Virtual Insanity Chords

Song: Virtual Insanity
Artist: Jamiroquai
 
Regarding major changes in Jan 2022, I listened back to the song for the first time in a few years
and realised I was slightly wrong about the chords. The verse progression is actually Ebm7 to Ab7sus4
(probably actually an add chord rather than a sus, but with just a guitar it's hard to add the minor 7th
then the ninth then the 11th to get full jazz chords!) to Dbmaj9 to Gbmaj11. You can hear in the first
four bars of the intro a tone that falls each bar, from Eb on the Eb to Db on the Ab (hence Absus4 - neither
major nor minor as written in the chord charts below, and I am ambivalent about whether the 3rd should be
major or minor if it is included) to C on the Db (i.e. the maj7, hence Dbmaj9) to B (technically Cb) on the
Gbmaj11e (hence Gbmaj11).
 
[Intro and verse chords]
   Ebm7 Ab7sus4 Dbmaj9 Gbmaj11 Cm7b5 Bmaj7 Bb7#5
E    6    4      x(4)    x      x      x     x
B    7    4      4(4)    2      4      4     7
G    6    6      5(5)    4      3      3     7
D    8    4      3(6)    3      4      4    (6)
A    6    6      4(4)    x      3      2     x
E    x    4      x(x)    2      x      x     6
 
 
Chorus chords (these voicings give you the violin notes on the
top strings, especially if you ditch the Ebm7 for the Eb5 in
brackets. The Gbmaj11 needs your thumb for the bass string.
 
 
Bmaj7 Ddim7   Ebm7 Gbmaj7 Ab7sus4 Bb7
 x      x      6      1      x      x
 7      6      7      2      7      9
 8      4      6(8)   3      6      7
 8      6      8(8)   3      4      6
 x      5      6(6)   x      6      8
 7      x      x      2      4      6
 
Where the chord change is on a half measure, the two chords are
connected by a hyphen (with spaces), e.g. Ebm7  -  Gbmaj11.
Otherwise, each chord is one measure; if a chord is played for two
measures, it's written in twice, except for the outro, where the
timing becomes fluid – you're on your own there.
 
 
[Intro]
Ebm7 Ab7sus4 Dbmaj9   Gbmaj11
     Ooh,    He - ey, oh
Cm7b5                Bmaj7               Bb7#5
What we're living in,     let me tell ya
 
 
[Verse 1]
       Ebm7           Ab7sus4
It's a wonder man can eat at all
     Dbmaj9              Gbmaj11
When things are big that should be small
Cm7b5             Bmaj7
Who can tell what magic spells
Bb7#5          Ebm7
Will be doing for us?
        Ebm7          Ab7sus4
And I'm giving all my love to this world
Dbmaj9     Gbmaj11
   Only to be told
Cm7b5         Bmaj7
I can't see, I can't breathe,
Bb7#5            Ebm7 – Gbmaj11
no more will we be
    Ab7sus4                       Dbmaj9
And nothing's going to change the way we live
     Gbmaj11                Cm7b5
Cos' we can always take but never give
  Bmaj7                         Bb7#5
An' now that things're changing for the worse, see
Ebm7
    Woah,
Ab7sus4               Dbmaj9
     It's a crazy world we're living in
Gbmaj11               Cm7b5
     And I just can't see that
        Bmaj7           Bb7#5         Bb7  -  Dm7b5
Half of us immersed in sin is all we have to give these
 
 
[Chorus 1]
  Bmaj7   Ddim7    Ebm7 - Gbmaj7  Abm7 - Bb7
  Futures made of virtu - al    insani  - ty now
  Bmaj7  Ddim7       Ebm7 - Gbmaj7  Abm7 -  Bb7
  Always seem to be governed by this love we have for
  Bmaj7    Ddim7    Ebm7 - Gbmaj7 Abm7 - Bb7
  Useless, twisting of the new techno - logy
      Bmaj7           Ddim7         Ebm7  -  Gbmaj7 Abm7 – Bb7
  Oh, now there is no sound, for we all live under - ground
 
 
[Verse 2]
         Ebm7           Ab7sus4
And I'm thinking what a mess we're in
Dbmaj9             Gbmaj11
Hard to know where to begin
   Cm7b5            Bmaj7
If I could slip the sickly ties
     Bb7#5  -  Dm7b5   Ebm7 – Gbmaj11
That earthly   man has made
    Ab7sus4   Dbmaj9 Gbmaj11           Cm7b5
And now every mother can choose the colour
Bmaj7             Bb7#5    –    Dm7b5    Ebm7 - Gbmaj11
     Of her child,   that's not nature's way
      Ab7sus4                    Dbmaj9
Well that's what they said yesterday
        Gbmaj11                Cm7b5
There's nothing left to do but pray
  Bmaj7                   Bb7#5 - Dm7b5  Ebm7 –  Gbmaj11
I think it's time I found a new  eligion,  wo  - ah,
     Ab7sus4      Dbmaj9        Gbmaj11
it's so insane to synthesize another strain
        Cm7b5              Bmaj7           Bb7#5  –  Dm7b5
There's something in these futures that we have  to be told
 
 
[Chorus 2]
  Bmaj7   Ddim7    Ebm7 - Gbmaj7  Abm7 - Bb7
  Futures made of virtu - al    insani  - ty now
  Bmaj7  Ddim7       Ebm7 - Gbmaj7  Abm7 -  Bb7
  Always seem to be governed by this love we have for
  Bmaj7    Ddim7    Ebm7 - Gbmaj7 Abm7 - Bb7
  Useless, twisting of the new techno - logy
      Bmaj7           Ddim7         Ebm7  -  Gbmaj7 Abm7 – Bb7
  Oh, now there is no sound, for we all live under - ground
 
 
[Chorus 3]
  Bmaj7                Ddim7      Ebm7  -  Gbmaj7 Abm7 - Bb7
  Now there is no sound     if we all live under-ground
  Bmaj7                      Ddim7
      And now it's virtual insanity
     Ebm7 -   Gbmaj7   Abm7 - Bb7
  Forget your virtual real -  ity
  Bmaj7                    Ddim7    Ebm7 - Gbmaj7  Abm7 - Bb7
       Oh, there's nothing so bad.       I know   ye - ah
 
 
[Interlude]
Ebm7  Ab7sus4  Dbmaj9  Gbmaj11  Cm7b5  Bmaj7  Bb7#5
Ebm7  Ab7sus4  Dbmaj9  Gbmaj11  Cm7b5  Bmaj7  Bb7#5
 
 
[Chorus 4]
  Bmaj7   Ddim7    Ebm7 - Gbmaj7  Abm7 - Bb7
  Futures made of virtu - al    insani  - ty now
  Bmaj7  Ddim7       Ebm7 - Gbmaj7  Abm7 -  Bb7
  Always seem to be governed by this love we have for
  Bmaj7    Ddim7    Ebm7 - Gbmaj7 Abm7 - Bb7
  Useless, twisting of the new techno - logy
      Bmaj7           Ddim7         Ebm7  -  Gbmaj7 Abm7 – Bb7
  Oh, now there is no sound, for we all live under - ground
 
 
[Chorus 5]
  Bmaj7      Ddim7 Ebm7 -  Gbmaj7 Abm7 - Bb7
      Living,      virtu - al    insani – ty
  Bmaj7      Ddim7 Ebm7 -  Gbmaj7 Abm7 - Bb7
      Living,      virtu - al    insani – ty
  Bmaj7      Ddim7 Ebm7 -  Gbmaj7 Abm7 - Bb7
      Living,      virtu - al    insani – ty
  Bmaj7      Ddim7 Ebm7 -  Gbmaj7 Abm7 - Bb7
      Living,      virtu - al    insani – ty
 
 
[Outro]
  Bmaj7 Dbmaj9
  Ebm7      Cm7b5      Bmaj7            Cm7b5
  Virtual insanity is what we're living in
 
  Bmaj7 Bb7#5
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