These are I Hate It Here chords by Taylor Swift on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.
[Verse 1]
Bm
Quick, quick
G
Tell me something awful
D
like you are a poet
D
Trapped inside the body
of a finance guy
Bm G
Tell me all your secrets
D
All you’ll ever be is
Bm
My eternal consolation prize
G
You see I was a debutant
D
in another life, but
Now I seem to be scared
Bm
to go outside
D
If comfort is a construct,
I don’t believe
in good luck
Now that I know
what’s what
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[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
I read about it in a
book when I was a
G
precocious child
No mid-sized city hopes
and small-town fears
D
I’m there most of the
Bm
year ’cause I hate it here
A G
I hate it here
[Verse 2]
Bm
My friends used to
G
play a game where
D
We would pick a decade
We wished we could live
Bm
in instead of this
G
I’d say the 1830s
D
but without all the racists
And getting married
Bm
off for the highest bid
G
Everyone would look
D
down ’cause it wasn’t fun now
Seems like it was
Bm
never even fun back then
G
Nostalgia is a mind’s
trick
If I’d been there,
D
I’d hate it
It was freezing in
the palace
[Chorus]
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
The night I felt like
G
I might die
No mid-sized city hopes
and small-town fears
D
I’m there most of the year
Bm
’cause I hate it here
A G
I hate it here
[Bridge]
A
I’m lonely, but I’m good
I’m bitter, but I swear
I’m fine
G
I’ll save all my romanticism
for my inner life and
Em Bm
I’ll get lost on purpose
G
This place made me
D
feel worthless
Em Bm
Lucid dreams like electricity,
the current flies through me
G
and in my fantasies
D
I rise above it
G
And way up there,
I actually love it
[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
I read about it in a
book when I was a
G
precocious child
No mid-sized city
hopes and small-town fears
D
I’m there most of the
Bm
year ’cause I hate it here
A G
I hate it here
[Outro]
Quick, quick, tell
me something awful
D
Like you are a poet
Trapped inside the
Bm
body of a finance guy
G A G D