Evaporated chords by Ben Folds Five

Chords with lyrics

I sat down with Version 1, tried to make it a little more complete and readable.
Some of the chords may be simplified because I play a ukulele, not a guitar.
Credit for most of the work goes to Skip Allums.


FF A minorAm Bb majorBb C majorC (x2)

FF     DmDm        Bbadd9Bbadd9
What I've kept with me, and what I've thrown away.

  FF           DmDm      Bbadd9Bbadd9
And where the hell I've ended up on this glary, random day

     Dm7Dm7         G minorGm
Were the things I really cared about,

   C majorC       FF           Bbadd9Bbadd9 (tacit)
Just left along the way, for being too pent up and proud

FF       DmDm       Bbadd9Bbadd9
Woke up way too late, feeling hungover and old.

    FF        DmDm         Bbadd9Bbadd9
And the sun was shining bright and I walked barefoot down the road.

    Dm7Dm7        G minorGm
Started thinking 'bout my old man,

  C majorC     FF        Bbadd9Bbadd9 (tacit)
It seems that all men want to get into a car and go, ...

A minorAm Bb majorBb
Any-where.


CHORUS:
    Bb majorBb  C majorC    FF    Bb majorBb
Here I stand,  Sad and free.

    Bb majorBb C majorC   FF    Bb majorBb
I can't cry, I can't see

     Bb majorBb  C majorC   DmDm   A minorAm    Bb majorBb
What I've done.  Oh God what have I done?


FF A minorAm Bb majorBb C majorC (x2)


FF         DmDm      Bbadd9Bbadd9
Don't you know I'm numb, man, no I can't feel a thing at all

      FF       DmDm               Bbadd9Bbadd9
Cause it's all smiles and business these days And I'm indifferent to the loss

    Dm7Dm7         G minorGm          C majorC     FF
I have faith that there's a soul somewhere that's leading me around.

  Bbadd9Bbadd9
I wonder if she knows which way is down

    Bb majorBb  C majorC    FF    Bb majorBb
Here I stand,  Sad and free.

    Bb majorBb C majorC   FF    Bb majorBb
I can't cry, I can't see

     Bb majorBb  C majorC   DmDm   A minorAm    Bb majorBb (tacit)
What I've done.  Oh God what have I done?

C majorC  C7C7
Ooo-ooh...

  Bb majorBb          C majorC
And I poured my heart ou--ut.

  Bb majorBb      C majorC  Bb majorBb
And I poured my heart out.

FF    A minorAm   (N/C)
It evaporated... see?


FF       DmDm         Bbadd9Bbadd9
Blind man on a canyon's edge of a panoramic scene.

FF            DmDm           Bbadd9Bbadd9
Or maybe I'm kite that's flying high and random, dangling a string.

  Dm7Dm7        G minorGm     C majorC          FF
Or slumped over in a vacant room, head on a strangers knee.

   FF          Bbadd9Bbadd9 (tacit)
I'm sure back home, they think I've lost my mind.


    Bb majorBb  C majorC    FF    Bb majorBb
Here I stand,  Sad and free.

    Bb majorBb C majorC   FF    Bb majorBb
I can't cry, I can't see

     Bb majorBb  C majorC   DmDm   A minorAm    Bb majorBb (tacit)
What I've done.  Oh God what have I done?

FF A minorAm Bb majorBb C majorC (x3)
FF A minorAm Bb majorBb