The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind chords by Ben Folds Five

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
Bb majorBb C majorC DmDm C/EC/E
Bb majorBb C majorC
Bb majorBb C majorC DmDm C/EC/E
Bb majorBb C majorC

Verse 1:
Bb majorBb             C majorC       DmDm
Apehead's brother wants to beat up Paul
   C/EC/E       Bb majorBb    C majorC
The boys have gone to watch
Bb majorBb           C majorC      DmDm
Some of the girls are down at the mall
C/EC/E         Bb majorBb  C majorC
Justine's got cherry cola and scotch
Bb majorBb C majorC DmDm C/EC/E
Bb majorBb C majorC
Bb majorBb            C majorC       DmDm
Later on it's everyone 'round to Bec's
  C/EC/E            Bb majorBb   C majorC
Her parents are away in New York

Prechorus:
Bb majorBb          C majorC
But Sara, well, she just can't bear
  DmDm                C/EC/E
The stupidity, the boredom, the grind
   Bb majorBb           C majorC
She stays at school so that she can hear
   DmDm     C/EC/E    Bb majorBb
The sound of the life of the mind

Chorus:
     Eb MajorEb     FF
And it's noisy out there
  DmDm       G minorGm Gm/F
It rocks me like a mother
Eb MajorEb       FF
Rosa Parks and DNA
Ebmaj7Ebmaj7      F5F5 Fsus4Fsus4
Joan of Arc and JFK
FF    Eb MajorEb    FF
But it's noisy up there
  DmDm       G minorGm FF
It rocks me like a mother

Post-Chorus:
Bb majorBb    CsusCsus
Oh, ohh, oh, ohh
DmDm     C/EC/E
Oh, oh, oh
Bb majorBb   C majorC
Oh, oh, oh

Verse 2:
   Bb majorBb            C majorC      DmDm
She's cut 'em all out of her social circle
C/EC/E           Bbsus2Bbsus2 Csus2Csus2
Won't introduce them to Lincoln or Frost
     Bb majorBb             C majorC       DmDm
Doesn't want to let them get to know Keats or Studs Terkel
   C/EC/E         Bb5Bb5    C majorC
They'll never know what they have lost

Prechorus:
  Bb majorBb        C majorC
But Sara, well, she just can't bear
    DmDm               C/EC/E
The stupidity, the boredom, the grind
  Bbmaj7Bbmaj7          C majorC
She stays at school so that she can hear
   DmDm      C/EC/E    Bbmaj7Bbmaj7
The sound of the life of the mind

Chorus 2:
     Eb MajorEb       FF
And it's noisy out there
  DmDm       G minorGm FF
It rocks me like a mother
 Eb MajorEb       FF
Copernicus and Fortune's Wheel
Ebmaj7Ebmaj7        F5F5  FsusFsus  FF
Plato, Glenn Gould and the New Deal
     Eb MajorEb     FF
And it's noisy up there
DmDm         G minorGm  FF C/EC/E
It rocks me like a mother

Bridge:
         Ebmaj13         C/EC/E
Sara already knows pretty soon she'll be leaving
            Ebmaj13
Once she's hoovered up whatever she can find
          C/EC/E
She doesn't want to hear about
        Ebmaj13           C/EC/E
Pregnancies, phone fights, TV, take-outs, half-sex, weddings
   Ebmaj13             C majorC
The sound of the life she'll leave behind

Solo:
Oh!
Ebmaj7Ebmaj7 FF DmDm Eb/GEb/G
Ebmaj7Ebmaj7 FF Dm7Dm7 Ebmaj7Ebmaj7

Chorus 3:
Ebmaj7Ebmaj7           FF
Yeah, it's noisy out there
  Dm7Dm7       Gm7Gm7 F6F6
It rocks me like a mother
Ebmaj7Ebmaj7  FF
Oh, ohh, oh, ohh
Dm7Dm7    Ebmaj7Ebmaj7
Oh, oh, oh
     Ebmaj7Ebmaj7     FF
And it's noisy out there
  Dm7Dm7       G minorGm Gm/F
It rocks me like a mother
Ebmaj7Ebmaj7  F6F6
Oh, ohh, oh, ohh
Dm7Dm7   Ebmaj7Ebmaj7
Oh, oh, oh