Meg & Dia - Fighting For Nothing lyrics

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When I was younger, I wish that I would have known better.<br>

Better love makes a fat romance, that lasts for more than a shoe shine.<br>

I’m older, took all the words of my mother, saying,<br>

It could be worse, could be born with that disease, instead of catching it first.<br>

So let’s go back, to the first time, that I met you, in your Chevy, with your hands stretched, and me crying, screaming, “Mercy. Mercy.”<br>

But I know that, I was put here, to fight Vikings, in the cold war, with my arms out, in the front lines, singing, “Dare me. Dare me.”<br>

But these things take time love.<br>

These things take backbone.<br>

And they’ll tell you what you want to hear ’cause they think it’s better. Better.<br>

But you better know how to point out the liars.<br>

You’ve got to weigh your wars make sure you’re not fighting for nothing. Nothing.<br>

Are you fighting for nothing?<br>

It feels like this world has been growing slowly upside down.<br>

Maybe I should move to China, and straighten this mess out.<br>

Maybe I’ll be a poet.<br>

Watch all the sky for falling words.<br>

And write about my grandma’s curtains, or the lady who put the Chinese buffet in her purse.<br>

I’ve got my mouth.<br>

It’s a weapon. It’s a bombshell. It’s a cannon. I’ve got my words.<br>

I won’t give them mercy. Mercy. I’ve got my words. I hope they hurt you.<br>

I hope they scar you. I hope they heal you.<br>

I hope they cut you open, make you see you’ve been warring for all the wrong reasons.<br>

Make you see that some things are worth bruising for.<br>

Make you see that your name is your honor code.<br>

Make you see that your hands you’re accounted for.<br>

Pick and choose where your sweat and your blood will go.<br>

Make you see your life’s not to be lived alone.<br>

Run their spit through your hair, you’re worth nothing. Nothing.<br>

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<i>[Thanks to Erica for these lyrics]</i><br>

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