• Song:

    Basket Case

  • Artist:

    Sara Bareilles

  • Album:

    Kaleidoscope Heart

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INTRO
A Gsus2 D A Gsus2 D

VERSE
  A (x02220@1)           Gsus2 (3x0233@1)            D (xx0232@1)I don't want to talk about it to you

A (x02220@1)                      Gsus2 (3x0233@1)   D (xx0232@1)                             
I'm not an open book that you can rifle through

A (x02220@1)                         Bm7 (x20202@1)      Gsus2Em7 (3x0233@1)             
The cold hard truth that you'll see right to

D (xx0232@1)        A (x02220@1)         Gsus2 (3x0233@1)                        
I'm just a basket case without you

A (x02220@1)            Gsus2 (3x0233@1)  DHe's (xx0232@1)not a magic man or a perfect fit

A (x02220@1)                   Gsus2 (3x0233@1)  D (xx0232@1)   
But had a steady hand and I got used to it

A (x02220@1)                  Bm7 (x20202@1)       Gsus2Em7 (3x0233@1)  
And a glass cage heart and invited me in

D (xx0232@1)        A (x02220@1)         Gsus2And (3x0233@1)now I'm just a basket case without him

CHORUS
D (xx0232@1)                  Gsus2 (3x0233@1)                  
You're begging for the truth

Gm (355333@1)                  D(G/D (xx0232@1)A/D)                   
So I'm saying it to you

Gsus2 (3x0233@1)                
I've been saving your place

Gm (355333@1)                             
And what good does it do
 
               D (xx0232@1)         A (x02220@1)name="chord_3x0233@1">Gsus2
Now I'm just a basket case

D (xx0232@1)         A (x02220@1)name="chord_3x0233@1">Gsus2              
Now I'm just a basket case

VERSE
  A (x02220@1)                      Gsus2 (3x0233@1)      D (xx0232@1)
I don't say much and it'll stay that way

A (x02220@1)                               Gsus2 (3x0233@1)      DYou (xx0232@1)got a steel train touch and I'm just a track you lay

A (x02220@1)             Bm7 (x20202@1)      Gsus2Em7 (3x0233@1)    
So I'll stay right here underneath you

D (xx0232@1)           A (x02220@1)               Gsus2I'm (3x0233@1)just a basket case and that's what we do

CHORUS
D (xx0232@1)                   Gsus2 (3x0233@1)                 
You're begging for the truth

Gm (355333@1)                  D(G/D (xx0232@1)A/D)               
So I'm saying it to you

D (xx0232@1)                      Gsus2 (3x0233@1)              
I've been saving your place

Gm (355333@1)                             
And what good does it do

D (xx0232@1)        A (x02220@1)name="chord_3x0233@1">Gsus2               
Now I'm just a basket case

BRIDGE
               D (xx0232@1)                       
Won't somebody come on in and tug at my seams

A (x02220@1)                        
Oh send your armies in of robbers and thieves

Bm (x24432@1)      Gsus2 (3x0233@1) D/F# (200232@1)          Gsus2 (3x0233@1)name="chord_x02220@1">A Bm7 (x20202@1)name="chord_042020@1">A7/C#
To steal the state I'm in I don't want it anymore

CHORUS
D (xx0232@1)                   Gsus2 (3x0233@1)                 
You're begging for the truth

Gm (355333@1)                  D(G/D (xx0232@1)A/D)                 
So I'm saying it to you

D (xx0232@1)                   Gsus2 (3x0233@1)                
I've been saving your place

Gm (355333@1)                             
And what good does it do

D (xx0232@1)         A (x02220@1)name="chord_3x0233@1">Gsus2              
Now I'm just a basket case

D (xx0232@1)         A (x02220@1)name="chord_3x0233@1">Gsus2         
Now I'm just a basket case

D (xx0232@1)         A (x02220@1)name="chord_3x0233@1">Gsus2        
Now I'm just a basket case

D (xx0232@1)         A (x02220@1)name="chord_3x0233@1">Gsus2        
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 major chord consists of the notes A and E, but the 
subsequent strums are voiced like this: A-D-A-C#-D (more like a DMaj7/A without an F#).
2) The Gsus2 chord includes A B; the voicing is approximately: G-D-A-B-D.
3) The Em7 chord includes an A; the voicing is approx. E-B-G-A-D.
4) The Gm chord includes an A; the voicing is approx. G-D-A-Bb-D.
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