• Song:

    Fighting For Nothing

  • Artist:

    Meg And Dia

Here is meg's part of the song. I used this youtube video to get the chords, so it should be fine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i00sFWahcIc

Verse 1
F#                                                 B
When I was younger, I wish that I would have known better.
                                                            F#
Better love makes a fat romance, that lasts for more than a shoe shine.
                                    B
I?m older, took all the words of my mother, saying,
It could be worse, could be born with that disease, instead of catching it first.
Ebm                                  C#5                            B5         
So let?s go back, to the first time, that I met you, in your Chevy, with your hands stretched,
 and me 
                    C#5
crying, screaming, ?Mercy. Mercy.?
Ebm                                       C#5                       B5
But I know that, I was put here, to fight Vikings, in the cold war, with my arms out,
 in the front 
                 C#5
lines, singing, ?Dare me. Dare me.?

[Chorus]
B
But these things take time love.
F#
These things take backbone.
Ebm                                                               C#5
And they?ll tell you what you want to hear ?cause they think it?s better. Better.
B                       F#
But you better know how to point out the liars.
Ebm                                                             C#5
You?ve got to weigh your wars make sure you?re not fighting for nothing. Nothing.
                     B5
Are you fighting for nothing?

Verse 2
F#                                               B
It feels like this world has been growing slowly upside down.
Maybe I should move to China, and straighten this mess out.
                F#
Maybe I?ll be a poet.
                      B
Watch all the sky for falling words.
And write about my grandma?s curtains, or the lady who put the Chinese buffet in her purse.
Ebm                               C#5         
I?ve got my mouth. It?s a weapon. It?s a bombshell. 
               B5
It?s a cannon. I?ve got my words.
                  C#5
I won?t give them mercy. Mercy. 

[Chorus]

Solo: 
Ebm  C#5  B5 C#5 (x2)

Bridge
Ebm                C#5
I?ve got my words. I hope they hurt you.
B5
I hope they scar you. I hope they heal you.
Ebm                                                        C#5
I hope they cut you open, make you see you?ve been warring for all the wrong reasons.
                                  B5
Make you see that some things are worth bruising for.
                                    C#5
Make you see that your name is your honor code.
                                    Ebm
Make you see that your hands you?re accounted for.
                                          C#5
Pick and choose where your sweat and your blood will go.
                                   B5
Make you see your life?s not to be lived alone.
                                               C#5
Run their spit through your hair, you?re worth nothing. Nothing.

[chorus]
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