Ill Take Lonely Tonight chords by Tim Minchin

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
G+G E minorEm G+G E minorEm A minorAm C majorC


Verse 1:
G+G     E minorEm       G+G
I'll take lonely tonight
   E minorEm    G+G
Your offer is kind
  E minorEm    G+G
And I must confess
   E minorEm     A minorAm
That I find your casual caresses
  A minorAm
And that pretty dress
    C majorC
Pretty hard to resist

  A minorAm
And Christ what a night
    A minorAm
I think you're pretty high
    C majorC
I know I'm pretty p**sed

Verse 2:
  G+G     E minorEm       G+G
But I'll take lonely tonight
    E minorEm    G+G
Though I'm not denying
 E minorEm     G+G
I hate being alone

E minorEm     A minorAm
Even so, I know regret in the making
          C majorC           Cmaj7Cmaj7
You're one of those others I swore I'd forsake
   A minorAm
And although this extraction is taking
  C majorC
A augmentedA great act of will


Chorus 1:
A minorAm
I got a girl
    A minorAm
Has my heart in a house
  G+G
On a hill

        A minorAm
So though I am hungry and tempted
  A minorAm          C majorC
I'm sorry, I'm not gonna bite
            G+G E minorEm G+G E minorEm
I'm gonna take lonely

Verse 3:
G+G     E minorEm       G+G
I'll take lonely tonight
    E minorEm    G+G
Though I know I might
     E minorEm    G+G
Well have future regrets
   E minorEm    A minorAm
That I didn't more often take up these chances
         C majorC
For what is life for
    C majorC
But to share, drink and dances
       A minorAm
And teenager me would be screaming his pants off
    C majorC
Begging me to stay


Chorus 2:
    A minorAm
But my girl has my heart
   A minorAm        G+G
In a house half a planet away
        A minorAm
And I'd rather murder
   A minorAm
Than hurt her
  A minorAm            C majorC
So sorry, though it feels so right
           G+G    D MajorD
I'm gonna take lonely tonight


Bridge:
 E minorEm
Odysseus wasn't strong enough
  D MajorD
To endure the silent song
   C majorC
So he made the sailors tie him to a mast
        E minorEm
And Jesus spent forty days and forty nights
  D MajorD
He stood his ground and fought his fight
  C majorC
The Devil tried, but couldn't break his fast

      D MajorD
If this is true
                 C majorC
The Devil should have offered him you

C majorC
God damn it


Verse 4:
G+G     E minorEm       G+G
I'll take lonely tonight
  E minorEm       G+G    E minorEm     G+G
In my three point five star boutique hotel
   E minorEm      A minorAm
Where I will spend 25 bucks
              C majorC
On mini bar snacks and pass out on my phone
  A minorAm
And wake in 4 hours or so
             C majorC
Soaked in relief to find I am alone
   A minorAm
With only the wrappers of Pringles and Snickers
  C majorC
For which to atone
C majorC
Blissfully lonely


Outro:
G+G E minorEm G+G E minorEm A minorAm C majorC