Sara Bareilles
Basket Case
Kaleidoscope Heart
2010
Submitted by: paramore_fans@yahoo.com

Key: 

Tuning: Drop D

Chords used: Drop D only
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Chords used: for Standard EADGBe
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Intro: ----- x2, --


Verse 1:
             
I don't want t

  
o talk 
            
about it to yo

u
    
I'm not an ope

n book 
             
that you can r

     
ifle through
    
The cold hard 

truth 
            
that you'll se

        
e right to
         
  I'm just bas

ket 
             
case without y

  
ou


Verse 2:
           
He's not a mag

ic man 
            
or a perfect f

it
           
But had a stea

dy hand 
             
and I got used

      
 to it
      
And a glass ca

ge 
            
heart and invi

       
ted me in

  And now I'm 

just a 
            
basket case wi

         
thout him


Chorus 1:
             
  You're beggi

           
ng for the tru

th
            
  So I'm sayin

           
g it to you
             
  I've been sa

          
ving your plac

e
         
And what good 


does it do?
              
Now I'm just a

            
 basket case
              
Now I'm just a

            
 basket case


Verse 3:
  
I don't say mu

ch and 
             
it'll stay tha

     
t way
        
You got a stee

l train touch 
              
and I'm just a

             
 track you lay
             
So I'll stay r

            
ight here unde

       
rneath you
           
  I'm just a b

             
asket case and

              
 that what we 


do


Chorus 2:
             
  You're beggi

           
ng for the tru

th
            
  So I'm sayin

           
g it to you
             
  I've been sa

          
ving your plac

e
         
And what good 


does it do?
              
Now I'm just a

            
 basket case


Bridge:
              
Won't somebody

 
 come on 
in and tug at my seams?
             
Oh send your a

rmies in 
of robbers and thieves
              
To steal the s


tate I'm 
         
in I don't wan

                           
t it anymore


Chorus 3:
             
  You're beggi

           
ng for the tru

th
            
  So I'm sayin

           
g it to you
             
  I've been sa

          
ving your plac

e
         
And what good 


does it do?
              
Now I'm just a

            
 basket case
              
Now I'm just a

            
 basket case
              
Now I'm just a

            
 basket case
              
Now I'm just a

            
 basket case