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Carrying Cathy Tab

by Ben Folds Five


...CARRYING CATHY... by Ben Folds
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*from 'Rockin' The Suburbs' (2001)*


*CAPO 4th FRET*

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Intro:

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Verse 1:

               
 Her window was hung like a painting,
                          
She worried it might come to life.
               
 She stared for hours.

                   
 So obsessed was I, and self-absorbed that I,
                        
 Didn't see that she was,     cry-ing.

Chorus 1:

                       
There was always someone carrying,
                       
There was always someone carrying,
                        
 Always someone's carrying Cathy.

Interlude:

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Verse 2:

                          
 There were times when I'd find myself saying that;
                  
 "Friends, you don't understand",
                              
And she's different, when it's just me and her.

                           
And I closed the door and I tried to hang on,
                                     
And she sank into the dark. I was over my head.

Chorus 2:

                       
There was always someone carrying,
                       
There was always someone carrying,
                        
 Always someone's carrying Cathy.

Interlude:

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Bridge 1:

                                      
We gave you everything; you could have been anything.
                                      
We gave you everything; you could have done anything.

                                        
But to i-magine a fall, with no one at  all to catch you.

Chorus 3:

                            
There'd always been someone...

    

                           
 Then one night, she climbed into the picture frame.
                                   
 Out in the frozen air, and out, of sight.

Verse 3:

                       
 Woke up sad from this dream I've been having,
                           
The last couple nights or so.

                                   
With her father and brothers, we're all at the funeral,
                         
 Carrying a box through the rain.
                            
Then somebody says that it's always been this way.

Chorus 4:

                       
There was always someone carrying,
                       
There was always someone carrying,
                
 Always someone's carrying...
                           
 Always someone's carrying... Cathy.

Outro:

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