Me and Mia

by Ted Leo

As I was walking through a life one morning

The sun was out, the air was warm

But oh, I was cold

And though I must have looked a half a person

To tell the tale in my own version

It was only then that I felt whole

/ C - / D - / A F / :

Do you believe in something beautiful?

Then get up and be it!

/ G - Dm - / F - /

    {refrain}

    Fighting for the smallest goal to

    Get a little self control

    I know how hard you try, I see it in your eyes

    Call your friends because we've forgotten

    What it's like to eat what's rotten

    And what's eating you alive, might help you to survive

    / C - / Dm - / Am - Dm - / Am - / Dm - / Am - Dm - /

We went on, as we were on a mission

Latest in a grand tradition

Oh, what did we find?

It was Ego who was flying the banner

But Me and Mia, Ann and Ana

Oh, we'd been unkind

Do you believe in something beautiful?

Then, get up and be it!

    {refrain}

{bridge}

Even the nights they could get better

And even the days ain't all that bad

And after a week of fighting, as more and more it seems the right thing

/ F Em Dm Am / / /

Do you believe in something beautiful?

Then get up and be it!

    Fighting for the smallest goal to

    Get a little self control

    Won't anybody here, just let you disappear

    Now, doctors know your mom and dad

    But me and Mia, Ann and Ana

    Know how hard you try, don't you see it in my eyes?

    Sick to death of my dependence

    Fighting food to find transcendence

    Fighting to survive, more dead, but more alive

    Cigarettes and speed for living

    Sleeping pills to feel forgiven

    All that you can try, and all that you're deprived

    What a bourgeois social angel!

    Telling you you've got to change

    Don't have any idea, they'll never see so clear

    But don't forget what it really means to

    Hunger strike, when you don't really need to

    Some are dying for a cause, but that don't make it yours

{as bridge}

And even the nights they could get better...