Basic Being Basic
by Djo

Album: The Crux (2025)
Charted: 62
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  • Get food, barely eat
    Every bite just kept me glued to my seat
    I worried, even cried
    How'd it feel to take the light from my life?
    Bad habit, even worse
    Fifty-fifty, I'm a sucker for looks
    Asked for it, here it is
    A quick example 'cause you wanted the hits

    I think you're scared of being basic
    That's ironic 'cause it's reading like you're even more basic
    It's not funny, it's so funny
    'Cause you're basic
    Just looking hot and keeping monotone and understated
    Nothingness won't change it
    (Good luck with that, good luck with what?)
    It's not funny, but it's so funny

    I don't want your money, I don't care for fame
    I don't wanna live a life where that's my big exchange
    I want simple pleasures, friends who have my back
    Everyone has secrets, but not everyone can fool a man like that
    It sent me reeling, still not the same
    It's like my capacity to love and give has changed
    I guess I'll thank you and spite your name again
    The past's the past and I'll outlast
    The hate to find real love that's not pretend

    How basic (sell me on it)
    Shuffle numbers, pointing fingers
    Ditching chats in different apps
    That's basic
    It's not funny, it's so funny
    That's just basic being basic (basically)
    You said he looked just like a girl, so you like girls
    I guess I'll take it
    Yeah, that's funny, you're so funny

    Change your body, change your face
    Curl your hair then make it straight
    Take a picture of your plate, Tarantino movie taste
    Rah-rah, cheugy-phobe, Vera Bradley's back in Vogue
    It's a flash photograph

    What an empty epitaph that is (that's basic)
    What an empty epitaph that is (that's basic)
    What an empty epitaph (that's just basic being basic)
    Yeah, my tight five might get a laugh as is
    If that's funny, I'm not funny Writer/s: Adam Thein, Joseph David Keery
    Publisher: Sentric Music
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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