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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]
F#dim7 [2x1212]
F [133211]
Bbm [x13321]
F/A [x03211]
Db/Ab [446664]
Gm7(b5) [3x3321]
F# [244322]
D#m [x68876]
C# [x46664]
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#dim7
Wishes with a blue
F Bbm
songbird on his shoulder
F/A Db/Ab Gm7(b5)
Who keeps singing over everything
Chorus
F#
Everything means nothing to me
F#
Everything means nothing to me
F# F7
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|---------1-2-4-6---------------------------1-2-4-6-------------------------|
B|---1-2-4-----------------------------1-2-4-2-4-6-7-------------------------|
G|-3----------------------OR---------3---3-5---------------------------------|
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 F#dim7
iron man still trying to salute
F Bbm F/A
people from a time when he was
Db/Ab Gm7(b5)
everything he's supposed to be
F#
Everything means nothing to me
F#
Everything means nothing to me
D#m
Everything means nothing to me
F#
Everything means nothing to me
D#m
Everything means nothing to me
C#
Everything means nothing to me
And that's it.
Lovely song, and somewhat easy once you get the chords down
Hope this helps
Cheers
