Ben Folds – From Above (Ukulele)

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This tab was partly based on the following clip of a live performance: *** C*: e | 0 B | 3 G | 0 D | 4 A | 5 E | x *** Intro: Dm-C*-Dm-C* VERSE 1:
F
They even looked at each other once

         C*
Across a crowded bar

Em
He was with Martha

Dm
She with Tom

        F
Neither of them really knew

         C*
What was going on

                     Em
Strange feeling of never

                    Dm
Heartbeats becoming synchronized

                        F
Staying that way forever

                     C* 
But most of the time
It was just near misses
          Em
Air kisses
Once in a book store
               Dm
Once at a party

                             F
She came in as he was leaving

                          C*
And years ago at the movies

                  Em
She sat behind him
Six thirty showing
    Dm
Of While You Were Sleeping

F
Never once looked around
CHORUS: Dm-C-F-Dm 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 F-C*-Em-Dm VERSE 2: F-C*-Em-Dm 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
                                     F
An itch that could never be scratched
cHORUS Dm-C-F-Dm 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 F-C*-Em-Dm BRIDGE
C                             Em
Neither of them knew what was going on

F
The strange feeling of never

                                Fm
Heartbeats becoming synchronised

                       Dm
Staying that way forever
INTERLUDE: Dm-C-F-Dm VERSE 3 F-C*-Em-Dm 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 Dm-C-F-Dm 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 F-C*-Em-Dm Maybe that's how books get written Maybe that's why songs get sung Maybe we owe the unlucky ones