Philosophy Chords

by Ben Folds Five
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Difficulty: advanced
Capo: no capo
Author Dan D [a] 30. Last edit on Feb 13, 2014

Chords

C
G/C
Am/C
Caug
C/D
G
F/G
F
G/E
F#
B
A
C#
D
Am
E
C/A
F/C
F/A#

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This is my first attempt at doing this, but I think it is accurate.  Enjoy, it's a fun song!
 
 
 
Intro pt1- C  G/C  Am/C  Caug  C/D  G  C/D  G (x2)
 
Intro pt2- G  F/G (x5)
 
 
 
[Verse 1]
           C              F
Won't you look up at the skyline 
 
        F                 G/E
At the mortar, block, and glass 
 
     F            F/F#              F/G      G
And check out the reflections in my eyes? 
 
             C              F
You see they always used to be there 
 
      C                G/E
Even when this all was grass 
 
      F               F/F#         F/G    G
And I sang and danced about a high-rise 
 
             F
And you were laughing at 
 
   G         (Bass)-  /C /B /A /G
My helmet hat, 
 
F
Laughing at 
 
   G  F/G (x2)
My torch 
 
 
 
[Chorus]
C                G/C               Am/C
Go ahead you can laugh all you want 
 
Caug /B     /C    /C#    C/D     G  C/D  G  C/D  G  C/D
I    got    my    phil - osophy 
 
      G                 C   G/C   Am/C
and I trust it like the ground 
 
Caug      /B      /C      /C#    C/D   G  C/D  G
that's    why     my      phil - osophy 
 
             C/D             G       G  F/G  G  F/G
it keeps me walking when I'm falling down 
 
 
 
[Verse 2]
  C                 F
I see that there is evil 
 
      C                  G/E
and I know that there is good 
 
        F             F/F#         F/G    G
and the in-betweens I never understood 
 
          C               F
won't you look at me, I'm crazy, 
 
      C           G/E
but I get the job done 
 
          F            F/F#         F/G    G
yeah, I'm crazy, but I get the job done 
 
 
and I say:
 
 
[Chorus]
 
 
[Bridge]
  Am             /E   Caug/A        /E
I pushed you 'cause I loved you guys 
 
  C/A    /E  F#dim7/A
I didn't realize 
 
/E          G          F/C  C  F/C  C
you weren't having fun 
 
      F
and I dragged you up the stairs 
 
      G
and I told you to fly 
 
          F
you were flapping your arms 
 
    G                        Am
you started to cry, you were too high 
 
    F/A#
no, too high 
 
 
[Intro pt1]
 
 
[Verse 3]
        C                 F
now you take this all for granted 
 
             C                  G/E
you take the mortar, block, and glass 
 
        F                     F/F#      F/G   G
and you forget the speech and moved the stone 
 
         C               F
but it's really not that you can't see 
 
    C              G/E
the forest for the trees 
 
    F              F/F#         F/G
you never been out in the woods alone 
 
 
[Chorus]
G                        C    G/C
So you can laugh all you want to
 
ect.
 
 
 
 
HUGE piano solo.
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5 comments
chrisdazzo
Most amazing thing to see live. Thank you.
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0olong
This is great, but you missed out the line 'keeps my feet on the ground'. To be fair, so many places on the internet miss that line that I had to listen to it to make sure I wasn't going mad. I guess the chords are just the ones that run over on the previous line, right?
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whats in a name
Can someone post the chord formations for the chords in this song?
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