Fighting For Nothing

When I was younger,

I wish that I would have known better

Better love makes a fat romance

Lasts for more than a shoe shine

I'm older, Took all the words of my mother

Saying it could be worse

Could be born with that disease

Instead of catching it first

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"

But I know that I was put here

To fight vikings in a cold war

With my arms out and fighting,

Dare me, dare me

Well these things take time, love

These things take backbone

And they'll tell you what you want to hear

Cause they think it's better, better

But you better know how

To point out the liars

You've got to weigh your wars

Make sure you're not fighting for nothing, nothing

Are you fighting for nothing, nothing?

It feels like this world has

Been growing slowly upside-down

Maybe I should move to China

Straighten this mess out

Maybe I'll be a poet

Watch all the sky for falling words

Write about my grandma's curtains

Or the lady who put the Chinese buffet in her purse..

I've got my mouth, it's a weapon

It's a bombshell, it's a cannon

I've got my words

I won't give them mercy, mercy

Well these things take time, love

These things take backbone

And they'll tell you what you want to hear

Cause they think it's better, better

But you better know how

To point out the liars

You're got to weigh your wars

Make sure you're not fighting for nothing, nothing

Are you fighting for nothing, nothing?

I've got my words, I hope they hurt you

I hope they scar you, I hope they heal you...

I hope they cut you open, make you see all the war 'n

For all the wrong reasons, make you see that some things

Are worth bruising for

Make you see that your name is your honor code

Make you see that your hands you're uncaren for

They can choose where your sweat and your blood will go

Make you see your life's not to be lived alone

Run a split through your head

You're worth nothing, nothing

Well these things take time, love

These things take backbone

And we'll tell you what you want to hear

Cause they think it's better, better

But you better know how

To point out the liars

You're got to weigh your wars

Make sure you're not fighting for nothing, nothing

Well these things take time

These things take backbone

And they'll tell you what you want to hear

Cause they think it's better, better

But you better know how

To point out the liars

You've got to weigh your wars

Make sure you're not fighting for nothing, nothing

I'm fighting for nothing, nothing..