Heartache Tonight
by Don Henley/Glenn Frey/Bob Seger/J.D.Souther
performed by The Eagles
from "The Long Run", 1980
transcribed by Peter Eybert


[Intro]

      


[Verse 1]

             
Somebody's gon

            
na hurt someon

             
e before the n

        
ight is throug

h
             
Somebody's gon

             
na come undone

             
, there's noth

           
ing we can do.
             
Everybody want

            
s to touch som

             
ebody, if it t

         
akes all night

.
             
Everybody want

             
s to take a li

             
ttle chance, m

              
ake it come ou

  
t right.


[Chorus]

            
There's gonna 

            
be a heartache

              
 tonight, a he

              
artache tonigh

    
t I know.
              
There's gonna 

            
be a heartache

              
 tonight, a he

              
artache tonigh

    
t I know.
        
Lord, I know.


[Verse 2]

             
Some people li

            
ke to stay out

             
 late, some fo

              
lks can't hold

          
 out that long

.
             
But nobody wan

             
ts to go home 

             
now, there's t

              
oo much going 


on.
             
This night is 

            
gonna last for

             
ever, last all

              
, last all sum

    
mer long.
             
Some time befo

             
re the sun com

             
es up the radi

           
o is gonna pla

y that song.


[Chorus]

            
There's gonna 

            
be a heartache

              
 tonight, a he

              
artache tonigh

    
t I know.
              
There's gonna 

            
be a heartache

              
 tonight, a he

              
artache tonigh

    
t I know.
        
Lord, I know.


[Bridge]

              
There's gonna 

             
be a heartache

              
 tonight, the 


moon's shining

 bright,
            
so turn out th

             
e light, and w

#
e'll get it ri

ght.
              
There's gonna 

             
be a heartache

            
 tonight, a he

              
artache tonigh

    
t I know.

         x4


[Verse 1]

             
Somebody's gon

            
na hurt someon

             
e before the n

        
ight is throug

h
             
Somebody's gon

             
na come undone

             
, there's noth

           
ing we can do.
             
Everybody want

            
s to touch som

             
ebody, if it t

         
akes all night

.
             
Everybody want

             
s to take a li

             
ttle chance, m

              
ake it come ou

  
t right.


[Chorus]

            
There's gonna 

            
be a heartache

              
 tonight, a he

              
artache tonigh

    
t I know.
              
There's gonna 

            
be a heartache

              
 tonight, a he

              
artache tonigh

    
t I know.
        
Lord, I know.


[Verse 3]

             
We can beat ar

              
ound the bushe

          
s, we can get 

down to the bo

ne,
            
we can leave i

              
t in a parking

         
 lot but eithe


r way
              
There's gonna 

             
be a heartache

            
 tonight, a he

              
artache tonigh

            
t, I know.
              
There'll be a 

             
heartache toni

            
ght, a heartac

              
he tonight, I 


know.

         x4