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Ben Folds : Ben Folds Five
1995

  1. Jackson Cannery
  2. Philosophy

  3. Best Imitation Of Myself

Jackson Cannery

C9
C6
x4
C9
D7
Stop the bus, I wanna be lonely
E7
G7
When seconds pass slowly and years go flying by
D
F#7
G7
You gotta stop the bus and get off here
E7/g#
G7
Enough's enough and I'm leaving this factory
C9
D7
All she wants is food on the table
E7
G7
And I won't be able to bring it home
D
F#7
G7
And all I want, come on
E7/g#
G7
'Cause all I need, Yeah it's free
D
G7
D
G7
D
G7
D
G7
'Cause I'm a factory
A7
G7
Did Mother Nature tell you
C9
D
G7
D
"Boy, you come and go as you please?"
E7
F7
F#7
G7
That's what she said to me
A7
D
G7
D
But big brother got the keys and I got Jackson Cannery
C9
D
G7
D
C9
D
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
C9
D7
Millionaires and mill rats live side by side
E7
Messed up my brother's mind
G7
D7
F#7
G7
He's far from earth, tell me, what's it worth?
E7/g#
G7
The same as you, the same as me
D
G7
D
G7
D
G7
D
G7
In this factory
A7
G7
Did Mother Nature tell you
C9
D
G7
D
"Boy, you come and go as you please?"
E7
F7
F#7
G7
That's what she said to me
A7
D
G7
D
But big brother got the keys and I got Jackson Cannery
C9
D
G7
D
C9
D
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Bm
D7
It's 4 in the morning
Gmaj7
C9
D
Mother don't know that I'm going far away
E7
C9
C6
x4
She's whispering to the moon, "I hope he don't join you soon"
D7
Baby boss climbs up on his soapbox
E7
G7
Great Caesar's ghost knows what's best for me He says stop the bus
A7
G7
Did Mother Nature tell you
C9
D
G7
D
"Boy, you come and go as you please?"
E7
F7
F#7
G7
That's what she said to me
A7
But big brother got the keys and I got Jackson Cannery
G7
A7
But big brother got the keys and I got Jackson Cannery
G7
A7
E7/g#
G7
But big brother got the keys and I got Jackson Cannery
C9
D
Bm
Gmaj7
A7
C9

Philosophy

C
G/c
Am/c
C+
C/d
G
C/d
G
x2
G
F/g
x5
C
F
Won't you look up at the skyline
F
G/e
At the mortar, block, and glass
F
/f#
/g
G
And check out the reflections in my eyes?
C
F
You see they always used to be there
C
G/e
Even when this all was grass
F
/f#
/g
G
And I sang and danced about a high-rise
F
G
/c
/b
/a
/g
And you were laughing at my helmet hat
F
G
F/g
Laughing at my torch
C
G/c
Am/c
Go ahead you can laugh all you want
C+
/b
/c
/c#
C/d
G
C/d
G
C/d
G
C/d
I got my philosophy
G
C
G/c
Am/c
And I trust it like the ground
C+
/b
/c
/c#
C/d
G
C/d
G
That's why my philosophy
C/d
G
G
F/g
G
F/g
It keeps me walking when I'm falling down
C
F
I see that there is evil
C
G/e
And I know that there is good
F
/f#
/g
G
And the in-betweens I never understood
C
F
Won't you look at me, I'm crazy
C
G/e
But I get the job done
F
/f#
/g
G
Yeah, I'm crazy, but I get the job done And I say Go ahead you can laugh all you want I got my philosophy And I trust it like the ground That's why my philosophy It keeps me walking when I'm falling down
Am
/e
C+/a
/e
I pushed you 'cause I loved you guys
C/a
/e
F#dim7/a
I didn't realize
/e
G
F/c
C
F/c
C
You weren't having fun
F
And I dragged you up the stairs
G
And I told you to fly
F
You were flapping your arms
G
Am
You started to cry, you were too high
F/a#
No, too high
C
G/c
Am/c
C+
C/d
G
C/d
G
x2
C
F
Now you take this all for granted
C
G/e
You take the mortar, block, and glass
F
F/f#
F/g
G
And you forget the speech and moved the stone
C
F
But it's really not that you can't see
C
G/e
The forest for the trees
F
F/f#
F/g
You never been out in the woods alone Go ahead you can laugh all you want I got my philosophy And I trust it like the ground That's why my philosophy It keeps me walking when I'm falling down
G
C
G/c
So you can laugh all you want to

Best Imitation Of Myself

C
C/b
I feel like a quote out of context
Am
G
F
G
Am
D
Withholding the rest so I can be for you what you wanna see
C
C/b
Am
I got the gesture and sounds, got the timing down
G
F
G
Am
D
It's uncanny, yeah, you'd think it was me. Do you think I should
G
E7
Am
G
D
Take a class to lose my southern accent?
F
G
F
G
Did I make me up or make the face that is stuck
F
G
C
I do the best imitation of myself
C
C/b
Am
G
The "problem with you" speech you gave me was fine
F
G
Am
D
I liked the theories about my little stage
C
C/b
Am
And I swore I was listening till I started drifting
G
F
G
Am
D
Around the part about me acting my age. Now if it's
G
E7
Am
G
D
All the same... I've people to entertain
F
G
F
G
You know I'll juggle one-handed, do some magic tricks and
F
G
C
The best imitation of myself
E7
Am
Maybe I'm thinking myself in a hole...
E7
Am
Wondering...
F
Am
Who I am when I oughta know
F
Am
E7
Straighten up now time to go fool somebody else...
Am
G
D
G
E7
Fool somebody else
C
C/b
Am
G
Last night I was east with them... and west within...
F
G
Am
D
Trying to be for you what you wanna see
C
C/b
Am
But I can't help it with you, the good and bad comes through
G
F
G
Am
D
Don't want you hanging out with no one but me
G
E7
Am
G
D
Now that it's all the same... it comes from the same place
F
G
And if my mind's somewhere else
F
G
You won't be able to tell
F
G
C
I do the best imitation of myself
F
G
Yes it's uncanny to see
F
G
You'd really think it was me
F
G
Am
D
The best imitation of myself...
F
G
D
I do the best imitation of myself