Everything Means Nothing to Me
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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
466544
G#
446654
C#m/G#
577655
A
799877
B
244222
F#m
133311
Fsus4
x13321
Bbm
x02220
A*
x46444
G#sus4
3x0033
G5
244322
F#
Verse
G# C#m/G# A
Someone found the future as a statue
B A
in a fountain at attention,
G# F#m
looking backward in a pool of water
F#m
Wishes with a blue
Fsus4 Bbm
songbird on his 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# C#m/G# A
i picked up the song and found my picture
B A
in the paper the 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 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