Virtual Insanity Chords & Tabs

by Jamiroquai

[Content]
Song: Virtual Insanity
Artist: Jamiroquai
Updated in 2025 to revert largely to a previous version of the chords. There's a descending line of notes in
the first seven chords (the notes are Db C B Bb Bb Bb Ab) that I mis-synced with the chord changes. That
caused me to screw up the 2nd 3rd and 4th chords of the verse, writing 2 majors as sus4 and D dominant 9 as a
major 9. Can't believe I let this go so long.
Good news is that the correct chords are simpler to write and to play!

[Intro and verse chords]
   Ebm7 Ab7 Db9  Gbmaj7 Cm7   Bmaj7 Bb7
E    6   4   x(4)  x      x     x     x
B    7   4   4(4)  2      4     4     7
G    6   5   4(4)  3      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.
Bmaj7Ddim7   Ebm7 Gbmaj7 Ab7     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    Db9      Gbmaj7
Ooh,    He - ey, oh
Cm7                  Bmaj7              Bb7
What we're living in,     let me tell ya

[Verse 1]
       Ebm7           Ab7       
It's a wonder man can eat at all
     Db9                 Gbmaj7         
When things are big that should be small
Cm7               Bmaj7       
Who can tell what magic spells
Bb7            Ebm7  
Will be doing for us?
        Ebm7          Ab7               
And I'm giving all my love to this world
Db9     Gbmaj7 
Only to be told
Cm7           Bmaj7          
I can't see, I can't breathe,
Bb7              Ebm7 Gbmaj11
no more will we be
    Ab7                           Db9        
And nothing's going to change the way we live
     Gbmaj7                 Cm7       
Cos' we can always take but never give
  Bmaj7                         Bb7               
An' now that things're changing for the worse, see
Ebm7 
Woah,
Ebm7            Ab7               
It's a crazy world we're living in
Db9                Gbmaj7
And I just can't see that
         Cm7            Bmaj7           Bb7            
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           Ab7          
And I'm thinking what a mess we're in
Db9                Gbmaj7  
Hard to know where to begin
   Cm7              Bmaj7      
If I could slip the sickly ties
     Bb7       Dm7     Ebm7Gbmaj7
That earthly   man has made
    Ab7       Db9    Gbmaj7           Cm7 
And now every mother can choose the colour
Bmaj7        Bb7           Dm7      Ebm7 Gbmaj7
Of her child,   that's not nature's way
      Ab7                        Db9
Well that's what they said yesterday
        Gbmaj7                 Cm7 
There's nothing left to do but pray
  Bmaj7                   Bb7     Dm7    Ebm7    Gbmaj7
I think it's time I found a new  eligion,  wo  - ah,
     Ab7          Db9           Gbmaj7     
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  Ab7  Db9  Gbmaj7  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 Db9
Ebm7      Cm7        Bmaj7            Cm7
Virtual insanity is what we're living in
Bmaj7 Bb7#5