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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Artist: Ben Folds Five
Song: Magic
Album: The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
Transcribed by: David Podradchik
Chords used:
Dm C F Bb F#dim
|--1------0------1------1-------2------------------------|
|--3------1------1------3-------1------------------------|
|--2------0------2------3-------2------------------------|
|--0------2------3------3-------1------------------------|
|---------3------3------1--------------------------------|
|----------------1---------------------------------------|
Dm C F
From the back of your big brown eyes
Dm C F Bb C
I knew you'd be gone as soon as you could
F Bb C
And I hoped you would
Dm C F
We could see that you weren't yourself
Dm C F
And the lines on your face did tell
Bb C
It's just as well
F Bb C F F#dim
You'd never be yourself again
Bb
Saw you last night
C F F#dim
Dance by the light of the moon
Bb
Stars in your eyes
C Dm
Free from the life that you knew
Dm C F
Dm C F Bb C
F Bb C
Dm C F Bb C
You're the magic that holds the sky up from the ground
Dm C F Bb C
You're the breath that blows these cool winds 'round
Dm C F Bb C
Trading places with an angel now
F F#dim
Bb
Saw you last night
C F F#dim
Dance by the light of the moon
Bb
Stars in your eyes
C F F#dim
Free from the life that you knew
Bb
Saw you last night
C
Stars in your eyes
Dm
Smiled in my room
Dm C F
Dm C F Bb C
F Bb C(let ring)
Song: Magic
Album: The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
Transcribed by: David Podradchik
Chords used:
Dm C F Bb F#dim
|--1------0------1------1-------2------------------------|
|--3------1------1------3-------1------------------------|
|--2------0------2------3-------2------------------------|
|--0------2------3------3-------1------------------------|
|---------3------3------1--------------------------------|
|----------------1---------------------------------------|
Dm C F
From the back of your big brown eyes
Dm C F Bb C
I knew you'd be gone as soon as you could
F Bb C
And I hoped you would
Dm C F
We could see that you weren't yourself
Dm C F
And the lines on your face did tell
Bb C
It's just as well
F Bb C F F#dim
You'd never be yourself again
Bb
Saw you last night
C F F#dim
Dance by the light of the moon
Bb
Stars in your eyes
C Dm
Free from the life that you knew
Dm C F
Dm C F Bb C
F Bb C
Dm C F Bb C
You're the magic that holds the sky up from the ground
Dm C F Bb C
You're the breath that blows these cool winds 'round
Dm C F Bb C
Trading places with an angel now
F F#dim
Bb
Saw you last night
C F F#dim
Dance by the light of the moon
Bb
Stars in your eyes
C F F#dim
Free from the life that you knew
Bb
Saw you last night
C
Stars in your eyes
Dm
Smiled in my room
Dm C F
Dm C F Bb C
F Bb C(let ring)
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