Ben Folds Five - The Sound of the Life of the Mind (Lyrics) video free download

Track 4 on the Ben Folds Five Album 'The Sound of the Life of the Mind'.

This album is due to be released on the 18th September 2012.

This song was written by the British author Nick Hornby.

Nick Hornby and Ben Folds also collaborated to make the album 'Lonely Avenue' in 2011.

Lyrics- (metrolyrics.com)

Apehead's brother wants to beat up Paul

The boys have gone to watch

Some of the girls are down at the mall

Justine's got cherry cola and scotch

Later on it's everyone around to Beck's

Her parents are away in New York

Sara well, she just can't bear

The stupidity, the boredom, the grind

She stays at school so that she can hear

The sound of the life of the mind

.

And it's noisy up there

It rocks me like a mother

Rosa Parks and DNA

Joan of Arc and JFK

But it's noisy up there

(Noisy up there)

It rocks me like a mother

.

Oh, ohh, oh, ohh

Oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh

.

She's cut 'em all out of her social circle

Won't introduce them to Lincoln or Frost

Doesn't want to let them get to know Keats or Studs Terkel

They'll never know what they have lost

But Sara well, she just can't bear

The stupidity, the boredom, the grind

She stays at school so that she can hear

The sound of the life of the mind

.

And it's noisy up there

(Noisy up there)

It rocks me like a mother

Copernicus and Fortune's Wheel

Plato, Glen Gould and the New Deal

And it's noisy up there

(Noisy up there)

It rocks me like a mother

.

Sara already knows pretty soon she'll be leaving

Well, she's hoovered up whatever she can find

But she doesn't want to hear about

Pregnancies, foam fights, TV, take-outs, have sex, weddings

The sound of the life she'll leave behind

.

Yeah, it's noisy up there

(Noisy up there)

It rocks me like a mother

Oh, ohh, oh, ohh

Oh, oh, oh

And it's noisy up there

(Noisy up there)

It rocks me like a mother

Oh, ohh, oh, ohh

Oh, oh, oh