Verse 1 
CG It's been seven hours and fifteen days,
AmC - G since you took your love away.
CG I go out every night and sleep all day,
AmC - G since you took your love away.
CG Since you've been gone I can do whatever I want,
AmC - G I can see whomever I choose.
CG I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant,
Am but nothing,
E I said nothing can take away these blues.
 Chorus 1 
A#F 'Cause nothing compares,
A#FG nothing compares to you.
 Interlude 1 
G x4
Verse 2 
CG It's been so lonely without you here,
AmC - G like a bird without a song.
CG Nothing can stop these lonely tears from falling,
AmF tell me baby where did I go wrong?
CG I can put my arms round every girl I see,
AmC - G but they'd only remind me of you.
CG I went to the doctor guess what he told me,
guess what he told me? 
Am He said son you better try to have fun
E no matter what you do. He's a fool.
 Chorus 2 
A#F 'Cause nothing compares
AmGG nothing compares to you
 Interlude 2 
G x4
Verse 3 
C All the flowers that you planted momma,
G in the backyard
AmC - G They all died when you went away.
CG I know that living with you, baby, was sometimes hard,
AmE but I'm willing to give it another try.
 Chorus 3 - x2 
A#F 'Cause nothing compares
AmGG nothing compares to you
 End on C