Chords for Ted Leo performs "Me and Mia" at Generation Records In-Store (NYC)

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_ _ _ _ _ As I was walking through a life of [Dm] mourning, summers out, [C] the air was warm, but oh, oh, oh, [A] I was cold
_ No, [C] I must have looked a half a person, a tell-tale in my own fashion
It [Am] was only then that I felt [Dm] whole _ _ _
[G] _ Do you believe in [D] something beautiful and get up and [C] be it?
Fighting for the smallest goal [Dm] to get a little self [Am]-control
I know how hard to try, [Dm] I see it in your [Am] eyes
Call your friends, cause we have [Dm] forgotten what it's like to eat [Am] what's rotten and what's eating you alive
[Dm] Might have it to survive, [Em] yet, [C]
honest, we were on a mission
Ladies did a grand [Em] tradition, no, oh, [A] oh, oh, what did [D] we find?
_ It [C] was ego who was flying the banner, me and me, young and [Am] in it, oh, oh, [A] oh, we've been [Dm] unkind _ _ _
[G] Do you believe in something [D] beautiful and [F] get up and [C] be it?
Fighting for the smallest [Dm] goal to get a little self-control
[A] I see it in your eyes, I see it in your spine
[Am] Call your friends, cause we have forgotten [Dm] what it's like to eat what's [A] rotten and what's eating you alive
[Dm] Might have it to survive, [F] and even [E] the nights they [Am] could get better _ _
_ [F] _ Even the days ain't all [A] that bad
And _ _ [F] _ after a week of [A] fighting, more and more it seems the right [G] thing
Do you believe in [D] something beautiful and [F] get up and be it?
[C] Fighting for the smallest goal [D] to gain a little self [A]-control
Won't anybody here [D] just let you disappear?
[Am] Now, doctors know your mom and dad, [D] but me and me, you ain't none [A] of that
I know how hard you try, [Em] [Dm] don't you see it in my [C] eyes?
Sick to death of my [Dm] dependence, fighting food to find [A] transcendence
Fighting to survive, [Dm] more dead but more alive
_ [Am] _ Cigarettes are sweet for living, [A]
sleeping [Dm] pills to feel forgiven
All that you can try, [Dm] I don't know that you'll be blind
I'm [C] trying to push my social [Dm] age up, trying to make a [A] change
Don't have any idea, [Dm] they'll never see so clear
[C] But don't forget what it really [D] means to hug and strike
When you don't really need [A] to, some are dying for a cause
But that don't make it [F] yours, and [Em] even the nights they could [Am] get better
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_ [C] Thanks _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] I try to do that a little more tenderoni than usual _
[B] _ Maybe I don't have it worked out _ _ _
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