Ben Folds Five – The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind (Guitar)

Bb                         C              Dm
Apehead's brother wants to beat up Paul

     C/E             Bb       C
The boys have gone to watch

Bb                      C            Dm
Some of the girls are down at the mall

C/E                  Bb   C
Justine's got cherry cola and scotch

Bb                        C             Dm
Later on it's everyone 'round to Bec's

   C/E                       Bb      C
Her parents are away in New York

Bb                    C
But Sara, well, she just can't bear

    Dm                               C/E
The stupidity, the boredom, the grind

     Bb                     C
She stays at school so that she can hear

      Dm          C/E       Bb
The sound of the life of the mind

         Eb          F
And it's noisy out there

   Dm              Gm Gm/F
It rocks me like a mother

Eb              F
Rosa Parks and DNA

Ebmaj7           F5 Fsus4
Joan of Arc and JFK

F        Eb        F
But it's noisy up there

   Dm              Gm F
It rocks me like a mother

Bb       Csus
Oh, ohh, oh, ohh

Dm         C/E
Oh, oh, oh

Bb      C
Oh, oh, oh

      Bb                        C           Dm
She's cut 'em all out of her social circle

C/E                     Bbsus2  Csus2
Won't introduce them to Lincoln or Frost

         Bb                         C              Dm
Doesn't want to let them get to know Keats or Studs Terkel

     C/E                 Bb5       C
They'll never know what they have lost

    Bb                C
But Sara, well, she just can't bear

       Dm                             C/E
The stupidity, the boredom, the grind

    Bbmaj7                   C
She stays at school so that she can hear

     Dm           C/E        Bbmaj7
The sound of the life of the mind

         Eb             F
And it's noisy out there

    Dm             Gm F
It rocks me like a mother

  Eb             F
Copernicus and Fortune's Wheel

Ebmaj7                F5   Fsus    F
Plato, Glenn Gould and the New Deal

         Eb         F
And it's noisy up there

Dm                 Gm   F  C/E
It rocks me like a mother

                  Ebmaj13                  C/E
Sara already knows pretty soon she'll be leaving

                       Ebmaj13
Once she's hoovered up whatever she can find

                    C/E
She doesn't want to hear about

               Ebmaj13                      C/E
Pregnancies, phone fights, TV, take-outs, half-sex, weddings

     Ebmaj13                          C
The sound of the life she'll leave behind

Ebmaj7                      F
Yeah, it's noisy out there

   Dm7             Gm7 F6
It rocks me like a mother

Ebmaj7   F
Oh, ohh, oh, ohh

Dm7        Ebmaj7
Oh, oh, oh

         Ebmaj7         F
And it's noisy out there

   Dm7             Gm Gm/F
It rocks me like a mother

Ebmaj7   F6
Oh, ohh, oh, ohh

Dm7     Ebmaj7
Oh, oh, oh