Biography:
Ben Folds Five is a trio formed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States in 1994, who until their breakup in 2000 were a mainstay of Piano rock. Much of their work was influenced by jazz, evident in frequent improv-styled passages through bridge and/or ending.
The members of the band are Ben Folds, the lead singer and pianist, who also wrote most of the songs; Robert Sledge on bass; and Darren Jessee on drums. The group enjoyed the success of the single Brick in 1997
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Other songs:
- Brick
- Do It Anyway
- Draw A Crowd
- Fred Jones Part 2
- Landed
- Magic
- Not The Same
- The Luckiest
- Air
- Alice Childress
- Annie Waits
- Army
- Away When You Were Here
- Bad Idea
- Battle Of Who Could Care Less
- Best Imitation
- Bizarre Christmas Incident
- Boxing
- Cigarette
- Dont Change Your Plans
- Eddie Walker
- Emaline
- Erase Me
- Evaporated
- Fired
- Hold That Thought
- Hospital Song
- House
- Jackson Cannery
- Julianne
- Just Pretend
- Kate
- Leather Jacket
- Lonely Christmas Eve
- Luckiest
- Lullabye
- Mess
- Michael Praytor Five Years Later
- Missing The War
- Narcolepsy
- On Being Frank
- One Angry Dwarf And 200 Solemn Faces
- One Down
- Philosophy
- Rain Drops Keep Falling
- Red Is Blue
- Rockstar
- Selfless Cold And Composed
- She Dont Use Jelly
- Silver Street
- Sky High
- Smoke
- Song For The Dumped
- Stevens Last Night In Town
- Stumblin Home Winter Blues
- The Ascent Of Stan
- The Last Polka
- Twin Falls
- Underground
- Video
- War
- Wheres Summer B
- Your Redneck Past
- Youve Got To Learn To Live With What You Are
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Ben Folds Five — Sky High lyrics
::Intro::
Absus2 Eb/G Bbsus/F Eb
Absus2 Eb/G Eb/Bb Bb
Absus2 Eb/G Bbsus/D Eb
Absus2 Eb/G Eb/Bb Bb
::Verse::
Ab Eb
Shattered at dawn
Cm Gm
So far for so long
Bb Cm
Feeling newly baptized thinking
Ab Bb
I don't want this thing to end
All the blue sky
Ab/Eb Eb
Ab/Eb Eb
Ab/Eb Eb
::Verse::
Ab Eb
Where our stony paths meet
Cm Gm
Coffee color sheets
Bb Cm
Looking down at pale knees
Ab Bb
With a cigarette and the morning beat
Under the blue sky
Ab/Eb Eb
Ab/Eb Eb
Ab/Eb Eb
::B-Section::
Ab Eb
Last night at the bar
Ab Eb
I was wrong, I was only hurting
Ab Eb
And you were acting too polite
Cm
And we held on to the pain
Fm
Through the storms and the rain
Ab Bb
Like a crumpled, empty, discarded
Eb
Newports box
::C Section::
(Eb) Bb/D Cm Bb
Ab Bb Eb
Ahh, under the blue sky
(Eb) Bb/D Cm Bb
Ab Bb Eb
Ahh, sky high
(Eb) Bb/D Eb/G Ab
(Ab) Fm Bb
Ahh
::Verse::
Ab Eb
Pawn shop billboard
Cm Gm
"We Buy Gold"
Bb Cm
Old dreams just fade and twist
Ab Bb Eb/Bb Bb Eb/Bb
It's a heartache that never ended
::Verse::
Ab Eb
The brightness of air
Cm Gm Bb Cm
Out walking somewhere and when they ask you
Ab Bb
Just tell them that you knew me back when
Under the blue sky
::C Section::
Eb Bb/D Cm Bb
Ab Bb Eb
Ahh, sky high
(Eb) Bb/D Cm Bb
Ab Bb Eb
Ahh, put on the blue sky
(Eb) Bb/D Eb/G Ab
Ab Fm Bb
Ahh, sky high
::Outro::Repeat and Fade::
Absus2 Eb/G Bbsus/F Eb
Absus2 Eb/G Eb/Bb Bb
Absus2 Eb/G Bbsus/D Eb
Absus2 Eb/G Eb/Bb Bb
::Intro::
Absus2 Eb/G Bbsus/F Eb
Absus2 Eb/G Eb/Bb Bb
Absus2 Eb/G Bbsus/D Eb
Absus2 Eb/G Eb/Bb Bb
::Verse::
Ab Eb
Shattered at dawn
Cm Gm
So far for so long
Bb Cm
Feeling newly baptized thinking
Ab Bb
I don't want this thing to end
All the blue sky
Ab/Eb Eb
Ab/Eb Eb
Ab/Eb Eb
::Verse::
Ab Eb
Where our stony paths meet
Cm Gm
Coffee color sheets
Bb Cm
Looking down at pale knees
Ab Bb
With a cigarette and the morning beat
Under the blue sky
Ab/Eb Eb
Ab/Eb Eb
Ab/Eb Eb
::B-Section::
Ab Eb
Last night at the bar
Ab Eb
I was wrong, I was only hurting
Ab Eb
And you were acting too polite
Cm
And we held on to the pain
Fm
Through the storms and the rain
Ab Bb
Like a crumpled, empty, discarded
Eb
Newports box
::C Section::
(Eb) Bb/D Cm Bb
Ab Bb Eb
Ahh, under the blue sky
(Eb) Bb/D Cm Bb
Ab Bb Eb
Ahh, sky high
(Eb) Bb/D Eb/G Ab
(Ab) Fm Bb
Ahh
::Verse::
Ab Eb
Pawn shop billboard
Cm Gm
"We Buy Gold"
Bb Cm
Old dreams just fade and twist
Ab Bb Eb/Bb Bb Eb/Bb
It's a heartache that never ended
::Verse::
Ab Eb
The brightness of air
Cm Gm Bb Cm
Out walking somewhere and when they ask you
Ab Bb
Just tell them that you knew me back when
Under the blue sky
::C Section::
Eb Bb/D Cm Bb
Ab Bb Eb
Ahh, sky high
(Eb) Bb/D Cm Bb
Ab Bb Eb
Ahh, put on the blue sky
(Eb) Bb/D Eb/G Ab
Ab Fm Bb
Ahh, sky high
::Outro::Repeat and Fade::
Absus2 Eb/G Bbsus/F Eb
Absus2 Eb/G Eb/Bb Bb
Absus2 Eb/G Bbsus/D Eb
Absus2 Eb/G Eb/Bb Bb
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