Biography:
Ben Rector (born November 6, 1986) is a singer/songwriter from Tulsa, Oklahoma, US now based in Nashville, Tennessee. Rector’s stylistic influences include pop, rock, and folk music.
Rector took piano lessons as a small child but did not begin playing music seriously until he picked up the guitar in high school. He began writing songs in tenth grade and formed a band called Euromart the following year. Euromart made an EP and played club shows in Tulsa, but dissolved when the members left for college.
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Other songs:
- Brand New
- Dance With Me Baby
- Beautiful
- Forever Like That
- Sailboat
- When A Heart Breaks
- 30000 Feet
- After All
- Almost Home
- And Then You Love Someone
- Associated
- Autumn
- Boxes
- Crazy
- Do You Believe In Love
- Drive
- Duo
- Early Morning Riser
- Extraordinary Magic
- Falling In Love
- Favorite Song
- Fear
- Follow You
- Green
- Hank
- Hide Away
- I Like You
- I Thank God I Miss You
- I Wanna Dance With Somebody
- I Will Always Be Yours
- If You Can Hear Me
- Im Okay
- Kids
- Let The Good Times Roll
- Life Keeps Movin On
- Like The World Is Going To End
- Love Like This
- Loving You Is Easy
- Magic
- Making Money
- More Like Love
- Moving Backwards
- Need You Tonight
- Never Gonna Let You Go
- Note To Self
- Old Friends
- Ordinary Love
- Over And Over
- Peace
- She Is
- Sometimes
- Song For The Suburbs
- Summer Candy
- Thank God For The Summertime
- The Beat
- The Feeling
- The Kill
- The Men That Drive Me Places
- The Sophomore
- Twenty Tomorrow
- When Im With You
- When She Comes Around
- Wherever You Are
- White Dress
- Wildfire
- You And Me
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Intro: C Am C F C G C
[Verse 1]
C F C
14A, window seat, tennis shoes and faded jeans.
C F C
Nervous as he tells me it's his first time on a plane.
C F C
We took off and headed East, I was thumbing through the magazines.
C F C G
He felt like talking and offered me his name.
G F C G
SO I asked him how he was
G F C Dm
And he smiled and said, Well son,
[Chorus]
F C
I've been better, I've been worse
Am G
I've chased after pretty girls
F C Dm
Seen a couple places that I never though I't see
F C G Am
I've walked into harder times, and I've walked out the other side
F C F
It seems like you end up getting what you need
F C F C
Yeah, looking down from 30,000 feet, life's been good to me
C Am C F C G C
[Verse 2]
C F C
I've been out a month or so, another night, another show
C F C G
One hundred different cities, they all just seem the same
C F C
He asked me what it must be like, singing songs under the lights
C F C G
Well, it's got its moments, just the same as anything
[Chorus]
G C
I miss my town, I miss my wife
F C Dm
But I'm up here with you tonight
F C
I've been better, I've been worse
Am G
I have loved a pretty girl
F C Dm
Seen a couple places that I never though I't see
F C G Am
I've walked into harder times, and I've walked out the other side
F C F
IT seems like you end up getting what you need
F C F C
Yeah, looking down from 30,000 feet, life's been good to me
C Am C F C G C
Good to me
[Bridge]
F Am F C
Sometimes we can get lost living in the here and now
F C Am Bb G F
Sometimes it takes the sky to see what's on the ground
C, Am, C, F, C, G, C
[Chorus]
F C
I've been better, I've been worse
Am G
I've chased after pretty girls
F C Dm
Seen a couple places that I never though I't see
F C G Am
I've walked into harder times, and I've walked out the other side
F C F
IT seems like you end up getting what you need
F C F C
Yeah, looking down from 30,000 feet, life's been good to me
C Am C F C G C
[Outro]
[Verse 1]
C F C
14A, window seat, tennis shoes and faded jeans.
C F C
Nervous as he tells me it's his first time on a plane.
C F C
We took off and headed East, I was thumbing through the magazines.
C F C G
He felt like talking and offered me his name.
G F C G
SO I asked him how he was
G F C Dm
And he smiled and said, Well son,
[Chorus]
F C
I've been better, I've been worse
Am G
I've chased after pretty girls
F C Dm
Seen a couple places that I never though I't see
F C G Am
I've walked into harder times, and I've walked out the other side
F C F
It seems like you end up getting what you need
F C F C
Yeah, looking down from 30,000 feet, life's been good to me
C Am C F C G C
[Verse 2]
C F C
I've been out a month or so, another night, another show
C F C G
One hundred different cities, they all just seem the same
C F C
He asked me what it must be like, singing songs under the lights
C F C G
Well, it's got its moments, just the same as anything
[Chorus]
G C
I miss my town, I miss my wife
F C Dm
But I'm up here with you tonight
F C
I've been better, I've been worse
Am G
I have loved a pretty girl
F C Dm
Seen a couple places that I never though I't see
F C G Am
I've walked into harder times, and I've walked out the other side
F C F
IT seems like you end up getting what you need
F C F C
Yeah, looking down from 30,000 feet, life's been good to me
C Am C F C G C
Good to me
[Bridge]
F Am F C
Sometimes we can get lost living in the here and now
F C Am Bb G F
Sometimes it takes the sky to see what's on the ground
C, Am, C, F, C, G, C
[Chorus]
F C
I've been better, I've been worse
Am G
I've chased after pretty girls
F C Dm
Seen a couple places that I never though I't see
F C G Am
I've walked into harder times, and I've walked out the other side
F C F
IT seems like you end up getting what you need
F C F C
Yeah, looking down from 30,000 feet, life's been good to me
C Am C F C G C
[Outro]
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