ben folds

[amelia]

a friend sent me his solo CD, rockin the suburbs, it's pretty great. the first few times i heard it..i didn't really like it that much...but..once i really took the time to listen to the lyrics..i was hooked...i think i've listened to it..100 times in the past week.


Carrying Cathy~~Ben Folds

Her window was hung like a painting
She worried it might come to life
She stared for hours
So obsessed was I and self-absorbed that I
Didn't see that she was
Crying

There was always someone carrying
There was always someone carrying
Always someone's carrying Cathy

There were times when I'd find myself saying to friends:
"You don't understand"
And "she's different when it's just me and her", and I
Closed the door and I tried to hang on as she
Sank into the dark
I was over my head

There was always someone carrying
There was always someone carrying
Always someone's carrying Cathy

We gave you everything
You could have been anything
We gave you everything
You could have done anything

But to imagine a fall
With no one at all to catch you
There'd always been someone

Then one night she climbed into the picture frame
Out in the frozen air
And out of sight

Woke up sad from this dream I've been having
The last couple nights or so
With her father, her brothers, we're all at the funeral
Carrying a box through the rain
Then somebody says that it's always been this way

Always someone's carrying
There was always someone carrying
Always someone's carrying Cathy

 

[JerseyBoy]

cool...always on the lookout for new stuff...

What are the other good songs on the CD?

 

[amelia]

cool...always on the lookout for new stuff...

What are the other good songs on the CD?

all of them...except the title track..that one just annoys me!

 

[JerseyBoy]

thanks!

gonna, umm, dload a few (for preview only of course!) Dont want those ASCAP bastards at my door

 

[amelia]

i posted this one in my confessions thread..but..it's the best love song...EVER

The Luckiest~~Ben Folds

I don't get many things right the first time
In fact, I am told that a lot
Now I know all the wrong turns, the stumbles and falls
Brought me here

And where was I before the day
That I first saw your lovely face?
Now I see it everyday
And I know

That I am
I am
I am
The luckiest

What if I'd been born fifty years before you
In a house on a street where you lived?
Maybe I'd be outside as you passed on your bike
Would I know?

And in a white sea of eyes
I see one pair that I recognize
And I know

That I am
I am
I am
The luckiest

I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you

Next door there's an old man who lived to his nineties
And one day passed away in his sleep
And his wife; she stayed for a couple of days
And passed away

I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong
That I know

That I am
I am
I am
The luckiest

 

[JerseyBoy]

hehe...this was the first I just got. I was expecting something rockin...

thanx again!

 

[amelia]

hehe...this was the first I just got. I was expecting something rockin...

thanx again!

no..i don't think any of it's rockin

 

[JerseyBoy]

Carying Cathy

reflective is good...

 

[amelia]

try the song fired

Fired
by Ben Folds

Lucretia walks into a room
Because she does it's not the same room
The one she wanted to be in
She says, "Everywhere I go, damn! There I am."
And I just want to walk away
Won't you let me walk away sometimes?
Won't you let me walk away?

Every one of you is fired

I'm just an ordinary guy
And all I want is to be loved - is that so wrong?
Don't think that I don't know what you're saying about me
I hear it all through these thin walls
And I just want to walk away
Won't you let me walk away this time?
I just want to walk away

Every one of you is fired
Every one of you is oh oh oh oh
Every one of you is fired, yeah!

(Ooh!)

I just want to walk away
Won't you let me walk away this time?
'Cause I just want to walk away

Every one of you is fired
Every one of you is oh oh oh oh
Every one of you is fired
Every one of you is oh oh oh oh
Fired

MOTHERFUCKER!

 

[amelia]

Losing Lisa~~Ben Folds

The lights are off again
She took me by surprise
She's so sensitive
This shit just happens sometimes
She's my everything
She's my best friend and more
We don't do anything
We didn't do the day
Before you go
You oughta know
That I didn't mean to hurt you, I just wanted you to know

Black tears are falling down her face
And I am wrong
Black tears are falling and she won't say what I've done
She's sitting here beside me, then she is gone
Black tears are falling, falling

Remember long ago
Together laughing, loving
Oh so long ago
When we were buying something
Life was simple then
But she's not happy now, and I
Don't feel anything
Her lips are moving
I am mesmerised
By tiny lies
I'm watching as the shapes are drawing slowly from her eyes

Black tears are falling down her face
And I am wrong
Black tears are falling and she won't say what I've done
She's sitting here beside me, then she is gone
Black tears are falling, falling
Black tears are falling, falling

Losing Lisa
Losing Lisa
Losing Lisa
And there's nothing I can do

Black tears are falling, falling (ooh ooh)
Black tears are falling, falling (ooh ooh)
Black tears are falling, falling (ooh ooh)
Black tears are falling, falling (ooh ooh)

 

[Mellon Collie]

I Ben Folds

 

[PumpkinSmasher]

Ben Folds is great!

 

[PumpkinSmasher]

Ben Folds- Brick

6 am day after Christmas
I throw some clothes on in the dark
The smell of cold
Car seat is freezing
The world is sleeping
I am numb
Up the stairs to her apartment
She is balled up on the couch
Her mom and dad went down to Charlotte
they're not home to find us out
And we drive
Now that I have found someone
I'm feeling more alone
Than I ever have before
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
they call her name at 7:30
I pace around the parking lot
then I walk down to buy her flowers
And sell some gifts that I got
Can't you see
It's not me you're dying for
Now she's feeling more alone
Then she ever has before
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
As weeks went by
It showed that she was not fine
They told me son it's time to tell the truth
She broke down and I broke down
Cause I was tired of lying
Driving home to her apartment
For the moment we're alone
She's alone
I'm alone
Now I know it

 

[amelia]

Ben Folds- Brick

that's the ben folds' five..it's totally different

 

[PumpkinSmasher]

that's the ben folds' five..it's totally different

Not the same person?

 

[amelia]

Not the same person?

it's the same person...i was just talking about his solo stuff...

i gave you the winky eye so you'd know i was just teasin!

 

[PumpkinSmasher]

it's the same person...i was just talking about his solo stuff...

i gave you the winky eye so you'd know i was just teasin!

we get so technical sometimes. he wrote the song.

 

[amelia]

so...you're liking his stuff?

 

[PumpkinSmasher]

yes i do. I like lots of music.

 

[kotori]

a friend sent me his solo CD, rockin the suburbs, it's pretty great. the first few times i heard it..i didn't really like it that much...but..once i really took the time to listen to the lyrics..i was hooked...i think i've listened to it..100 times in the past week.

I like it too.

Rockin' the suburbs, just like Jon Bon Jovi did,
Rockin' the suburbs only he was talented

 

[amelia]

Re: Re: ben folds

I like it too.

i was really surprised that i like it as much as i do.

 

[teddybear4play]

Re: Re: ben folds

I like it too.

Rockin' the suburbs, just like Jon Bon Jovi did,
Rockin' the suburbs only he was talented

It gets me real pissed off, makes me wanna say
It gets me real pissed off, makes me wanna say
It gets me real pissed off, makes me wanna say . . .
FUCK!!



TB4p

 

[WaxNWane]

About a year ago at one of his first solo shows, Glen Phillips got up on stage and played a couple of songs. Somewhere in California, but I found mpegs of it at the time. Whey cool.

Always was a shame the 5 didn't get more attention than they did.