Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
based on this cover here: https://youtu.be/-UxiUOoqD6w
Verse 1:
A minorAm
Little boy blue, don't you play too rough with your new toy
If you touch her, she'll break and her blood is so annoying
FF E MajorE
Don't you like to watch, much like a
A minorAm
shadow lost in the shade?
FF E MajorE
Make her, you'll unmake her, but you'd rather be unmade
FF E MajorE A minorAm
(Oh) It's not my place to interfere, my dear
FF E MajorE A minorAm
(Oh, no) Will you embrace me and erase my fear?
FF E MajorE A minorAm
(Woah) Wipe me out like a stain, with a
G+G E MajorE
grin I will hang from your string
FF E MajorE
And by your judgment of my merit I'll
A minorAm
inherit nothing
Chorus:
FF
Nothing is what I deserve
A minorAm G+G
Nothing is what I have earned
FF E MajorE
If nothing is what you have chosen to give me
FF G+G
Then nothing is for what I yearn
FF E MajorE
Nothing lasts forever, nothing really matters
FF E MajorE
Nothing never breaks, busts, bends,
A minorAm
rusts, upends or shatters
Verse 2:
A minorAm
I've never had a weakness that couldn't be destroyed
And I've never had a sinful thought that couldn't be avoided
FF E MajorE
Control your temper, control your
A minorAm
language, or anguish in languid soul
FF E MajorE
It's what you were born to do, but you'd rather be controlled
FF E MajorE A minorAm
(Oh) I just presumed that you'd refuse me
FF E MajorE A minorAm
(Oh, no) Excuse this common fool his crudity
FF E MajorE A minorAm
(Woah) Break this wild horse, I will
G. E MajorE
not fight, 'cause of course I would win (Of course I would win)
FF
And I'd much rather give in and bear it
E MajorE A minorAm
all 'till I inherit nothing
Chorus:
FF E MajorE
Nothing is what I deserve
A minorAm G+G
Nothing is what I have earned
FF E MajorE
If nothing is what you have chosen to give me
FF G+G
Then nothing is for what I yearn
FF E MajorE A minorAm
Nothing lasts forever, nothing really
G+G
matters
FF E MajorE
Nothing never breaks, busts, bends,
A minorAm
rusts, upends or shatters
Bridge: (not sure about this part)
A minorAm
I must obey the order, for I've order to restore
Each circuit sends a signal to the process in the core
FF E MajorE
And if none of this means anything then what's my anger for?
FF E MajorE
I'd rather be most anything, the dirt under your heel my king
FF E MajorE
A augmentedA peasant or a pauper, or a knight in shining armor
A minorAm
What's required of your noble steed?
FF E MajorE
Through your direction I am freed
A minorAm G+G
And neigh I say! I won't stand in the
E MajorE
way of what you have decreed, for—
Chorus:
FF
Nothing is what I deserve
A minorAm G+G
Nothing is what I have earned
FF E MajorE
If nothing is what you have chosen to give me
FF G+G
Then nothing is for what I yearn
FF E MajorE
Nothing lasts forever, nothing really matters
FF E MajorE
Nothing never breaks, busts, bends,
A minorAm
rusts, upends or shatters