Ben Folds Five
Ben Folds Five
Ben Folds Five
Ben Folds Five
Ben Folds Five
Ben Folds Five
Ben Folds Five
Ben Folds Five
Ben Folds Five
Ben Folds Five
Ben Folds Five
Ben Folds Five
Ben Folds Five
[Verse 1]
He shouted out his last word
And he stumbled through the yard
And she shattered her last china plate
And spun off in the car
[Verse 2]
When he lunged onto the hood
She stopped to tell him she'd been wrong
He was thrown head over heels
Into the traffic coming on
[Pre-Chorus]
But then all is fair
All is fair in love
[Chorus]
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[Verse 3]
Did you get my other letters
Sometimes I think I oughta call
'Cause you know I often wonder
If you open them at all
[Verse 4]
Every couple nights or so
You know you pop into my dreams
I just can't get rid of you
Like you got rid of me
Oh, but I send my best
'Cause God knows you've seen my worst
[Pre-Chorus]
Yeah well, all is fair
All is fair in love
[Chorus]
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Ah, ah, ah
[Bridge]
All this breathing in, never breathing out
All this breathing in, never breathing out
All this breathing in, never breathing out
[Verse 5]
Well, I guess she made her way
Through the mob too late to hear him say
That he'd gotten all he'd wanted
A crowd to watch him bear the pain
He'd been keeping in
(So what) So what
[Pre-Chorus]
All is fair
All is fair in love
Yeah well, all is fair
All is fair in love
[Chorus]
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[Outro]
Am I right?
Am I right?
Not only am I right
I'm lonely and I'm right
Yeah
Fair was written by Ben Folds.
Fair was produced by Caleb Southern & Ben Folds.
Ben Folds Five released Fair on Tue Mar 18 1997.
That came from a newspaper article, note for note pretty much. It was a domestic dispute in a yard: a guy runs after his wife, she hops in the car to take off and runs over his ass.
Ben in an interview with People Magazine.