGb     DbDb
Why didn't I do that? Why didn't I do this?
    BbmBbm               FF    GbGb
So many chances you've lost that you'll never forget
       DbDb    GbGb       DbDb
Why didn't I make it?  Why didn't I take it right there?

Pre🤘 Chorus 1:
  B minorBm
The loneliest words you'll ever know:
  A/BA/B
"If only, if only it was so."
  B minorBm
The emptiest words that there'll ever be:
  A/BA/B
"It could have been me, it could have been me."

  B minorBm
The loneliest words you'll ever know:
  A/BA/B
"If only, if only it was so."
  B minorBm
The emptiest words that there'll ever be:
  A/BA/B
"It could have been me, it could have been me."

C# minorC#m
   You'll have to pay for it later
       B/C#
If you don't get it when it's going for free
  G#7/C#    C# minorC#m  BB  E MajorE  A augmentedA | G#sus4G#sus4 _ G#G# C# minorC#m
Be-lieve me, be-lieve me

🤘 Chorus:
 Db6Db6    DbDb    Db6Db6      DbDb
A augmentedA Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
 Db6Db6    DbDb    Dbadd9Dbadd9     DbDb
A augmentedA Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
   GbGb        CbCb GbGb    Gb/Db  D MajorD
It's something that's al-ways been so

 Db6Db6    DbDb    Db6Db6      DbDb
A augmentedA Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
 Db6Db6    DbDb    Dbadd9Dbadd9     DbDb
A augmentedA Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
  GbGb                FF+           BbmBbm
And one of these nights you're gonna show me that you already know

     A augmentedA+                             BbmBbm
There's a feast waiting for you and you've never even gotten a taste
                Gbm(maj7)          DbDb   B minorBm A augmentedA D MajorD G+G | F#sus4F#sus4 _ F#F# B minorBm
It's later than you think and A augmentedA Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste


🤘 Verse 2:
       B minorBm                F#sus4F#sus4  F#F#    B minorBm
You shouldn't tremble when we touch, there's no rea - son for these fears
    G+G        D MajorD        G+G         D MajorD
It's a promise that was made, we've been promised this for years
    B minorBm            F#sus4F#sus4 F#F#     B minorBm
I wanna show you it all, what to do, and where, and how
       G+G      D MajorD      G+G     D MajorD
'Cause we'll never be as young as we are right now
   G+G      D MajorD      G+G     D MajorD
We'll never be as young as we are right now

    BbmBbm             FF     GbGb
So many cries in the night that you try to ig-nore:
          DbDb  GbGb     DbDb
Why didn't I do that? Why didn't I do this?
    BbmBbm             FF    GbGb
So many unanswered prayers, so many unopened doors
       DbDb    GbGb       DbDb
Why didn't I take it?  Why didn't I make it come true?


Pre🤘 Chorus 1:
  B minorBm
The loneliest words you'll ever know:
  A/BA/B
"If only, if only it was so."
  B minorBm
The emptiest words that there'll ever be:
  A/BA/B
"It could have been me, it could have been me."

  B minorBm
The loneliest words you'll ever know:
  A/BA/B
"If only, if only it was so."
  B minorBm
The emptiest words that there'll ever be:
  A/BA/B
"It could have been me, it could have been me."

C# minorC#m
   You'll have to pay for it later
       B/C#
If you don't get it when it's going for free
  G#7/C#    C# minorC#m  B/C#  C# minorC#m  B/C#
Be-lieve me; be-lieve me, be-lieve me


🤘 Chorus:
 Db6Db6    DbDb    Db6Db6      DbDb
A augmentedA Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
 Db6Db6    DbDb    Dbadd9Dbadd9     DbDb
A augmentedA Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
   GbGb        CbCb GbGb    Gb/Db  D MajorD
It's something that's al-ways been so

 Db6Db6    DbDb    Db6Db6      DbDb
A augmentedA Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
 Db6Db6    DbDb    Dbadd9Dbadd9     DbDb
A augmentedA Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
  GbGb                FF+           BbmBbm
And one of these nights you're gonna show me that you already know

     A augmentedA+                             BbmBbm
There's a feast waiting for you and you've never even gotten a taste
                Gbm(maj7)         (Db6Db6 in solo)
It's later than you think and A augmentedA Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste


🤘 Solo:
Db6Db6 DbDb | Db6Db6 DbDb
Db6Db6 DbDb | Dbadd9Dbadd9 DbDb
GbGb _ CbCb GbGb | Gb/Db DbDb

Db6Db6 DbDb | Db6Db6 DbDb
Db6Db6 DbDb | Dbadd9Dbadd9 DbDb
GbGb | FF+ | BbmBbm | BbmBbm


Tag 1:
     A augmentedA+                             BbmBbm
There's a feast waiting for you and you've never even gotten a taste
                Gbm(maj7)          E5E5
It's later than you think and A augmentedA Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste


🤘 Bridge:
E minorEm
Tire tracks and broken hearts, it's all we're leaving behind
D MajorD                       E minorEm
   It doesn't matter what we're losing, only matters what we're going to find
E minorEm
Tire tracks and broken hearts, it's all we're leaving behind
D MajorD                       E minorEm  D MajorD  G+G  C majorC   Bsus4Bsus4  BB E minorEm
   It doesn't matter what we're losing, only mat - ters what we're go - ing to find

E minorEm
Tire tracks and broken hearts, it's all we're leaving behind (Let's get away from the past)
D MajorD                       E minorEm
   It doesn't matter what we're losing, only matters what we're going to find (So many ways to go fast)


🤘 Instrumental:
E minorEm | E minorEm | E minorEm | E minorEm
D MajorD | D MajorD | E minorEm D MajorD G+G C majorC | Bsus4Bsus4 _ BB E minorEm


Bridge, continued:
E minorEm
Tire tracks and broken hearts, it's all we're leaving behind
D MajorD                       E minorEm
   It doesn't matter what we're losing, only matters what we're going to find
E minorEm
Tire tracks and broken hearts, it's all we're leaving behind
D MajorD                       E minorEm  D MajorD  G+G  C majorC   Bsus4Bsus4  BB E minorEm
   It doesn't matter what we're losing, only mat - ters what we're go - ing to find


Tag 2:
     C majorC+                             DbmDbm
There's a feast waiting for you and you've never even gotten a taste
                Am(maj7)           E MajorE
It's later than you think and A augmentedA Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste (A augmentedA Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste)
 Am(maj7)          E MajorE    C# minorC#m BB E MajorE A augmentedA | G#sus4G#sus4 _ G#G# C# minorC#m ||
A augmentedA Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste