Battles chords by Emily West

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse 1:
A augmentedA
Joseph's really smart

He's good and he's got heart
                    E MajorE
His eyes are big and his bones are thin
  B minorBm
He never has new clothes
   E MajorE                  A augmentedA  A7A7
He works a job that knows is killing him


Hook:
D MajorD       E MajorE        A augmentedA         D MajorD
Found out on a Sunday that he's going to lose his home
A augmentedA           E MajorE        A augmentedA  E MajorE
Everyone is fighting a battle of their own

Verse 2:
A augmentedA
Remy is a child

The teacher's say he's wise
   B minorBm          Bm7Bm7
They keep him on a kind of medicine
  E MajorE
Now he don't run around
B minorBm          E MajorE     A augmentedA
His ears are to the ground, listening


Hook:
D MajorD         E MajorE        A augmentedA        D MajorD
He might have been Mozart, but they turned him into stone
A augmentedA           E MajorE        B7B7   E minorEm  C majorC  G+G  FF  C majorC  E MajorE  E7E7
Everyone is fighting a battle of their own


Verse 3:
A augmentedA
Michael's full of doubt

The pout is coming out
                  E MajorE
His father and his friends would be ashamed
  B minorBm
He talks to God at night
  E MajorE               A augmentedA
"If I ain't right, why'd you make me in this way?"


Hook:
D MajorD          E MajorE       A augmentedA      B7B7
He's been taught to hate the only 'M' he's ever known
D MajorD           E MajorE
Everyone is fighting a battle
D MajorD           E MajorE
Everyone is fighting a battle
Bm7Bm7          E MajorE        A augmentedA
Everyone is fighting a battle of their own