Ben Folds Five – Smoke (Guitar)

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Surprised no one took the time to try this one yet. Here's my best translation. Any corrections are welcome! In the meantime... enjoy! -e_b
[Intro]
   F/C, F5/C, G, Em7, F 
e|--1---------3----------|
B|--1-----1---3---3---1--|
G|--2-----2-----------2--|
D|--3-----3-------2---3--|
A|--3-----3---2---2---3--|
E|------------3-------1--|

   F/C, F5/C,  G, Em7
e|--1----------3------|
B|--1-----1----3---3--|
G|--2-----2-----------|
D|--3-----3--------2--|
A|--3-----3----2---2--|
E|-------------3------|

  F/C, F5/C, G, Em7, F
e|--1--------3----------|
B|--1----1---3---3---1--|
G|--2----2-----------2--|
D|--3----3-------2---3--|
A|--3----3---2---2---3--|
E|-----------3-------1--|

    F, G
e|--------|
B|--------|
G|--2/-4--|
D|--3/-5--|
A|--3/-5--|
E|--1/-3--|
[Verse 1]
F       G    Em7     F
Leaf by Leaf page by page

F          G      Em7  F
Throw this book away

F       G       Em7     F
All the sadness all the rage

F          G      Em7  F
Throw this book away

F           G        Em7      F
Rip out the binding, tear the glue

F          G        Em7   F    F 
All of the grief we never even knew

   G      Em7 F
We had it all along

F   G   N.C.
Now its smoke
[Intro] F/C, F5/C, G, Em7, F F/C, F5/C, G, Em7 F/C, F5/C, G, Em7, F F, G [Verse 2]
F          G     Em7     F
The things we've written in it

F            G         Em7  F
Never really happened

F       G            Em7     F
All the things we've written in it

F            G         Em7  F
Never really happened

F          G      Em7      F
All of the people come and gone

F            G
Never really lived

Em7     F                F         G
All the people that have come have gone

Em7 F         G    N.C. 
No  one to forgive smoke
F/C, F5/C, G, Em7, F, F/C, F5/C, G, Em7,
Bass line
e|---------|
B|---------|
G|---------|
D|---------|
A|--3-2----|
E|------3--|

[Chorus]
    C      Am7              Em7  F
e|----------------------------------|
B|--5-------1----------------3---1--|
G|--5----------------------------2--|
D|--5-------2----------------2---3--|
A|--3------------------------2---3--|
E|-------------------------------1--|
    We will not write a new one

C          Am7
There will not be a new one

   G6    F5     G6    F5
e|--------------------------|
B|--------------------------|
G|-------(2)----------(2)---|
D|--------3------------3----|
A|--2-----3------2-----3----|
E|--3-----1------3-----1----|
  Another one, another one
[Verse 3]
F         G       Em7       F
Here's an evening dark with shame

 F        G      Em7  F
(Throw it on the fire)

F          G      Em7      F
Here's the time I took the blame

 F        G      Em7  F
(Throw it on the fire)

F           G              Em7
Here is the time we didn't speak

              F
it seemed for years and years

F        G
Here's a secret

   Em7      F    
No one will ever know the

G       Em7     F 
reasons for the tears

F    G           [Bass Riff] 
         e|------------------------|  
         B|------------------------|  
         G|-------------------0h2--|  
         D|------------0h1h2h3-----|  
         A|-------0h2h3------------|  
         E|--0h2h3-----------------|  
They are                 smoke
F G [Bass Riff] smoke
F    G  N.C.  F
        smoke
[Chorus]
C       Am7              Em7  F
We will not write a new one

C          Am7
There will not be a new one

G6      F    G6      F
Another one, another one
F, G, Em7, F [2x] [Verse 4]
F        G       Em7     F
Where do all the secrets live

F           G      Em7  F
They travel in the air

F       G          Em7       F
You can smell them when they burn

F         G   Em7  F
They (travel)

F         G       Em7         F
Those who say the past is not dead can

F        G           Em7  F
Stop and smell the smoke

F        G          Em7         F
You keep saying the past is not dead well

 F        G           Em7  F
 Stop and smell the smoke
(You keep saying)
 F           G          Em7         F
 You keep on saying the past is not even past and
(You keep saying)
 F        G     Em7  F
 You keep saying
(You keep sayiing) F G [Bass Riff] We are smoke F G [Bass Riff] smoke
F  G    [Bass line]    F Em7   F  G
    e|--------------------7----8--10--|
    B|--------------------8---10--12--|
    G|-----------------2--7---10--12--|
    D|--/7-5-----------3--9---10--12--|
    A|-------8-/7-5-3--3--7----8--10--|
    E|-----------------1--------------|
         smoke
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