HOLD THAT THOUGHT by BEN FOLDS FIVE From the album THE SOUND OF THE LIFE OF THE MIND (2012) [INTRO] F#sus2maj7 [VERSE 1] F# B She broke down and cried at the strip mall acupuncturist F# While the world went on outside F# The Chinese doctor took her arm B F# Gazed at the floor, and read her wrist for the secrets in her mind [CHORUS 1] G#m "Here's your medicine," she said B F# "If you not smile at him, then someone else will" G#m You hold that thought B F# And I'll hold that thought too C# B F# Ooooooh - ooooh C# B A G Ooooooh - ooooh [VERSE 2] F# B I was shown the 36 ways I'm not available F# On a simple easy chart F# B Later on that evening on the beach in Santa Monica F# It was a very risky start [CHORUS 2] G#m Suppose this stupid chart is right B F# In a year will you still feel the same way? G#m Well, you hold that thought B F# And I'll hold that thought too C# B F# Ooooooh - ooooh C# B A G Ooooooh - ooooh [BRIDGE] F#sus2maj7 F#sus4 Ah C# Ah [VERSE 3] B Did you ever see the film where a man who's given spectacles F# That make the world look upside down? F# B He falls about the place, but in time he somehow readjusts G#m And when they take the glasses off B F# The eyes he's always had see sky below him and he falls again [CHORUS 3] G#m Well, you hold that thought B And I'll hold that thought G#m You hold that thought B And I'll hold that thought G#m You hold that thought B And I'll hold that thought (bass notes under F#) F# G# A# F# A# C# repeat [OUTRO] C# B A G F#maj7 Ooooooh - ooooh