Fighting For Nothing

When I was younger

I wish that I would have known better

Better love makes a fat romance

That 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 the cold war

With my arms out, in the front lines, singing, Dare me, dare me

But 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?

It feels like this world has been growing slowly upside down

Maybe I should move to China, and straighten this mess out

Maybe I'll be a poet

Watch all the sky for falling words

And 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

But 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?

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 you've been warring 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 accounted for

Pick and choose where your sweat and your blood will go

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

Run their spit through your hair, you're worth nothing, nothing

But 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?