Ben Folds - From above
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This tab was partly based on the following clip of a live performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT07lzU7xjg
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Intro:
Dm-C*-Dm-C*
VERSE 1:
FThey even looked at each other once
C*
Across a crowded bar
EmHe was with Martha
DmShe with Tom
Neither Fof them really knew
C*
What was going on
Strange feeling of neEmver
Heartbeats becoming Dmsynchronized
Staying that way foreverF
C*
But most of the time
It was just near misses
Air kissesEm
Once in a book store
Once at a partyDm
She came in as he was leavingF
C*
And years ago at the movies
She sat behind himEm
Six thirty showing
Of WDmhile You Were Sleeping
FNever once looked around
CHORUS:
Dm-C-F-Dm
It's so easy from above
You can't really see it all
People who belong together
Lost and sad and small
But there's nothing to be done for them
It doesn't work that way
Sure we all have soulmates but we walk
Past them every day
Oh no
F-C*-Em-Dm
VERSE 2:
F-C*-Em-Dm
And it's not like they were actually ever unhappy in the lives they lived
He married Martha
She married Tom
Just this vague notion that something was wrong
An ache, an absence, a phantom limb
An itch that could never be scratchedF
cHORUS
Dm-C-F-Dm
It's so easy from above
You can't really see it all
People who belong together
Lost and sad and small
But there's nothing to be done for them
It doesn't work that way
Sure we all have soulmates but we walk
Past them every day
Oh no
F-C*-Em-Dm
BRIDGE
CNeither of them knew what was Emgoing on
FThe strange feeling of never
Heartbeats becoming synchronisedFm
Staying that way foreveDmr
INTERLUDE: Dm-C-F-Dm
VERSE 3
F-C*-Em-Dm
And who knows whether that's how it should be
Maybe a ghost lives in that vacancy
Maybe that's how books get written
Maybe that's why songs get sung
Maybe we owe the unlucky ones
cHORUS
Dm-C-F-Dm
It's so easy from above
You can't really see it all
People who belong together
Lost and sad and small
But there's nothing to be done for them
It doesn't work that way
Sure we all have soulmates but we walk
Past them every day
Oh no
CLOSING VERSE
F-C*-Em-Dm
Maybe that's how books get written
Maybe that's why songs get sung
Maybe we owe the unlucky ones