Emily West – Battles chords

[Verse 1]
AJoseph's really smart

He's good and he's got heart
                                       EHis eyes are big and his bones are thin
   BmHe never has new clothes
     E                                   A   A7He works a job that knows is killing him


[Hook]
D              E                A                 DFound out on a Sunday that he's going to lose his home
A                      E               A    EEveryone is fighting a battle of their own


[Verse 2]
ARemy is a child

The teacher's say he's wise
     Bm                    Bm7They keep him on a kind of medicine
    ENow he don't run around
Bm                    E          AHis ears are to the ground, listening


[Hook]
D                  E                A               DHe might have been Mozart, but they turned him into stone
A                      E               B7     Em    C    G    F   C   E   E7Everyone is fighting a battle of their own


[Verse 3]
AMichael's full of doubt

The pout is coming out
                                    EHis father and his friends would be ashamed
   BmHe talks to God at night
    E                             A"If I ain't right, why'd you make me in this way?"


[Hook]
D                   E              A            B7He's been taught to hate the only 'M' he's ever known
D                      EEveryone is fighting a battle
D                      EEveryone is fighting a battle
Bm7                    E               AEveryone is fighting a battle of their own