Ben Folds Five – Hold That Thought (Guitar)

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From the album "The Sound of the Life of the Mind" INTRO: F#sus2maj7 VERSE:
F#                              B
She broke down and cried at the strip mall acupuncturist 

                           F#
While the world went on outside

    F#
The Chinese doctor took her arm

      B                                                       F#
Gazed at the floor, and read her wrist for the secrets in her mind
CHORUS:
 G#m
"Here's your medicine," she said

        B                              F#
"If you not smile at him, then someone else will" 

G#m                       
You hold that thought

    B                      F#
And I'll hold that thought too

C#    B     F#
Ooooooh - ooooh

C#    B     A     G
Ooooooh - ooooh
VERSE:
F#                 B
I was shown the 36 ways I'm not available 

                 F#
On a simple easy chart

F#                           B
Later on that evening on the beach in Santa Monica 

                    F#
It was a very risky start 
CHORUS:
   G#m
Suppose this stupid chart is right  

B                                 F#
In a year will you still feel the same way? 

      G#m                       
Well, you hold that thought

    B                      F#
And I'll hold that thought too

C#    B     F#
Ooooooh - ooooh

C#    B     A     G
Ooooooh - ooooh
INSTRUMENTAL: F#sus2maj7
F#sus4
Ah

C#
Ah 
VERSE:
                                  B
Did you ever see the film where a man who's given spectacles 

                         F#
That make the world look upside down?

   F#                            B
He falls about the place, but in time he somehow readjusts 

    G#m
And when they take the glasses off 

    B                              F#
The eyes he's always had see sky below him and he falls again 
CHORUS:
      G#m                       
Well, you hold that thought

    B                     
And I'll hold that thought

G#m                       
You hold that thought

    B                     
And I'll hold that thought

G#m                       
You hold that thought

    B                     
And I'll hold that thought
[bass notes under F#] F# G# A#
F# A# C#
repeat
OUTRO:
C#    B     A     G  F#maj7
Ooooooh - ooooh