I picked myself up in a downtown bar    You know the feelin' was lousy    But as I'd come this far    Well it's too easy to drink    When nobody's home    But I hate to eat alone    `N' frozen dinners don't do much for me    When you've got T.V. on the table    `N' T.V. on T.V.    All you do is chew your fingers    Down to the bone    I hate to eat alone    Like the actor who's forgotten his words    You stumble through the story line    Another place another time    When you were with me    They say the city's rotten to the core    There's no communication with each other anymore    But we stopped talkin' to each other a long time before    And I hate to eat alone    Hear it in my words    See it in my eyes    Since you went away    I wear a cheap disguise    Waitin' for the mornin'    Waitin' on the light    Hopin' for the sunshine    Before the night    I didn't tell you that I had to change    So you just took it for granted    That we'd remain the same    I know that nobody's guilty    No one's to blame so I end up on my own    God I hate to eat alone    I hate to eat alone    I hate to eat alone    I hate to eat alone