Djo – Basic Being Basic (Guitar)

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Chords

Chords in brackets are essentially played as upbeats, so can be ignored if desired. [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