Virtual Insanity

Virtual Insanity, by Jamiroquai, is likely to be considered by most listeners as a song of mixed funk and acid jazz stylings. A fairly simple synocopated piano groove sets the stage for soul-style vocals, and while other instruments take a less aggressive role than one might expect for a funk song it is still easily classified as such.

[Intro] Oh yeah What we're living in Let me tell ya [Verse 1] And it's a wonder man can eat at all When things are big that should be small Who can tell what magic spells we'll be doing for us And I'm giving all my love to this world Only to be told I can't see I can't breathe No more will we be And nothing's going to change the way we live 'Cause we can always take but never give And now that things are changing for the worse See, it's a crazy world we're living in And I just can't see that half of us immersed in sin Is all we have to give these - [Hook] Future's made of virtual insanity Now always seem to, be governed by this love we have For useless, twisting, our new technology Oh, now there is no sound For we all live underground [Verse 2] And I'm thinking what a mess we're in Hard to know where to begin If I could slip the sickly ties that earthly man has made And now every mother, can choose the colour Of her child That's not nature's way Well that's what they said yesterday There's nothing left to do but pray I think it's time I found a new religion Whoa, it's so insane to synthesize another strain There's something in these futures that we have to be told [Hook] Future's made of virtual insanity Now always seem to, be governed by this love we have For useless, twisting, our new technology Oh, now there is no sound For we all live underground [Bridge] Now there is no sound If we all live underground And now it's virtual insanity Forget your virtual reality Oh, there's nothing so bad Oh yeah, I know yeah [Segue] Of this virtual insanity, we're livin' in Has got to change, yeah Things, will never be the same And I can't go on While we're livin' in oh, oh virtual insanity Oh, this world, has got to change 'Cause I just, I just can't keep going on, it was virtual Virtual insanity that we're livin' in, that we're livin' in That virtual insanity is what it is Yeah [Hook] Future's made of virtual insanity Now always seem to, be governed by this love we have For useless, twisting, our new technology Oh, now there is no sound For we all live underground Yes we do [Outro] Oh, now there's nothing that we live in It's all gone wrong Out of window, you know There is nothing worse than a rambling man There is nothing worse than a foolish mind Virtual insanity is what we're living in Yeah, yeah, it's alright