Wasted Time
The Eagles
Hotel California
1976

Intro:
C  Fm6 /Bb /Ab C/G G7

Verse 1:
C                          Fm6  /Bb /Ab
    Well, baby, there you stand
C/G                                    G11    G7
    with your little head down in your hand.
F              C/E                Dm         C/E
Oh my God, you can't believe it's happening again.
     F                        C/E            Dm             G11  G7
Your baby's gone and you're all alone and it looks like the end.

Verse 2:
(repeat verse 1 chords above)
And you're back out on the street
and you're tryin' to remember.
How do you start it over? You don't know if you can.
You don't care much for a stranger's touch but you can't hold your man.

Chorus:
Am                           E/G#
  You never thought you'd be alone
G                   D/F#
this far down the line
    F                           Em
and I know what's been on your mind,
       Dm                   G11 G7 C
you're afraid it's all been wasted time.

Bridge:
Bm7           E7           Am
    The autumn leaves have got you thinking
Bm7          E7          Am                /Bb
    about the first time that you fell.
Bm7           E7        Am            C/G
    You didn't love the boy too much, no no, 
        F   C/E            Fm6          G11  G7
you just loved the boy too well____  er-well

Verse 3:
(same as verse 1)
So you live from day to day
and you dream about tomorrow, oh.
And the hours go by like minutes and the shadows come to stay.
So ya take a little something to make them go away.

Chorus:
(same as above chorus)
And I could have done so many things, baby,
if I could only stop my mind
from wond'rin' what I left behind
and from worryin' bout this wasted time.

Ab                     C
Ooh, another love has come and gone.
Ab                      C           /D  /E
Ooh, and the years keep rushing on.
  F                 C/E            Dm            C/E
I remember what you told me before you went out on your own:
        F             C/E               Dm        G11
sometimes to keep it together we got to leave it alone.

Chorus:
(same as above chorus)
So you can get on with your search, baby,
and I can get on with mine.
And maybe someday we will find
        Dm            G11 G7 C       /E    /F  /G
that it wasn't really wasted time.

Ab      /Bb C  /E  /F /G

Ab    Fm6    C


CHORDS:
Fm6    1x0111  (barre the 1-3 string 1st fret, thumb 6th string)
Ab    466544
C/E 032010
C/G    332010
E/G# 4x2400
D/F# 200232  (thumb 6th string)
G11 3x321x
G7 32303x

[Thanks to Andreas for corrections]