The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind Lyrics - The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind - Ben Folds Five

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, Glenn 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