This is my first attempt at doing this, but I think it is accurate. Enjoy, it's a fun song!
Intro pt1- C G/C Am/C Caug C/D G C/D G (x2)
Intro pt2- G F/G (x5)
[Verse 1]
C F
Won't you look up at the skyline
F G/E
At the mortar, block, and glass
F F/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/F# F/G G
And I sang and danced about a high-rise
F
And you were laughing at
G (Bass)- /C /B /A /G
My helmet hat,
F
Laughing at
G F/G (x2)
My torch
[Chorus]
C G/C Am/C
Go ahead you can laugh all you want
Caug /B /C /C# C/D G C/D G C/D G C/D
I got my phil - osophy
G C G/C Am/C
and I trust it like the ground
Caug /B /C /C# C/D G C/D G
that's why my phil - osophy
C/D G G F/G G F/G
it keeps me walking when I'm falling down
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/b/ben_folds_five/philosophy_crd_ver_3.html ]
[Verse 2]
C F
I see that there is evil
C G/E
and I know that there is good
F F/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/F# F/G G
yeah, I'm crazy, but I get the job done
and I say:
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
Am /E Caug/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
[Intro pt1]
[Verse 3]
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
[Chorus]
G C G/C
So you can laugh all you want to
ect.
HUGE piano solo.
