Evaporated

 artist:  Ben Folds Five
 
 song:    Evaporated
 
 album:   Whatever and Ever, Amen
 
 trans.:  Brent Ritchey (mxpx281@hotmail.com)
 
 
 
 (the whole song has a fourth running through
 
 it in the right hand.  I think Ben might
 
 be using two pianos on this song.  Instead of
 
 an F chord it's really C and F at middle C.)
 
 
 
 INTRO
 
 F  F/A  F/Bb 
 
 F  F/A  F/Bb
 
 
 
 VERSE 1
 
 F                     F/A  
   What I've kept with me
 
     F/Bb                  /C
 
 And what I've thrown away
 
     F                     F/A  
 And where the hell I've ended up
 
         F/A              
 On this glary, random day
 
 /B   /C  F/D                F/G
 
 Were the things I really cared about
 
      F/C             F   
 just left along the way
 
     F/Bb             
 
 For being too pent up and proud
 
 
 
 VERSE 2
 
 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
 
 F/A   F/Bb
 
 any - where
 
 
 
 CHORUS
 
        Bbadd2  Cadd4       Cadd4/E      F
 
 Here I stand         sad and       free
 
         Bbadd2  Cadd4       Cadd4/D  /D  /D#  
 
 I can't  cry          I can't see
 
 Cadd4/E           Bbadd2     Cadd4
 
         What I've       done
 
    Cadd4/D  Dm7/A  F/Bb   F/A   
 
 Oh God what have I done?
 
 
 
 PIANO INTERLUDE
 
 F  F/A  F/Bb  (riff 1) 
 
 F  F/A  F/Bb  (riff 2)   
 
 
 
 VERSE 3
 
 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
 
 I think that there's a soul somewhere
 
 that's leading me around
 
 I wonder if she knows which way is down
 
 
 
 CHORUS
 
 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?
 
 
 
 Abdim7  C  Csus4  C
 
 
 
 BRIDGE
 
 Bb                    C  F  Bb  
 I poured my heart out
 
 C                     Bb/F  
 I poured my heart out
 
    F    F/A   F/Bb
 
 It evaporated      see?
 
 
 
 F  F/A  F/Bb
 
 
 
 VERSE 4
 
 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
 
     F/Bb 
 
 I'm sure back home they think I've lost my mind
 
 
 
 CHORUS
 
 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?
 
 
 
 F  F/A  F/Bb  (riff 1)
 
 F  F/A  F/Bb  (riff 2)
 
 F  F/A  F/Bb  (riff 1)
 
 F  F/A  (riff 3) F/Bb
 
 
 
 **RIFFS**
 
 riff 1: (octave + 3rd above middle C)
 
 E-E-F-C-Bb-A
 
 riff 2: (sixth above middle C)
 
 A-A-Bb-G-F-E
 
 riff 3: (fifth above middle C)
 
 G-A-F