Key: D major
Verse 1
D
Bm
G
A
D
Bm
G
A
Bm
G
Em
A
wants to be in love with someone,
D
Bm
just not with someone they
Em
G
A
know.
Bm
G
will tell you they're a cynic,
F#
Bm
Em
then cry at some old movie
Abdim
G
Oh, eight million people
Em
A
in twenty -two square miles
Em
G
D
A
And there's never any one to meet
Em
G
A
We're like guests at a banquet
C#m
A
B
So we hunger for the waiter
E
C#m
Or crave the operator
D
A
on the telephone
B
G#m
C#
Just trying not to be alone
F#m
B
E
Em
A
On this crowded is land
D
Bm
Everyone I know
G
A
Wants someone to hold them
D
Bm
G
Just not in too tight a grip
A
D
Everyone I know
Bm
G
F#
Believes that love will save them
Bm
G#dim
Just not their current relationship
G
Em
A
Bsus4
Oh, over a beer or a stove,
A
Em
my friends pour out their
G
A
Bsus4
tales of woe
A
Em
G
A
How they can't get a lov
Bsus4
A
E
er to stay or to go
C#m
A
B
We're all closet romantics,
E
C#m
the soundtrack in our head
A
B
G#m
C#
Just try ing not to be alone
F#m
B
E
C#m
A
Bm
G
F#
D#m
on this crowded island
B
C#sus4
C#
F#
D#m
B
C#
F#
D#m
B
A#
D#m
C#
Cdim
G
Em
C
D
G
Em
C
Ebdim
Ba da ba ba da da ba ba ba da ba da
G
Em
C
B
Em
C#dim
Em
ba ba da ba ba da ba da ba
A
D
Everyone I know,
Bm
G
A
wants to be in love with someone,
D
Bm
just not with someone they know.
G
A
D
Everyone I know
Bm
G
will meet someone at a party
F#
Bm
And think, should I start planning
Em
G
Bsus4
A
How awful and corny I smile at you
Em
G
Feeling I could use more charm
Bsus4
A
Em
G
Then you smile on back
A
Bsus4
And all I feel is alarm
E
C#m
A
B
I don't know if I want you
E
C#m
But I'm putting on my black jeans
B
G#m
C#
And tonight we won't be alone
F#m
B
E
C#m
On this crowded island
A
B
E
C#m
On this crowded is land
A
B
E
This little crowded island
C#m
A
B
E
C#m
A
B
C#m
A
You
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