Lou Reed – Riptide (Guitar)

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"Perfect Night:Live In London"! [Intro] E [Verse]
E
She's out of her mind

G                   Amaj7
Like the wind in the storm

            Cm
Oh, like the ocean at dawn

           Cm7                   E
As it disappears, with the riptide
[Verse]
E
She's out with the tide

G                           Amaj7
She's pulled away by the moon

        Cm
She's ripped from her sleep

        Cm7                          E
As the cold in the street gains control
[Chorus]
    D                       Em
Ah, what you gonna do with your emotions?

C
Ones you barely recognize

D    .                     Em
In your sleep I heard your screaming, ah ah

C
"This is not voluntary!
This is not voluntary!
                           D
If this is life I'd rather die!"

               G  G/F#  G/F
In the riptide
[Verse]
                     E
She's out of her mind

G                             Amaj7
Ooh, baby, like muscle that swells

     Cm
You know when you trip

         Cm7
Whether you're well or sick

               E
Your body aches
[Verse]
E
She's out with the tide

G    .                    Amaj7
Gone to a prisoner's dance

           Cm
There are monkey's who date

        Cm7      .                   E
Eating limbs off a plate with a spoon
[Chorus]
     D                       Em
Ah, what you gonna do with your emotions?

C
Said the seagull to the loon

D                       Em
What you gonna do with your emotions?

C
She said "Please wake me up"
"Oh, baby, don't ya touch me now" She said "I wish I was dead"
                G  G/F#  G/F
In the riptide
[Verse]
                     E
She's out of her mind

G                     Amaj7
A riptide, you always win

    Cm
It happens over and over again

Cm7           E
Ah ah, riptide

E
She's out of her mind

G                     Amaj7
It's like a hurricane's rain

      Cm
She doesn't stand a chance

        Cm7             E
At this lunar dance, riptide
[Chorus]
 D                         Em
I was thinking of Van Gogh's last painting

C
The wheatfields and the crow

     D                 Em
Is that perhaps what you've

Em
You've been feeling

C
When you see the ground
As you fall in from the sky As the floors disappears From beneath your feet
    D
Riptide, riptide

                              G  G/F#  G/F
But she's going out of her mind
[Chorus]
E                     G
She's going out of her mind

Amaj7          Cm
With the riptide

Cm7
Out of her mind

               E
With the riptide