Basket Case chords by Sara Bareilles

Chords with lyrics

A augmentedA Gsus2Gsus2 D MajorD A augmentedA Gsus2Gsus2 D MajorD

VERSE
 A augmentedA       Gsus2Gsus2       D MajorD
I don't want to talk about it to you

    A augmentedA            Gsus2Gsus2   D MajorD
I'm not an open book that you can rifle through

  A augmentedA              Bm7Bm7    Gsus2Gsus2 E minor 7Em7
The cold hard truth that you'll see right to

      D MajorD     A augmentedA      Gsus2Gsus2
I'm just a basket case without you

      A augmentedA       Gsus2Gsus2  D MajorD
He's not a magic man or a perfect fit

     A augmentedA           Gsus2Gsus2  D MajorD
But had a steady hand and I got used to it

   A augmentedA          Bm7Bm7     Gsus2Gsus2 E minor 7Em7
And a glass cage heart and invited me in

          D MajorD     A augmentedA      Gsus2Gsus2
And now I'm just a basket case without him

CHORUS
D MajorD          Gsus2Gsus2
You're begging for the truth

G minorGm          D MajorD (G/DG/D A/D)
So I'm saying it to you

           Gsus2Gsus2
I've been saving your place

     G minorGm
And what good does it do

        D MajorD      A augmentedA Gsus2Gsus2
Now I'm just a basket case

        D MajorD      A augmentedA Gsus2Gsus2
Now I'm just a basket case

VERSE
 A augmentedA            Gsus2Gsus2    D MajorD
I don't say much and it'll stay that way

     A augmentedA                 Gsus2Gsus2    D MajorD
You got a steel train touch and I'm just a track you lay

    A augmentedA        Bm7Bm7    Gsus2Gsus2 E minor 7Em7
So I'll stay right here underneath you

      D MajorD       A augmentedA         Gsus2Gsus2
I'm just a basket case and that's what we do

CHORUS
D MajorD           Gsus2Gsus2
You're begging for the truth

G minorGm          D MajorD (G/DG/D A/D)
So I'm saying it to you

D MajorD            Gsus2Gsus2
I've been saving your place

     G minorGm
And what good does it do

        D MajorD     A augmentedA Gsus2Gsus2
Now I'm just a basket case

BRIDGE
        D MajorD
Won't somebody come on in and tug at my seams

       A augmentedA
Oh send your armies in of robbers and thieves

       B minorBm    Gsus2Gsus2  D/F#D/F#      Gsus2Gsus2 A augmentedA Bm7Bm7 A7/C#
To steal the state I'm in I don't want it anymore

CHORUS
D MajorD           Gsus2Gsus2
You're begging for the truth

G minorGm          D MajorD (G/DG/D A/D)
So I'm saying it to you

D MajorD           Gsus2Gsus2
I've been saving your place

     G minorGm
And what good does it do

        D MajorD      A augmentedA Gsus2Gsus2
Now I'm just a basket case

        D MajorD      A augmentedA Gsus2Gsus2
Now I'm just a basket case

        D MajorD      A augmentedA Gsus2Gsus2
Now I'm just a basket case

        D MajorD      A augmentedA Gsus2Gsus2
Now I'm just a basket case


NOTE:
These chords are simplifications of the actual voicings.
Here is a description of what the actual guitar voicings are:

1) The first strum of the A augmentedA major chord consists of the notes A augmentedA and E, but the
subsequent strums are voiced like this: A-D-A-C#-D (more like a DMaj7/A without an F#F#).
2) The Gsus2Gsus2 chord includes A augmentedA B; the voicing is approximately: G-D-A-B-D.
3) The E minor 7Em7 chord includes an A; the voicing is approx. E-B-G-A-D.

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