Basket Case Chords
by Rivers Cuomo
Basket Case by Rivers Cuomo is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of B with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords D, A, B5, F#m and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Verse: 1
D A B5 F#m
Do you have the time to listen to me whine?
G D A A
About nothing and everything all at once
D A
I am one of those
B5 F#m
Melodramatic fools
G D
Neurotic to the bone
A A
No doubt about it
G A D D
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
G A D D
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
G A
It all keeps adding up
D A F#m
I think I'm cracking up
G A
Am I just paranoid?
D
Or am I just stoned?
Verse: 2
D A
I went to a shrink
B5 F#m
To analyze my dreams
G D A A
She says it's lack of sex that's bringing me down
D A
I went to a whore
B5 F#m
He said my life's a bore
G D A A
So quit my whining 'cause it's bringing her down
G A D D
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
G A D D
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
G A
It all keeps adding up
D A F#m
I think I'm cracking up
G A
Am I just paranoid?
D
I'm just stoned
Bridge
G A
Grasping to control
N.C
So I better hold on
Musical Break (played same as verse)
D A B5 F#m G D A A D A B5 F#m G D A A
G A D D
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
G A D D
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
G A
It all keeps adding up
D A F#m
I think I'm cracking up
G A
Am I just paranoid?
D
I'm just stoned