Whatever And Ever Amen

Ben Folds Five Whatever And Ever Amen Lyrics
1.One Angry Dwarf & 200 Solemn Faces

September '75 I was 47 inches high
Mom said by christmas I would have
A badass mother G.I. Joe
For your little minds to blow
I still got beat up after class

Yeah, now I'm big and important
One angry dwarf and 200 solemn faces are you
If you really want to see me check the papers and the TV
Look who's telling who what to do
Kiss my ass goodbye

Don't give me that bullshit, you know who I am
I'm your nightmare little man
Vic, you stole my lunch money, made me cry
Jane, remember second grade?
Said you couldn't stand my face
Rather than kiss me you said you'd rather die

Now I'm big and important
One angry dwarf and 200 solemn faces are you
If you really want to see me check the papers and the TV
Look who's telling who what to do
No, kiss my ass goodbye

You'll be sorry one day
Yes you will, yes you will
You shouldn't push me around
'cause I will, yes I will
You will be sorry when I'm big
Yes you will, yes you will
You will be sorry

Now I'm big and important
One angry dwarf and 200 solemn faces are you
If you really want to see me check the papers and the TV
No, Look who's telling who what to do
Kiss my ass

Kiss my ass, kiss my ass, kiss my ass goodbye now
Kiss my ass, kiss my ass, kiss my ass goodbye now

Kiss my ass, kiss my ass, kiss my ass goodbye now
Kiss my ass, kiss my ass, kiss my ass goodbye now

September 75 I was 47 inches high
September 75
September 75


2.Fair

Well he shouted out his last word
And he stumbled through the yard
And she shattered her last china plate
and spun off in the car
When he lunged onto the hood
She stopped to tell him she'd been wrong
He was thrown head over heels
Into the traffic coming on
But then...

All is fair, all is fair in love

Did you get my other letters
Sometimes I think I oughta call 'Cause you know I often wonder
If you open them at all
Every couple nights or so
You know you pop into my dreams
I just can't get rid of you
Like you got rid of me
Ah, but I send my best
'Cause God knows you've seen my worst
Yeah, well all is fair
All is fair in love

All this breathing in
Never breathing out
All this breathing in
Never breathing out
All this breathing in
Never breathing out

Well I guess she made her way
Through the mob too late to hear him say
That he'd gotten all he'd wanted
A crowd to watch him bear the pain he'd been keeping in
(So what) so what

All is fair, all is fair in love
Yeah, well all is fair
all is fair in love

Am I right?
Am I right?
And I'm lonely and I'm Right
I'm lonely and I'm Right
Yeah!


3.Brick

6am, day after Christmas
I throw some clothes on in the dark
The smell of cold
Car seat is freezing
The world is sleeping
And I am numb

Up the stairs to her apartment
She is balled up on the couch
Her mom and dad went down to Charlotte
They're not home to find us out

And we drive
Now that I have found someone
I'm feeling more alone
Than I ever have before

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

They call her name at 7:30
I pace around the parking lot
Then I walk down to buy her flowers
And sell some gifts that I got
Can't you see
It's not me you're dying for
Now she's feeling more alone
Than she ever has before

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the coast and I'm heading nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

As weeks went by
It showed that she was not fine
They told me 'Son, it's time
To tell the truth'
And she broke down
And I broke down
'Cause I was tired of lying

Driving back to her apartment
For the moment we're alone
She's alone
I'm alone
Now I know it

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the coast and I'm heading nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly


4.Song For The Dumped

So you wanted to take a break
Slow it down some, and have some space
Well fuck you too!

Give me my money back
Give me my money back, you bitch
I want my money back
And don't forget
And don't forget to give me back my black T-Shirt

I wish I hadn't
bought you dinner
right before you
dumped me on your front porch

Give me my money back
Give me my money back, you bitch
I want my money back
And don't forget
And don't forget to give me back my black T-Shirt
Hey, hey!

So you wanted to take a break
Slow it down some, and have some space

Give me my money back
Give me my money back, you bitch
I want my money back
I want my money back
And don't forget


5.Selfless, Cold, and Composed

I said what you wanted to hear
And what I wanted to say
So I will take it back
And all of the dishes intact?
Let them be broken, broken

It's easy to be
Easy and free
When it doesn't mean anything
You remain selfless, cold and composed

You've done me no favor
To call and be nice
Telling me I
Can take anything I like
You don't owe me to be so polite
You've done no wrong
You've done no wrong
Get out of my sight

It's easy to be
Easy and free
When it doesn't mean anything
To remain selfless, cold and composed

Come on baby, now throw me a right to the chin
Don't just stare like you never cared
I know you did
You just smiled like a bank teller
Blankly telling me
Have a nice life

Come on baby now throw me a right to the chin
Just one sign that could show me that you give a shit
But you just smile politely
And I grow weaker and I
Said what you wanted to hear
And what I wanted to say
So I will take it back

It's easy to be
Easy and free
When it doesn't mean anything
It doesn't mean anything
You can take anything
You can take anything
You're so selfless, cold,
so selfless, cold,
so selfless, cold,
and composed


6.Kate

She plays Wipeout on the drums
The squirrels and the birds come
Gather round to sing the guitar
Oh I...Have you got nothing to say?

When all words fail she speaks
Her mix tape's a masterpiece
Walks through the garden
So the roses can see
Oh I...Have you got nothing to say?

And you can see the daisies in her footsteps
Dandelions, butterflies
I wanna be Kate
Kate...Kate...Kate

Everyday she wears the same thing
I think she smokes pot
She's everything I want
She's everything I'm not
Oh I...Have you got nothing to say?

She never gets wet
She smiles and it's a rainbow
And she speaks
And she breathes
I wanna be Kate

Down by Rosemary and Cameron
She hands out the Bhagavad Gita
I see her around every couple days
I wanna meet her so I can say...hey Kate

ooh la la la
ooh la la la
ooh la la la la

She never gets wet
She smiles and it's a rainbow
You can see
I wanna wanna wanna be Kate
Kate...Kate...Kate
Na Na Kate
Kate...Kate...Kate
Na Na Na Na Na Na


7.Smoke

Leaf by leaf and page by page
throw this book away
All the sadness all the rage
throw this book away

Rip out the binding and tear the glue
And all of the grief we never even knew
we had it all along

Now it's smoke

The things we've written in it
Never really happened
All the things we've written in it
Never really happened
And all of the people come and gone
Never really lived
And all the people come have gone
No one to forgive
Smoke

We will not write a new one
There will not be a new one
Another one
Another one

Here's an evening dark with shame
Throw it on the fire
Here's the time I took the blame
Throw it on the fire
Here is the time that we didn't speak
It seemed, for years and years
and here's the secret
No one will ever know
The reasons for the tears
They are smoke
Smoke
Smoke

We will not write a new one
There will not be a new one
Another one
Another one

Where do all the secrets live
They travel in the air
You can smell them when they burn
They travel

Those who say the past is not dead
Can stop and smell the smoke
You keep saying the past is not dead
Well stop and smell the smoke
You keep on saying the past is not even past
And you keep saying
We are smoke
Smoke
Smoke


8.Cigarette

Fred Jones was worn out
from caring for his often
screaming and crying wife during the day but
he couldn't sleep at night for fear that she,
in a stupor from the drugs that didn't ease the pain,
would set the house ablaze
with a cigarette.


9.Steven's Last Night In Town

Everyone gather round now, sing us a song
Just in case by tomorrow it happens he's gone
For two weeks and seven days our fair foreign friend
I have this feeling we might never see Steven again

But we thought he was gone
And now he's come back again
Last week it was funny
And now the joke's wearing thin
'Cause everyone knows now, that every night now
Will be Steven's last night in town

He's charmed everyone here, except Tamara Easter
Who later revealed to him her innermost secrets
Won us over with stories about Linda McCartney
Lost points with the ladies for saying he couldn't
Love a woman with cellulite

But we thought he was gone, and now he's come back again
Last week it was funny, and now the joke's wearing thin
'Cause everyone knows now, that every night now
Will be Steven's last night in town

We were talking 'bout something, seems like was funny
And then Steven got quiet, I think Steven was mad
Maybe he wasn't mad, but we felt very strange
In the moment, but the moment was passed
And forgotten about

We thought he was gone, but he's come back again
Last week it was funny, and now the joke's wearing thin
'Cause everyone knows now, that every night now
Will be Steven's last night in town.


10.Battle Of Who Could Care Less

Do Do Do Do-Do Do
Do Do-Do Do, Do Do-Do Do
Do Do Do Do-Do Do
Do Do-Do Do, Do Do-Do Do

Do you not hear me anymore
I know it's not your thing to care
I know it's cool to be so bored
Sucks me in when you're aloof
It sucks me in, it sucks it works
I guess it's cool to be alone

Will you never rest
Fighting the battle of who could care less
Everyday you wake up late
Sometimes I wish I was
That way

Do Do Do Do-Do Do
Do Do-Do Do, Do Do-Do Do

And you think Rockford Files is cool
But there are some things
that you would change
if it were up to you
So think about your masterpiece
Watch the Rockford Files
Call to see if Paul can score some weed

Do you never rest
Fighting the battle of who could care less
Unearned unhappiness
Well that's all right I guess

Do Do Do-Do-Do-Do Do Do Do
Do Do Do-Do-Do-Do Do Do Do

I've got this great idea
Why don't we pitch it to the Franklin fuckin' Mint
Fine pewter portraits of General Apathy
And Major Boredom singing
Whatever and ever amen

Oh well, maybe not, I'll try again

Well this should cheer you up for sure
See I've got your old ID
And you're all dressed up like The Cure

You never rest
Fighting the battle of who could care less
Unearned unhappiness
You're my hero I confess


11.Missing The War

All is quiet, his tired eyes
See figures jotted down
and clothes all strewn around the bedroom floor

Now nothing's adding up
and nothing's making sense
She's sleeping like a baby
She doesn't know he wasn't meant for this

I'm missing the war
I'm missing the war all night
Missing the war
I'm missing the war

He drove home again
Pissed and beaten
It's really no big deal
It happens all the time
It's no big deal

I'm missing the war
I'm missing the war all night
Missing the war
I'm missing the war
'Til beads of sunlight hit me in the morning

So much time so little to say

Time may fly, and dreams may die
The shaking voice that tells him go
Still thinks he might
He knows he won't

I'm missing the war
I'm missing the war all night
Missing the war
I'm missing the war
Missing the war
Missing the war


12.Evaporated

What I've kept with me
and what I've thrown away
And where the hell I've ended up
On this glary, random day
Were the things I really cared about
just left along the way
For being too pent up and proud

Woke up way too late
feeling hungover and old
And the sun was shining bright
and I walked barefoot down the road

Started thinking 'bout my old man
It seems that all men want to get into a car and go
anywhere

Here I stand
Sad and free
I can't cry
I can't see
What I've done
Oh God what have I done?

Don't you know I'm numb, man
No I can't feel a thing at all
'Cause it's all smiles and business these days
And I'm indifferent to the loss

And I think that there's a soul somewhere
that's leading me around
I wonder if she knows which way is down

Here I stand
Sad and free
I can't cry
and I can't see
What I've done
Oh God what have I done?
Ooh

I poured my heart out
I poured my heart out
It evaporated - see?

Blind man on a canyon's edge
Of a panoramic scene
Maybe I'm a kite that's flying high and random
Dangling on a string
Or slumped over in a vacant room
Head on a stranger's knee
I'm sure back home
They think I've lost my mind

Here I stand - sad and free
I can't cry and I can't see
What I've done
Oh God what have I done