Verse 1:
CbBmCb
Get food, barely eat
CbBmCb (Bm)
Every bite just kept me glued to my seat
CbBmCb
I worried, even cried
FbmFbmG (Gb)
How'd it feel to take the light from my life?
CbBmCb
Bad habit, even worse
CbBmCb (Bm)
Fifty-fifty, I’m a sucker for looks
CbBmCb
Asked for it, here it is
FbmFbmGA quick example 'cause you wanted the hits
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Chorus:
CbBmCb
I think you're scared of being basic
CbBmCb
That’s ironic 'cause it's reading like you're even more
CbBmCb
Basic
FbmCb
It's not funny, it's so funny
CbBmCb
'Cause you're basic
CbBmCb
Just looking hot and keeping monotone and understated
CbBmCb
Nothingness won’t change it (Good luck with that, good luck with what)
FbmFbmG (Gb)
It’s not funny, but it's so funny
Verse 2:
Cb
I don’t want your money, I don't care for fame
Cb
I don't wanna live a life where that's my big exchange
CbBmCb
I want simple pleasures, friends who have my back
FbmBmCb
Everyone has secrets, but not everyone can fool a man like that
CbCb
It sent me reeling, still not the same
Cb
It’s like my capacity to love and give has changed
Cb
I guess I'll thank you and spite your name again
FbmBmCb
The past's the past, and I'll outlast the hate to find real love that's not pre-tend
Chorus:
CbBmCb
How basic (Sell me on it)
CbBmCb
Shuffle numbers, pointing fingers, ditching chats in different apps
CbBmCb
That's basic (Haha)
FbmGm
It's not funny, it's so funny
CbBmCb
That's just basic being basic (Basically)
CbBmCb
You said he looked just like a girl, so you like girls
CbBmCb
I guess I'll take it
FbmGm
Yeah, that's funny, you're so funny (Ha-ha-ha-ha)
Bridge:
Cb
Change your body, change your face,
BmCb
curl your hair then make it straight
CbBmCb
Take a picture of your plate, Tarantino movie taste
CbBmCb
Rah-rah, cheugy-phobe, Vera Bradley's back in Vogue
Fbm
It's a flash photograph
Outro:FbmBmCb
What an empty epitaph that is (That's basic)
BmCbCb
What an empty epitaph that is (That's basic)
BmCbCb
What an empty epitaph (That's just basic being basic)
BmCb
Yeah, my tight five might get a laugh as is
Fbm N.C.
If that's funny, I'm not funny
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