FOLDS BEN - "still fighting it" Tablature

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Song: Still Fighting It
Artist: Ben Folds
Album: Rockin' The Suburbs (2001)

transcribed by Andrew Afan [atamize@hotmail.com]

Chords:

EADGBE
C x32010
Fmaj7 x33210
G 32003x
F5 133211
C5 x35553
G5 355433
Fm x33111

Verse 1:

C
Good morning son
Fmaj7
i am a bird
C Fmaj7
wearing a brown polyester shirt
C
you want a coke?
Fmaj7
maybe some fries?
C G
the roast beef combo's only nine ninety five
C
but it's okay
Fmaj7
you don't have to pay
C G
i've got all the change

Chorus 1:

F5
everybody knows
C5 G5
it hurts to grow up
F5
but everybody does
C5 G5
it's so weird to be back here
F5
let me tell you what
C5
the years go on and
G5
we're still fighting it
F5
we're still fighting it
C Fmaj7 C
and you're so much like me
Fmaj7
i'm sorry

Verse 2: (Same chords as Verse 1)

good morning son
twenty years from now
maybe we'll both sit down
and have a few beers
and i can tell
you about today
and how i picked you up
and everything changed
it was pain
sunny days and rain
i knew you'd feel the same things

Chorus 2:

F5
everybody knows
C5 G5
it sucks to grow up
F5
but everybody does
C5 G5
and so weird to be back here
F5
let me tell you what
C5
the years go on and
G5
we're still fighting it
F5
we're still fighting it
C Fmaj7
you'll try and try
C Fmaj7 Fm
and one day you'll fly
C Fmaj7
away from me

Bridge:

C Fmaj7 C Fmaj7

C )
{Good morning son} )
Fmaj7 )
{Good morning son} ) Repeat Once

C
Good morning son
Fmaj7
i am a bird
C Fmaj7
{Good morning son}

C
it was pain
Fmaj7
sunny days and rain
C G
i knew you'd feel the same things

Chorus 3:

F5
everybody knows
C5 G5
it hurts to grow up
F5
but everybody does
C5 G5
and so weird to be back here
F5
let me tell you what
C5
the years go on and

G5 )
we're still fighting it )
F5 )
we're still fighting it ) Repeat once

C Fmaj7 C
and you're so much like me
Fmaj7
i'm sorry

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