I'll Take Lonely Tonight

Lead Vocals / Piano / Keyboards: Tim Minchin

Guitar/Backing Vocals: Jak Housden

Bass: James Haselwood

Drums: Evan Mannell

Backing Vocals: Sarah Belkner

Produced by: Daniel Denholm

Mixed by: Eric J Dubowsky

Mastered by : Steve Smart at 301

I’ll take lonely tonight

Your offer is kind

An I must confess that I find

Your casual caresses and that pretty dress

Pretty hard to resist

And Christ what a night

I think you’re pretty high

I know I’m pretty pissed

But I’ll take lonely tonight

Though I’m not denying

I hate being alone

Even so I know regret in the making

You’re one of those others I swore I’d forsake

And although this extraction is taking

A great act of will

I got a girl has my heart in a house on a hill

So though I am hungry and tempted

I’m sorry I’m not going to bite

I’m gonna take lonely

I’ll take lonely tonight

Though I know I might well

Have future regrets

That I didn’t more often take up these chances

For what is life for but to shag, drink and dance

And teenager me would be screaming his pants off

Begging me to stay

But my girl has my heart in a house half a planet away

And I’d rather murder than hurt her

So sorry though it feels so right

I’m gonna take lonely tonight

Odysseus wasn’t strong enough

To endure the Siren song and so

He made his sailors tie him to a mast

And Jesus spent forty days and forty nights

And he stood his ground and fought his fight

And the devil tried but couldn't break his fast

If this is true

The devil should’ve offered him you

Goddammit

I’ll take lonely tonight in my three-point-five star

Boutique hotel

Where I will spend Twenty-five bucks

On minibar snacks

And pass out on my phone

And wake in four hours or so

Soaked in relief to find

I am alone

With only the wrappers

Of Pringles and Snickers

For which to atone

Blissfully lonely

CREDITS Hairy guy singing in a boat: Tim Minchin Producer / Director : Carolyn Constantine ACS Dancer: Deborah Brown