{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1840398,"song":"Virtual Insanity","artist":"Jamiroquai","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11407310-virtual-insanity-chords-by-jamiroquai/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1840398?type=chord","rating":4.93315,"votes":198,"content":"Updated in 2025 to revert largely to a previous version of the chords. There's a descending line of notes in\r\nthe first seven chords (the notes are Db C B Bb Bb Bb Ab) that I mis-synced with the chord changes. That \r\ncaused me to screw up the 2nd 3rd and 4th chords of the verse, writing 2 majors as sus4 and D dominant 9 as a \r\nGood news is that the correct chords are simpler to write and to play! \r\n[Intro and verse chords]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Ebm7[/ch] [ch]Ab7[/ch] [ch]Db9[/ch]  [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch] [ch]Cm7b5[/ch] [ch]Bmaj7[/ch] [ch]Bb7#5[/ch]\r\nE    6   4   x(4)  x      x     x     x[/tab]\r\nB    7   4   4(4)  2      4     4     7\r\nG    6   5   4(4)  3      3     3     7\r\nD    8   4   3(6)  3      4     4    (6)\r\nA    6   6   4(4)  x      3     2     x\r\nE    x   4   x(x)  2      x     x     6\r\nChorus chords (these voicings give you the violin notes on the \r\ntop strings, especially if you ditch the Ebm7 for the Eb5 in \r\nbrackets. The Gbmaj11 needs your thumb for the bass string.\r\n[tab][ch]Bmaj7[/ch] [ch]Ddim7[/ch]   [ch]Ebm7[/ch] [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch] [ch]Ab7sus4[/ch] [ch]Bb7[/ch]\r\n x      x      6      1      x      x[/tab]\r\nWhere the chord change is on a half measure, the two chords are \r\nconnected by a hyphen (with spaces), e.g. Ebm7  -  Gbmaj11.\r\nOtherwise, each chord is one measure; if a chord is played for two\r\n[Intro]\r\n[tab][ch]Ebm7[/ch] [ch]Ab7[/ch]     [ch]Db9[/ch]      [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch]\r\n     Ooh,    He - ey, oh[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm7b5[/ch]                [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]               [ch]Bb7#5[/ch]\r\nWhat we're living in,     let me tell ya[/tab]\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Ebm7[/ch]           [ch]Ab7[/ch]       \r\nIt's a wonder man can eat at all[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Db9[/ch]                 [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch]\r\nWhen things are big that should be small[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm7b5[/ch]             [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]\r\nWho can tell what magic spells[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bb7#5[/ch]          [ch]Ebm7[/ch]\r\nWill be doing for us?[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Ebm7[/ch]          [ch]Ab7[/ch]\r\nAnd I'm giving all my love to this world[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Db9[/ch]        [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch]\r\n   Only to be told[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm7b5[/ch]         [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]\r\nI can't see, I can't breathe,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bb7#5[/ch]            [ch]Ebm7[/ch] – [ch]Gbmaj11[/ch]\r\nno more will we be[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Ab7[/ch]                           [ch]Db9[/ch]\r\nAnd nothing's going to change the way we live[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch]                 [ch]Cm7b5[/ch]\r\nCos' we can always take but never give[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]                         [ch]Bb7#5[/ch]\r\nAn' now that things're changing for the worse, see[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Ebm7[/ch]\r\n    Woah,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Ab7[/ch]                   [ch]Db9[/ch]\r\n     It's a crazy world we're living in[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gbmaj7[/ch]                [ch]Cm7b5[/ch]\r\n     And I just can't see that[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]           [ch]Bb7#5[/ch]         [ch]Bb7[/ch]  -  [ch]Dm7b5[/ch]\r\nHalf of us immersed in sin is all we have to give these[/tab]\r\n[Chorus 1]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]   [ch]Ddim7[/ch]    [ch]Ebm7[/ch] - [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch]  [ch]Abm7[/ch] - [ch]Bb7[/ch]\r\n  Futures made of virtu - al    insani  - ty now[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]  [ch]Ddim7[/ch]       [ch]Ebm7[/ch] - [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch]  [ch]Abm7[/ch] -  [ch]Bb7[/ch]\r\n  Always seem to be governed by this love we have for[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]    [ch]Ddim7[/ch]    [ch]Ebm7[/ch] - [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch] [ch]Abm7[/ch] - [ch]Bb7[/ch]\r\n  Useless, twisting of the new techno - logy[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]           [ch]Ddim7[/ch]         [ch]Ebm7[/ch]  -  [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch] [ch]Abm7[/ch] – [ch]Bb7[/ch]\r\n  Oh, now there is no sound, for we all live under - ground[/tab]\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Ebm7[/ch]           [ch]Ab7[/ch]\r\nAnd I'm thinking what a mess we're in[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Db9[/ch]                [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch]\r\nHard to know where to begin[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Cm7b5[/ch]            [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]\r\nIf I could slip the sickly ties[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Bb7#5[/ch]  -  [ch]Dm7b5[/ch]   [ch]Ebm7[/ch] – [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch]\r\nThat earthly   man has made[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Ab7[/ch]       [ch]Db9[/ch]    [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch]           [ch]Cm7b5[/ch]\r\nAnd now every mother can choose the colour[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bmaj7[/ch]             [ch]Bb7#5[/ch]    –    [ch]Dm7b5[/ch]    [ch]Ebm7[/ch] - [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch]\r\n     Of her child,   that's not nature's way[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Ab7[/ch]                        [ch]Db9[/ch]\r\nWell that's what they said yesterday[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch]                 [ch]Cm7b5[/ch]\r\nThere's nothing left to do but pray[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]                   [ch]Bb7#5[/ch] - [ch]Dm7b5[/ch]  [ch]Ebm7[/ch] –  [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch]\r\nI think it's time I found a new  eligion,  wo  - ah,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Ab7[/ch]          [ch]Db9[/ch]           [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch]\r\nit's so insane to synthesize another strain[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Cm7b5[/ch]              [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]           [ch]Bb7#5[/ch]  –  [ch]Dm7b5[/ch]\r\nThere's something in these futures that we have  to be told[/tab]\r\n[Chorus 2]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]   [ch]Ddim7[/ch]    [ch]Ebm7[/ch] - [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch]  [ch]Abm7[/ch] - [ch]Bb7[/ch]\r\n  Futures made of virtu - al    insani  - ty now[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]  [ch]Ddim7[/ch]       [ch]Ebm7[/ch] - [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch]  [ch]Abm7[/ch] -  [ch]Bb7[/ch]\r\n  Always seem to be governed by this love we have for[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]    [ch]Ddim7[/ch]    [ch]Ebm7[/ch] - [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch] [ch]Abm7[/ch] - [ch]Bb7[/ch]\r\n  Useless, twisting of the new techno - logy[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]           [ch]Ddim7[/ch]         [ch]Ebm7[/ch]  -  [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch] [ch]Abm7[/ch] – [ch]Bb7[/ch]\r\n  Oh, now there is no sound, for we all live under - ground[/tab]\r\n[Chorus 3]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]                [ch]Ddim7[/ch]      [ch]Ebm7[/ch]  -  [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch] [ch]Abm7[/ch] - [ch]Bb7[/ch]\r\n  Now there is no sound     if we all live under-ground[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]                      [ch]Ddim7[/ch]\r\n      And now it's virtual insanity[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Ebm7[/ch] -   [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch]   [ch]Abm7[/ch] - [ch]Bb7[/ch]\r\n  Forget your virtual real -  ity[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]                    [ch]Ddim7[/ch]    [ch]Ebm7[/ch] - [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch]  [ch]Abm7[/ch] - [ch]Bb7[/ch]\r\n       Oh, there's nothing so bad.       I know   ye - ah[/tab]\r\n[Interlude]\r\n[ch]Ebm7[/ch]  [ch]Ab7[/ch]  [ch]Db9[/ch]  [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch]  [ch]Cm7b5[/ch]  [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]  [ch]Bb7#5[/ch]\r\n[ch]Ebm7[/ch]  [ch]Ab7sus4[/ch]  [ch]Dbmaj9[/ch]  [ch]Gbmaj11[/ch]  [ch]Cm7b5[/ch]  [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]  [ch]Bb7#5[/ch]\r\n[Chorus 4]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]   [ch]Ddim7[/ch]    [ch]Ebm7[/ch] - [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch]  [ch]Abm7[/ch] - [ch]Bb7[/ch]\r\n  Futures made of virtu - al    insani  - ty now[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]  [ch]Ddim7[/ch]       [ch]Ebm7[/ch] - [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch]  [ch]Abm7[/ch] -  [ch]Bb7[/ch]\r\n  Always seem to be governed by this love we have for[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]    [ch]Ddim7[/ch]    [ch]Ebm7[/ch] - [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch] [ch]Abm7[/ch] - [ch]Bb7[/ch]\r\n  Useless, twisting of the new techno - logy[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]           [ch]Ddim7[/ch]         [ch]Ebm7[/ch]  -  [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch] [ch]Abm7[/ch] – [ch]Bb7[/ch]\r\n  Oh, now there is no sound, for we all live under - ground[/tab]\r\n[Chorus 5]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]      [ch]Ddim7[/ch] [ch]Ebm7[/ch] -  [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch] [ch]Abm7[/ch] - [ch]Bb7[/ch]\r\n      Living,      virtu - al    insani – ty[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]      [ch]Ddim7[/ch] [ch]Ebm7[/ch] -  [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch] [ch]Abm7[/ch] - [ch]Bb7[/ch]\r\n      Living,      virtu - al    insani – ty[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]      [ch]Ddim7[/ch] [ch]Ebm7[/ch] -  [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch] [ch]Abm7[/ch] - [ch]Bb7[/ch]\r\n      Living,      virtu - al    insani – ty[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]      [ch]Ddim7[/ch] [ch]Ebm7[/ch] -  [ch]Gbmaj7[/ch] [ch]Abm7[/ch] - [ch]Bb7[/ch]\r\n      Living,      virtu - al    insani – ty[/tab]\r\n[Outro]\r\n  [ch]Bmaj7[/ch] [ch]Db9[/ch]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Ebm7[/ch]      [ch]Cm7b5[/ch]      [ch]Bmaj7[/ch]            [ch]Cm7b5[/ch]\r\n  Virtual insanity is what we're living in[/tab]\r\n  [ch]Bmaj7[/ch] [ch]Bb7#5[/ch]","plain_text":"Updated in 2025 to revert largely to a previous version of the chords. There's a descending line of notes in\nthe first seven chords (the notes are Db C B Bb Bb Bb Ab) that I mis-synced with the chord changes. That \ncaused me to screw up the 2nd 3rd and 4th chords of the verse, writing 2 majors as sus4 and D dominant 9 as a \nGood news is that the correct chords are simpler to write and to play! \n[Intro and verse chords]\n\nB    7   4   4(4)  2      4     4     7\nG    6   5   4(4)  3      3     3     7\nD    8   4   3(6)  3      4     4    (6)\nA    6   6   4(4)  x      3     2     x\nE    x   4   x(x)  2      x     x     6\nChorus chords (these voicings give you the violin notes on the \ntop strings, especially if you ditch the Ebm7 for the Eb5 in \nbrackets. The Gbmaj11 needs your thumb for the bass string.\n\nWhere the chord change is on a half measure, the two chords are \nconnected by a hyphen (with spaces), e.g. Ebm7  -  Gbmaj11.\nOtherwise, each chord is one measure; if a chord is played for two\n[Intro]\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus 1]\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus 2]\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus 3]\n\n\n\n\n[Interlude]\nEbm7  Ab7  Db9  Gbmaj7  Cm7b5  Bmaj7  Bb7#5\nEbm7  Ab7sus4  Dbmaj9  Gbmaj11  Cm7b5  Bmaj7  Bb7#5\n[Chorus 4]\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus 5]\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]\n  Bmaj7 Db9\n\n  Bmaj7 Bb7#5","chords":["Db","C","B","Bb","Ab","D","Ebm7","Ab7","Db9","Gbmaj7","Cm7b5","Bmaj7","Bb7#5","E","G","A","Ddim7","Ab7sus4","Bb7","Gbmaj11","Dm7b5","Abm7","Dbmaj9"]}