“Basket Case”- Sara Bareilles
Tabbed by Robin Young
(You can hear me play it at youtube.com/watch?v=pG44NEz9RTc)

Tuning: DADGAd

CHORDS:
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INTRO: (add11) –  –  (2x)

VERSE 1:
      
I don't want t

       
o talk about i

     
t to you
           
I'm not an ope

         
n book that yo

       
u can rifle th


rough
      
The cold hard 

              
truth that you

           
'll see right 

  
to
            
I'm just baske

      
t case without

 
 you

VERSE 2:
           
He's not a mag

       
ic man or a pe

 
rfect fit
         
He had a stead

           
y hand, and I 

      
got used to it
      
And a glass ca

              
ge heart, and 

          
invited me in
              
And now I'm ju

          
st a basket ca

      
se without him

   CHORUS:
            
   You're begg

            
ing for the tr


uth
      
   So I'm sayi

     
ng it to you
              
   I've been s

           
aving your pla


ce
        
   What good d

 (
oes it do?
              
   Now I'm jus

            
t a basket cas

   
e
              
   Now I'm jus

            
t a basket cas

   
e

VERSE 3:
      
I don't say mu

              
ch, and it'll 

     
stay that way
         
You got a stee

           
l train touch,

              
 and I'm just 

       
a track you la

  
y
        
So I'll stay r

         
ight here unde

          
rneath you
            
I'm just a bas

      
ket case; it’s

         
 what we do

(CHORUS)

BRIDGE:
              
Won't somebody

 
 come on in an

d tug at my se

ams?
              
Oh, send your 


armies in of r

obbers and thi

eves
             
To steal the s

-       
tate I'm in, I

          
 don't want it

    
 anymore

(CHORUS)

              
Now I’m just a

            
 basket case
              
Now I’m just a

            
 basket case