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Philosophy Tab

by Ben Folds Five


This is my first attempt at doing this, but I think it is accurate.  Enjoy, it's a fun song!



Intro pt1-                (x2)

Intro pt2-    (x5)



[Verse 1]
                         
Won't you look up at the skyline 

                         
At the mortar, block, and glass 

                 /                    
And check out the reflections in my eyes? 

                           
You see they always used to be there 

                      
Even when this all was grass 

                     /             
And I sang and danced about a high-rise 

             
And you were laughing at 

            (Bass)-  / / / /
My helmet hat, 


Laughing at 

      (x2) 
My torch 



[Chorus]
                               
Go ahead you can laugh all you want 

 /     /    /                   /                    
I    got    my    phil - osophy 

                             
and I trust it like the ground 

      /      /      /           
that's    why     my      phil - osophy 

                                   /        
it keeps me walking when I'm falling down 



[Verse 2]
                   
I see that there is evil 

                        
and I know that there is good 

                     /             
and the in-betweens I never understood 

                         
won't you look at me, I'm crazy, 

                 
but I get the job done 

                      /             
yeah, I'm crazy, but I get the job done 


and I say: 


[Chorus]


[Bridge] 
               /   /        /
I pushed you 'cause I loved you guys 

      /  F#dim7/
I didn't realize 

/                          
you weren't having fun 

      
and I dragged you up the stairs 

      
and I told you to fly 

          
you were flapping your arms 

                            
you started to cry, you were too high 

    
no, too high 


[Intro pt1]


[Verse 3]
                         
now you take this all for granted 

                               
you take the mortar, block, and glass 

                             /         
and you forget the speech and moved the stone 

                        
but it's really not that you can't see 

                  
the forest for the trees 

                  /         
you never been out in the woods alone 


[Chorus]
                            
So you can laugh all you want to

ect.




HUGE piano solo.