• 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

G# (xx1114@1)[466544]
C#m/G#	[446654]
A (x02220@1)[577655]
B (x2444x@1)[799877]
F#m (244222@1)[244222]
Fsus4 (113311@1)[133311]
Bbm (x13321@1)[x13321]
A*		[x02220]
G#sus4[x46444] (xx1124@1)G5 (355xxx@1)[3x0033]
F# (244322@1)[244322]

Verse

G# (xx1114@1)              C#m/G#      ASomeone (x02220@1)found the future as a statue
     B (x2444x@1)         Ain (x02220@1)a fountain at attention,
G# (xx1114@1)                  F#mlooking (244222@1)backward in a pool of water
F#mWishes (244222@1)with a blue
Fsus4 (113311@1)         Bbmsongbird (x13321@1)on his shoulder
A*         G#sus4 (xx1124@1)     G5Who (355xxx@1)keeps singing over everything

Chorus

F#Everything (244322@1)means nothing to me
F#Everything (244322@1)means nothing to me
F#Everything (244322@1)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


G# (xx1114@1)            C#m/G#            Ai (x02220@1)picked up the song and found my picture
       B (x2444x@1)       Ain (x02220@1)the paper the reflection in the
G#water (xx1114@1)showed an
F#miron (244222@1)man still trying to salute
Fsus (113311@1)        Bbm (x13321@1)      A*
people from a time when he was
G#sus4 (xx1124@1)        G5everything (355xxx@1)he's supposed to be

F#Everything (244322@1)means nothing to me
F#Everything (244322@1)means nothing to me
F#Everything (244322@1)means nothing to me
F#Everything (244322@1)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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