 Genius Lyrics
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Ben Folds Five – Brick
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“Brick” is about a couple going through the stressful process of aborting a pregnancy. Ben Folds has said that this song is autobiographical and describes what he went through
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Ben Folds Five – Kate
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[Verse 1] / She plays "Wipeout" on the drums / The squirrels and the birds come / Gather around to sing the guitar / Oh, I... Have you got nothing to say? / [Verse 2] / When all
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Ben Folds Five – Birds
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(Instrumental)
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Ben Folds Five – Song for the Dumped
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“Song for the Dumped” is a breakup song. The singer rants in an honest and explicit way about the girl who just dumped him. The simplicity of his anger makes the song powerful. He
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Ben Folds Five – One Down
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(One... / Two... / One, two, three, four...) / I got up and I drove to work / On the wrong side of the road / What the hell would I do / I must admit I didn't know / Andrea came
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Ben Folds Five – Jackson Cannery (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Stop the bus / I wanna be lonely / When seconds pass slowly / And years go flying by / You gotta stop the bus / I'll get off here / Enough's enough / I'm leaving this
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Ben Folds Five – The Last Polka
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A song about the collapse of a marriage and the passive aggressive ways the man and woman ignore what’s staring them right in the face. Interestingly, the song was co-written with
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Ben Folds Five – Do It Anyway/Overture-Heaven on Their Minds (Live)
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Jesus! / You might put your love and trust on the line / It's risky, people love to tear that down / Let 'em try / Do it anyway / Risk it anyway / And if you're paralyzed by a
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Ben Folds Five – Landed (Live)
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We'd hit the bottom / I thought it was my fault / In a way I guess it was / I'm just now finding out / What it was all about / Moved to the west coast / Away from everyone / She
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Ben Folds Five – One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces (Live)
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September '75, I was 47 inches high / My mom said by Christmas I would have / A badass mother GI Joe for your little minds to blow / I still got beat up after class / Yeah, now I'm
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Ben Folds Five – House
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There's a sign up in the yard and the, the furniture has gone / Filled with fetid memories unworthy of a song / Flashes of sad and angry faces come and go / Could anyone live
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Ben Folds Five – Silver Street
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Now the houses are ghosts / Over Silver Street / They got 'em dressed up like clowns / Married couples slamming doors / Bums praising the Lord / You're playing tapes for the town
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Ben Folds Five – Amelia Bright
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Hey, something is new / It got into me and I hope that it got into you / The way, like colors like paint / The trumpet's been played / And I hope that it's inside / I hope that it
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Ben Folds Five – Erase Me (Live)
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What was our home / Paper not stone / A lean-to at most / And when you pulled your half away / Gravity won / Like it always does / Did I weigh a ton? / Would it be easier to just
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Ben Folds Five – In Love
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I remember / The night we met / That night we sat / Entwined / Under summer skies / I looked into your eyes / And you looked into mine / You said, "you're not like the rest" / (
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Ben Folds Five – The Last Polka
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A song about the collapse of a marriage and the passive aggressive ways the man and woman ignore what’s staring them right in the face. Interestingly, the song was co-written with
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Ben Folds Five – Lonely
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Lonely / Let me / Sit here with my loneliness / Let me keep the shreds, 'cause / They are the only / Give me space / To ache ' / It's hot in here / Allow me to be free to need you
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Ben Folds Five – Video Killed the Radio Star
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I heard you on my wireless back in fifty two / Lying awake intently tuning in on you / If I were young it didn't stop you coming through / Oh-a oh / They took the credit for your
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Ben Folds Five – Video - Live at Studion, Stockholm, Sweden - March 1997
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Barren stares as they light up the screen / Bearing teardrops that shatter in slow-motion / Novocaine our brains and we're out like lights / And as I'm growing older, I'm bored / I
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Ben Folds Five – Battle of Who Could Care Less
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[Verse 1] / Do you not hear me anymore? / I know it's not your thing to care / I know it's cool to be so bored / It sucks me in when you're aloof / It sucks me in, it sucks it
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Ben Folds Five – For All the Pretty People
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God damn, I wanna rock / Ready to rock, man? / Yeah / Hey, hey, hey / Wuit fucking around / I wanna rock, okay? / 1, 2, 1, 2, 3 / Man, I am serious, I'm not fuckin' around now / I'
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Ben Folds Five – Narcolepsy
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The opening track on The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner, Ben Folds Five’s final studio album. According to Entertainment Weekly:
In what may or may not be a meta-
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Ben Folds Five – She Don’t Use Jelly - Lounge-A-Palooza Version
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I know a girl who / Think and goes / She'll make you breakfast / She'll make you toast / She don't use butter / She don't use cheese / She don't use jelly or / Any of these / She
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Ben Folds – Protection
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[Verse 1] / Tourists wear their wallets in high places when abroad / So as not to be ripped off in ways to which they're not apprised / Lawyers write some goofy terms in letters to
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Ben Folds Five – Song for the Dumped - Live at Hard Rock Hotel, Las Vegas, NV - May 1998
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[Verse 1] / So you wanted / To take a break / Slow it down some / And have some space / Well, fuck you too / [Chorus] / Give me my money back / Give me my money back / You bitch
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