Ben Folds

Side Of The Road

Ben Folds


Tom: C

C    G         Am 
You wait in the car
        F          G
On the side of the road
C       G             Am
Let me go and stand a while
          F                       G
I wanna know you're there, but I wanna be alone

[Chorus] 
Dm    F        C         G
If only for a minute or two
Dm       F                     C            G
I wanna see what it feels like to live without you
Dm        F               C         G
I wanna feel the touch of my own skin
Dm     F              C        G
Against the sun, against the wind

[Verse]
C          G        Am
I walked out in a field
               F                    G
The grass was high and it brushed against my legs
C                    G                   Am
I just stood and looked out at the open space
        F                G
And a farm house out a little ways

[Chorus]
  Dm     F                C           G
And I wondered about the people who lived in it
Dm       F                   C            G
And I wondered if they were happy and content
Dm         F              C           G
Were there children and a man and a wife
Dm          F                     C            G
And did she love him and take her hair down at night

[Verse]
C       G                 Am
If I stray too far from you
    F                 G
Don't go and try to find me
C             G                      Am
It doesn't mean that I don't love you
         F                     G
It don't mean that I won't come back and stay beside you

[Chorus]
Dm       F               C          G
It only means that I need a little time
Dm        F        C      G
To follow that unbroken line
Dm      F          C            G
To a place where the wild things grow
Dm      F           C            G
To a place where I always used to go.

[Solo]
C G Am F G (x2)

[Chorus] 
Dm    F        C         G
If only for a minute or two
Dm       F                     C            G
I wanna see what it feels like to live without you
Dm        F               C         G
I wanna feel the touch of my own skin
Dm     F              C        G
Against the sun, against the wind