Ben Folds – From Above (Guitar)

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This tab was partly based on the following clip of a live performance: *** D*: e | 0 B | 3 G | 0 D | 4 A | 5 E | x *** Intro: Em-D*-Em-D* VERSE 1:

C
They even looked at each other once

         D*
Across a crowded bar

Bm
He was with Martha

Em
She with Tom

        C
Neither of them really knew

         D*
What was going on

                     Bm
Strange feeling of never

                    Em
Heartbeats becoming synchronized

                        C
Staying that way forever

                     D* 
But most of the time

It was just near misses

          Bm
Air kisses

Once in a book store

               Em
Once at a party

                             C
She came in as he was leaving

                          D*
And years ago at the movies

                  Bm
She sat behind him

Six thirty showing

    Em
Of While You Were Sleeping

C
Never once looked around

CHORUS: Em-G-C-Am It's so easy from above You can't really see it all People who belong together Lost and sad and small But there's nothing to be done for them It doesn't work that way Sure we all have soulmates but we walk Past them every day Oh no C-D*-Bm-Em VERSE 2: C-D*-Bm-Em And it's not like they were actually ever unhappy in the lives they lived He married Martha She married Tom Just this vague notion that something was wrong An ache, an absence, a phantom limb

                                     C
An itch that could never be scratched

cHORUS Em-G-C-Am It's so easy from above You can't really see it all People who belong together Lost and sad and small But there's nothing to be done for them It doesn't work that way Sure we all have soulmates but we walk Past them every day Oh no C-D*-Bm-Em BRIDGE

G                             Bm
Neither of them knew what was going on

C
The strange feeling of never

                                Cm
Heartbeats becoming synchronised

                       Em
Staying that way forever

INTERLUDE: Em-G-C-Am VERSE 3 C-D*-Bm-Em And who knows whether that's how it should be Maybe a ghost lives in that vacancy Maybe that's how books get written Maybe that's why songs get sung Maybe we owe the unlucky ones cHORUS Em-G-C-Am It's so easy from above You can't really see it all People who belong together Lost and sad and small But there's nothing to be done for them It doesn't work that way Sure we all have soulmates but we walk Past them every day Oh no CLOSING VERSE C-D*-Bm-Em Maybe that's how books get written Maybe that's why songs get sung Maybe we owe the unlucky ones