• Song:

    Everything Means Nothing To Me

  • Artist:

    Elliott Smith

  • Album:

    La Cigale

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                     Elliott Smith – Everything Means Nothing To Me
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Tabbed by: Gallagher2006

Tuning: Standard

Easy song, and heartbreaking. Gotta love it. Piano arranged for guitar, obviously. It 
key quite a bit, so it'll be a bit harder to sing than your average Elliott song =]

Chords

Ab		[466544]
C#m/Ab	[446654]
A		[577655]
B		[799877]
F#m		[244222]
Fsus4		[133311]
Bbm		[x13321]
A*		[x02220]
Absus4	[x46444]
G5		[3x0033]
F#		[244322]

Verse

Ab                C#m/Ab      A
Someone found the future as a statue
     B           A
in a fountain at attention,
Ab                    F#m
looking backward in a pool of water
F#m
Wishes with a blue
Fsus4           Bbm
songbird on his shoulder
A*         Absus4       G5
Who keeps singing over everything

Chorus

F#
Everything means nothing to me
F#
Everything means nothing to me
F#
Everything means nothing to me

Theres a little riff played on the piano here. I've tabbed the basic melody, but also 
harmony tab -

e|---------0-1-3-5-----------------------------------------------------------|
B|---0-1-3-----------------------------0-1-3-5-6-8-10------------------------|
G|-2----------------------OR---------2-----4-5-7-9-10------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Verse


Ab              C#m/Ab            A
i picked up the song and found my picture
       B         A
in the paper the reflection in the
Ab
water showed an
F#m
iron man still trying to salute
Fsus4          Bbm        A*
people from a time when he was
Absus4          G5
everything he's supposed to be

F#
Everything means nothing to me
F#
Everything means nothing to me
F#
Everything means nothing to me
F#
Everything means nothing to me

And that's it.

Lovely song, and somewhat easy once you get the chords down

Hope this helps

Cheers
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