These are I Hate It Here – The Lakes chords Taylor Swift by on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.
G
[Verse]
Bm
Quick, quick
Tell me something
awful
D
like you are a poet
Trapped inside the body
G
of a finance guy
Tell me all your
secrets
All you’ll ever be is
My eternal consolation
Bm
prize
You see I was a
debutant in
D
another life, but
Now I seem to be scared
G
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
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 year ’cause
Bm
I hate it here
A Bm
I hate it here
[Verse]
D F#m
Is it romantic
how all
my elegies
eulogize me?
D F#m
I'm not cut out
for all
Em
these cynicalclones
Bm
These hunters with
cell phones
[Chorus]
F#m
Take me to the
Lakes where all
G
the poets went
to die
Bm
I don't belong and,
my beloved,
A/C#
neither do you
F#m
Those Windermere
peaks look like
G
a perfect place
to cry
A
I'm setting off, but
not without my muse
G Em Bm Bm
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[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
I’ll get
Em Bm
lost on purpose
This place made
G
me feel
D
worthless
Em
Lucid dreams like
electricity,
the current
flies through me and
G
in my fantasies
D
I rise above it
G
And way up there, I
actually love it
D F#m
A red rose grew up
out
Em
of ice frozen ground
Bm
With no one around
to
tweet it
D
While I bathe in
F#m
cliffside pools
Em
With my calamitous
love and
Bm
insurmountable grief
[Chorus]
F#m
Take me to the
Lakes where all
G
the poets went
to die
Bm
I don't belong and,
my beloved,
A/C#
neither do you
F#m
Those Windermere
peaks look like
G
a perfect place
to cry
I'm setting
A
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
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 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 ’cause
Bm
I hate it here
[Outro]
So take me to
the Lakes
A
I hate it here
So take me to the
Lakes
F#m
Take me to the Lakes
where all
G
the poets went to die
Bm
I don't belong and,
my beloved,
A/C#
neither do you
F#m
Those Windermere
peaks--
G
Look like a perfect
place to cry
So I'm setting
A
off, but not
Em
without my muse
D
No, not without you