Do It Anyway - Ben Folds Five

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Do It Anyway Lyrics

You might put your love and trust on the line
It's risky, people love to tear that down, let 'em try
Do it anyway
Risk it anyway
And if you're paralyzed by a voice in your head
It's the standing still that should be scaring you instead
Go on and do it anyway
Do it anyway
There will be times you might leap before you look
There'll be times you'll like the cover
And that's precisely why you'll love the book
Do it anyway, do it anyway
Tell me what I said I'd never do
Tell me what I said I'd never say
Read me off a list of the things
I used to not like, but now I think are okay
Sometimes it's not subjective: wrong and right
Deep down you know it's downright wrong but you're invincible tonight
It's done, you did it
Despite your grand attempts the chips are set to fall
And all the stories you might weave cannot negotiate them all
It's gonna be so very hard to say
And watch the trust and joy all drain from her innocent face
But you must do it anyway
It sucks, but do it anyway
Call it surrender but you know that that's a joke
And the punchline is you were actually never in control
Tell me what you said you'd never do
Tell me what you said you'd never say
Read me off that list of things cause I used to not like you
Now I think you're okay
Everybody knows that you just gotta do it anyway
Do it anyway (x8)
Cause you don't do nothing (Do it anyway)
To avoid self punishment (Do it anyway)
You won't do nothing (Do it anyway)
You won't feel nothing (Do it anyway)
Gotta do it (Do it anyway)
Do it, do it anyway (Do it anyway)
Ah (Do it anyway)
Do it anyway!

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Ben Folds Five is a trio formed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States in 1994, 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 are Ben Folds, the lead singer and pianist, who also wrote most of the songs; Robert Sledge on bass; and Darren Jessee on drums. The group enjoyed the success of the single Brick in 1997, 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.

After the band's not-so amicable breakup in October 2000 over Ben's over shadowing of Sledge and Jessee, Folds began a solo career. Robert Sledge's subsequent band International Orange has broken up, while Darren Jessee is the frontman for the band Hotel Lights.

Folds once described their music as "punk rock for pussies" - a reaction to the angst prevalent in 90s rock. When asked about his band's name he jokingly responded "you mean a trio isn't five?". In other interviews the band said that the name was simply because Ben Folds Five sounded better than Ben Folds Three.

Ben Folds has continued with producing music on his own, striking a subtler tone than Ben Folds Five's earlier recordings. His personal relationship with William Shatner has opened the doors for a great professional one. Ben Folds produced William Shatner's album Has Been and they have since worked together on The 'Over The Hedge' soundtrack.

On September 18, 2008 at the UNC Memorial Hall in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the band reunited for the first time in nearly 10 years for one special gig playing their critically acclaimed final album: The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner in its entirety.

The House Songfacts reports that the trio got together in 2011 to record three new Ben Folds Five songs for the compilation,The Best Imitation of Myself: A Retrospective.

Prior to the Ben Folds Five, Ben Folds was in the Greensboro, NC based band Majosha which beat "The Blind Mice" (among other bands) in a battle of the bands at Duke University in Durham NC in the late 80s. Blind Mice drummer Fred McIntyre and Ben Folds met years later in New Orleans where they discussed this incredibly important event.

It was announced in August 2011 that the band would reunite to record a new album in December 2011, although no word of a tour has yet been announced. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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