DO IT ANYWAY

According to the Do It Anyway Songfacts there were two inspirations for this song - the birthday cards that Ben Folds mom used to give him and the response from the member of the crowd to how he introduced a ballad he was about to play. "OKAY! Let's try once again. Have an unmastered track from the new Ben Folds Five album. It's called "Do It Anyway". The intensity of the track is typical of the rest of the album, but each song is quite different. That always was the way with our records I suppose. We're nearly done and I think it's a cracker. http://bit.ly/IR7qg1 Posting this track, preaching to our online choir along with a few select interviews - I'm thinking Nerdist - will be the extent of the album promotion for the run up to the September release. I realize that it's a luxury for us to promote only to fans. We've had the help of labels for years which gave us a leg up. The years of traditional promotion, soul draining as they might have been, affords us that luxury now. A start up band cannot easily do it this way. Our intention is not to 'stick it to the man'. He's quite stuck enough. We don't care to create a new model. We're just doing it the way it feels best this time around and quite honestly, making it up as we go along. Please consider joining our label as Vice President of Promotion - There's unlimited room for vices. We'll credit you each in the LP vinyl album art somehow and if it won't all fit then we'll make poster art of names. I recall being very excited to have had my name put on a knife in a glass case at a restaurant for being a frequent customer. I am one of many but I still beam with pride to point it out. Once had a star named after me too. I'm a sucker for that kind of stuff. I digress... As Vice President of Promotion, all you have to do is put up with my tweeting and facebooking in the run up to the release, and recycle and retweet as much as you can deal with. I'll run ideas past you all, feel free to chime in. We're not signed at the moment. We may sign a distribution deal or even a record deal if it all coincides with the way we want to work. Or not. We're chewing over plans. In any event, we'll go ahead and put the album on pre-sale soon ourselves and tweet like the wind. We just need everyone to spread the word up to the release and put up with a few extra transmissions from me. I've got some more long winded blogging to do anyway. Happy Friday, or maybe Saturday Morning."

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 [Hook] 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 So you, do it anyway 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 Do it anyway Be honest, anyway [Hook] Yeah yeah yeah yeah Woah woah woah woah 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 But still Surrender anyway [Hook 2] 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 Yeah yeah yeah yeah Woah woah woah woah 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!