Losing Lisa

Words & Music:

Ben Folds

 

G              F              C        G

The lights are off again, she took me by surprise

She's so sensitive.  This shit just happens sometimes.

She's my everything, she's my best friend and more

F           C                         G      F               Em

We don't do anything we didn't do the day before you go you oughta know.

       Eb             Dsus4            D

That I didn't mean to hurt you, I just wanted you to know

 

CHORUS:

G               F                C        Bb   C   Dm   C   Dm

Black tears are falling down her face and I am wrong.

Black tears are falling and she won't say what I've done.

She's sitting here beside me, then she is gone.

Bb              C        Dm      G

Black tears are falling, falling.

 

Remember long ago?  Together laughing, loving.

Oh, so long ago.  When we were buying something.

Life was simple, then.  But she's not happy now, and I

Don't feel anything.  Her lips are moving, I am mesmerized by tiny lies.

I'm watching as the shapes are drawing slowly from her eyes

 

CHORUS:  [new last line is:]

Bb              C        Dm    C   Bb              C        Dm   C   Dsus4   D

Black tears are falling, falling.  Black tears are falling, falling

 

BRIDGE:

Am7    D     Am7    D     F                       Dsus4     D   Dsus4   D

Losing Lisa, losing Lisa, losing Lisa and there's nothing I can do

 

INSTRUMENTAL CHORUS:  [2x]

 

G               F        C     Bb  G               F        C      Bb

Black tears are falling, falling.  Black tears are falling, falling.

G               F        C     Bb  G               F        C      Bb/F

Black tears are falling, falling.  Black tears are falling, falling.

 




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