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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# [466544]
C#m/G# [446654]
A [577655]
B [799877]
F#m [244222]
Fsus4 [133311]
Bbm [x13321]
A [x02220]
G#sus4 [x46444]
G5 [3x0033]
F# [244322]
Verse
[G#]Someone found the [C#m/G#]future as a [A]statue
in a [B]fountain at [A]attention,
[G#]looking backward in a [F#m]pool of water
[F#m]Wishes with a blue
[Fsus4]songbird on his [Bbm]shoulder
A G#sus4 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
[G#]i picked up the [C#m/G#]song and found my [A]picture
in the [B]paper the [A]reflection in the
[G#]water showed an
[F#m]iron man still trying to salute
Fsus Bbm A
people from a time when he was
[G#sus4]everything he's [G5]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
