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...