Philosophy (iTunes Originals Version) - Ben Folds

Won’t you look up at the skyline

At the mortar block and glass

And check out the reflections in my eyes

You see they always used to be there

Even when this all was grass

And I sang and danced about a high-rise

And you were laughing at my helmet hat

Laughing at my torch

You go ahead, you can laugh all you want

I got my philosophy, keeps my feet on the ground

And I trust it like the ground

And that’s why my philosophy

It keeps me walking when I’m falling down

I see that there is evil

And I know that there is good

And the inbetweens I never understood

Won’t you look at me, I’m crazy?

But I get the job done

Yeah, I’m crazy but I get the job done

And I say, "Go ahead, you can laugh all you want

But I got my philosophy, keeps my feet on the ground

And I trust it like the ground

And that’s why my philosophy

It keeps me walking when I’m falling down"

I pushed you ’cause I loved you guys

I didn’t realize you weren’t having fun

I dragged you up the stairs and I told you to fly

You were flapping your arms, you started to cry

You were too high, oh too high

You may take this all for granted

You take the mortar, block and glass

And you forget the speech that moved the stone

But it’s really not that you can’t see

The forest for the trees

You’ve never been out in the woods alone

So you can laugh all you want to

I got my philosophy

Keeps my feet on the ground

And I love you, you’re my friend

But you got no philosophy

Now it’s time for this song to end