WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Elliott Smith - Everything Means Nothing To Me Chords | Ver. 1
Elliott Smith – Everything Means Nothing To Me
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
Ab [466544]
C#m/Ab [446654]
A [577655]
B [799877]
F#m [244222]
Fsus4 [133311]
Bbm [x13321]
A* [x02220]
Absus4 [x46444]
G5 [3x0033]
F# [244322]
Verse
Ab C#m/Ab A
Someone found the future as a statue
B A
in a fountain at attention,
Ab F#m
looking backward in a pool of water
F#m
Wishes with a blue
Fsus4 Bbm
songbird on his shoulder
A* Absus4 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
Ab C#m/Ab A
i picked up the song and found my picture
B A
in the paper the reflection in the
Ab
water showed an
F#m
iron man still trying to salute
Fsus4 Bbm A*
people from a time when he was
Absus4 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
