I Hate It Here - The Lakes Live chords by Taylor Swift

• Capo on 1st
• Difficulty: Intermediate

Performance @ Eras Tour

Key: D

G

Verse:
Bm
Quick, quick
                    D
Tell me something awful like you are a poet
                  G
Trapped inside the body of a finance guy

Tell me all your secrets

All you’ll ever be is
              Bm
My eternal consolation prize
                  D
You see I was a debutant in another life, but
                 G
Now I seem to be scared to go outside

If comfort is a construct, I don’t believe in good luck

Now that I know what’s what


Chorus:
 D
I hate it here so I will go to secret gardens in my mind
Bm
People need a key to get to, the only one is mine
 A                        G
I read about it in a book when I was a precocious child

No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears
D                       Bm
I’m there most of the year ’cause I hate it here
        A Bm
I hate it here


Verse:
D      F#m     Em     Bm
 Is it romantic how all my elegies eulogize me?
D      F#m        Em
 I'm not cut out for all these cynical clones
Bm
These hunters with cell phones


Chorus:
F#m               G
 Take me to the Lakes where all the poets went to die
       Bm              A/C#
I don't belong and, my beloved, neither do you
F#m                G
 Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry
        A
I'm setting off, but not without my muse


G Em Bm Bm


Bridge:
  A
I’m lonely, but I’m good

I’m bitter, but I swear I’m fine
   G                           Em   Bm
I’ll save all my romanticism for my inner life and I’ll get lost on purpose
        G    D
This place made me feel worthless
Em             Bm                  G            D
Lucid dreams like electricity, the current flies through me and in my fantasies I rise above it
  G        N.C.
And way up there, I actually love it

D      F#m      Em
 A red rose grew up out of ice frozen ground
   Bm
With no one around to tweet it
D         F#m
 While I bathe in cliffside pools
     Em           Bm
With my calamitous love and insurmountable grief


Chorus:
F#m               G
 Take me to the Lakes where all the poets went to die
       Bm              A/C#
I don't belong and, my beloved, neither do you
F#m                G
 Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry
        A
I'm setting off, but not without my muse

 D
I hate it here so I will go to secret gardens in my mind
Bm
People need a key to get to, the only one is mine
 A                        G
I read about it in a book when I was a precocious child

No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears

 D
I hate it here so I will go to Lunar valleys in my mind
Bm
When they found a better planet Only the gentle survived
 A
I dreamed about it in the dark
               G
The night I felt like I might die

No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears
D                       Bm
I’m there most of the year ’cause I hate it here


Outro:
So take me to the Lakes

        A
I hate it here


So take me to the Lakes
        F#m       G
Take me to the Lakes where all the poets went to die
       Bm              A/C#
I don't belong and, my beloved, neither do you
F#m
 Those Windermere peaks--
     G
Look like a perfect place to cry
          A          Em
So I'm setting off, but not without my muse
        D
No, not without you