Meat
"Better than nothing"
music by Gilbert Lopez, Omar Garcia and Rudy Tamayo
Lyrics by Rudy Tamayo



Standard Dropped D—Tuning

  Bass fill opens with drums
Intro  (Often improvised)
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Main Verse Bass line/end riff
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Chorus Riff 3x  Chorus Pt. 2 1x
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Bridge Riff
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Part of insanity
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Lyrics:
(Verse 1)
Sitting on top of the world 
Looking down and seeing nothing
Walked away from this crash
Thinking everything was something
Then I realized what went wrong as I sat and wrote this song
As you sat and watched the whole thing fall apart and burn

(Chorus)
But it's all right! I'm all right!
It's all right! We're all right!
'cause something's better than nothing
When that nothing's better than something said
And nothing's better than something
When that something's bleeding nothing dead

(Verse 2)
Sit and wait my turn
waiting here for all or nothing
But never mind what they say
They don't stand for something
Then you realized what went wrong and refused to move along
As we sat and set the whole off to fall apart and burn

(Chorus)
But it's all right! I'm all right!
It's all right! We're all right!
'cause something's better than nothing
When that nothing's better than something said
And nothing's better than something
When that something's bleeding nothing dead

(Bridge)
No need to get upset
Act like we never met
Don't think I know it all
But you have to rise before you fall

(Verse 3)
Feeling self assured
Caution lights fall far from nothing
But can I make this whole thing work
Can I make it into something
That's when it all went wrong, and you refused this song
And we all just sat back to watch the whole thing fall apart and burn

(end)
***ting on the world!