Basic Being Basic chords

Basic Being Basic

• Verse 1

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Verse 1
Db         Fm      Gb
  Get food, barely eat
Db                        Fm         Gb   (Fm)
  Every bite just kept me glued to my seat
Db          Fm    Gb
  I worried, even cried
Bbm                          Bbm           C    (Ab)
   How'd it feel to take the light from my life?
Db          Fm    Gb
  Bad habit, even worse
Db                   Fm         Gb   (Fm)
  Fifty-fifty, I’m a sucker for looks
Db             Fm       Gb
  Asked for it, here it is
Bbm                         Bbm        C
   A quick example 'cause you wanted the hits

Chorus
               Db                    Fm Gb
I think you're scared of being basic
Db                           Fm                  Gb
   That’s ironic 'cause it's reading like you're even more
Db     Fm Gb
  Basic
Bbm                           Db
   It's not funny, it's so funny
             Db     Fm Gb
'Cause you're basic
             Db                           Fm      Gb
Just looking hot and keeping monotone and understated
                Db           Fm                   Gb
Nothingness won’t change it (Good luck with that, good luck with what?)
Bbm                        Bbm C     (Ab)
   It’s not funny, but it's so funny


Verse 2
Db
I don’t want your money, I don't care for fame
Db
  I don't wanna live a life where that's my big exchange
Db                         Fm               Gb
  I want simple pleasures, friends who have my back
Bbm                                         Fm              Db
 Everyone has secrets, but not everyone can fool a man like that
Db                                    Gb
  It sent me reeling, still not the same
Db
  It’s like my capacity to love and give has changed
Db
  I guess I'll thank you and spite your name again
Bbm                                         Fm                                    Db
  The past's the past, and I'll outlast the hate to find real love that's not pre-tend

Chorus
Db           Fm            Gb
  How basic (Sell me on it)
        Db                                  Fm                 Gb
Shuffle numbers, pointing fingers, ditching chats in different apps
      Db           Fm Gb
That's basic (Haha)
Bbm                          Cm
  It's not funny, it's so funny
            Db                 Fm       Gb
That's just basic being basic   (Basically)
Db                               Fm            Gb
  You said he looked just like a girl, so you like girls
            Db       Fm Gb
I guess I'll take it
Bbm                              Cm
Yeah, that's funny, you're so funny (Ha-ha-ha-ha)

Bridge
Db
Change your body, change your face,
Fm             Gb
curl your hair then make it straight
Db                            Fm     Gb
Take a picture of your plate, Tarantino movie taste
Db                     Fm       Gb
Rah-rah, cheugy-phobe, Vera Bradley's back in Vogue
Bbm
   It's a flash photograph

Outro
Bbm        Fm         Db
What an empty epitaph that is (That's basic)
Fm         Gb         Db
What an empty epitaph that is (That's basic)
Fm         Gb                      Db
What an empty epitaph (That's just basic being basic)
      Fm            Gb
Yeah, my tight five might get a laugh as is
Bbm              N.C.
If that's funny, I'm not funny

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