Basic Being Basic - Djo, ukulele chords

Published: 2025-01-28 11:39
Selection chords: Katie Paterson

Verse:
C         Em      F
  Get food, barely eat
C                        Em         F   Em
  Every bite just kept me glued to my seat
C          Em    F
  I worried, even cried
Am                          Am           B    G
   Howʼd it feel to take the light from my life?
C          Em    F
  Bad habit, even worse
C                   Em         F   Em
  Fifty-fifty, I’m a sucker for looks
C             Em       F
  Asked for it, here it is
Am                         Am        B
   A quick example ʼcause you wanted the hits

Chorus:
               C                    Em F
I think youʼre scared of being basic
C                           Em                  F
   That’s ironic ʼcause itʼs reading like youʼre even more
C     Em F
  Basic
Am                           C
   Itʼs not funny, itʼs so funny
             C     Em F
ʼCause youʼre basic
             C                           Em      F
Just looking hot and keeping monotone and understated
                C           Em                   F
Nothingness won’t change it (Good luck with that, good luck with what?)
Am                        Am B     G
   It’s not funny, but itʼs so funny

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

Chorus:
C           Em            F
  How basic (Sell me on it)
        C                                  Em                 F
Shuffle numbers, pointing fingers, ditching chats in different apps
      C           Em F
Thatʼs basic (Haha)
Am                          Bm
  Itʼs not funny, itʼs so funny
            C                 Em       F
Thatʼs just basic being basic   (Basically)
C                               Em            F
  You said he looked just like a girl, so you like girls
            C       Em F
I guess Iʼll take it
Am                              Bm
Yeah, thatʼs funny, youʼre so funny (Ha-ha-ha-ha)

Bridge:
C
Change your body, change your face,
Em             F
curl your hair then make it straight
C                            Em     F
Take a picture of your plate, Tarantino movie taste
C                     Em       F
Rah-rah, cheugy-phobe, Vera Bradleyʼs back in Vogue
Am
   Itʼs a flash photograph

Outro:
Am        Em         C
What an empty epitaph that is (Thatʼs basic)
Em         F         C
What an empty epitaph that is (Thatʼs basic)
Em         F                      C
What an empty epitaph (Thatʼs just basic being basic)
      Em            F
Yeah, my tight five might get a laugh as is
Am
If thatʼs funny, Iʼm not funny