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
This song is based around a rather cryptic recording left on Ben Folds' answering machine by his father, Dean.
Dean took the song in good humour. He was half-asleep and didn’t remember leaving a message.
In his book “A Dream About Lightening Bugs”, Ben explains (referring to his father’s mental st...
(6:49am, Friday November 20th.)
Good morning Mr Ben
It's, er, about 6:30
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Erm
Just lying here in the bed, half-awake, half-asleep
Thinkin' about you
I was er
Wondering if you were looking after your
Most valuable possession
Your mind
(sigh)
I was thinking about
John Glenn
His space journey, y'know
He said that when you're in space you lose, uh, muscle mass
Body mass, and
I wondered if there was any
End to it
Or whether if you did some exercise in space
How long it would be before you were just
A head, or a mind
Have no body or arm
You'd have 'em but you couldn't use 'em
And I was wondering if, uh
Your body mass would drop to a certain level
And then it would stop right there
Er, keep whatever you needed to use your mind
Because it would be working
Thirty seconds remain
Anyway, I was just ponderin' that
What do you think about...?
Hope everything is going alright
I may wake up here in a little while
Forget what I was thinkin' about
Your Most Valuable Possession was written by Robert Sledge & Darren Jessee & Caleb Southern & Ben Folds.
Your Most Valuable Possession was produced by Andy Wallace & Caleb Southern.
Ben Folds Five released Your Most Valuable Possession on Tue Apr 27 1999.