Ben Folds Five(1994-2000) was a three-member band formed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, who until their breakup in 2000 were a mainstay of piano rock. Much of their work was influenced by jazz, evident in frequent improv-styled passages through bridge and/or ending. The members of the band were: Ben Folds, the lead singer and pianist, who also wrote most of the songs; Robert Sledgeon bass and Darren Jesseeon drums. The group enjoyed the success of the single Brickin 1998, a ballad written by Folds (with a chorus by Jessee) about his high school girlfriend getting an abortion. This song has, to a large degree, misrepresented the band to fans who aren't familiar with their other work; "Brick" is a serious ballad, whereas most of their music is characterised by jazz inflections and witty, humorous lyrics.
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Ben Folds Five
Running my mouth
Ran up a tab and all the way back to kalamazoo
All the way back home
I was surely stoned, now Im sober in my yard
Can you believe I was there?
Can you believe Ive been anywhere else?
There was a time, almost forgot, we had been drifting all the way to kalamazoo
And I said that I loved you too
All the way back home
Theres a little joke, I just made up
How many of me would it take to screw up your life?
One to settle down, one to turn you around
Now Im sober in my yard
I would say you had to be there, now I regret that youre still there
Seems like youve been frozen, frozen there in time
Waving your goodbyes
Up to the sky
You place on the map has faded away
Used to be lost in more than one way
Kalamazoo, dont you know that Ive been there too
And itd put your mind more at ease
If youd say those words of release
All the way back home