D
You ran cryin' to the bedroom
                 G
I ran off to the bar,
A7                              D
Another piece of heaven gone to hell,
D
the words we spoke in anger
                   G
just tore my world apart,
      A7                            D
And I sat there feeling sorry for myself.
D
Then that old man sat down beside me
                     G
and looked me in the eye,
          A7                            D
and said "Son, I know what you're going through,
D
You ought to get down on your knees
                         G               A7                     D
and thank your lucky stars, that you got someone to go home to."


[Chorus]

D         D7         G
You don't know about lonely,
            D
Or how long nights can be,
D                          A7
Till you lived through the story
                       D
That's still livin' in me,
              D7         G
And you don't know about sadness
                    D
'til you faced life alone,
                     A7
You don't know about lonely
                      D
'til it's chiseled in stone.


[Verse]

D
So I brought these pretty flowers
                      G
hoping you would understand
    A7                    D
sometimes a man is such a fool,
D
Those golden words of wisdom
                          G
from the heart of that old man,
A7                                D
showed me I ain't nothing without you.


[Chorus]

D         D7         G
You don't know about lonely,
            D
Or how long nights can be,
D                          A7
Till you lived through the story
                       D
that old man just told me,
              D7         G
And you don't know about sadness
                    D
'til you faced life alone,
                     A7
You don't know about lonely
                      D
'til it's chiseled in stone.
                     A7
You don't know about lonely,
                      D
'til it's chiseled in stone.