Riptide chords by Lou Reed

Chords with lyrics

🎸 Intro:

E MajorE


🎸 Verse :

E MajorE
She's out of her mind
G+G          Amaj7Amaj7
Like the wind in the storm
      C minorCm
Oh, like the ocean at dawn
      Cm7Cm7          E MajorE
As it disappears, with the riptide

🎸 Verse :

E MajorE
She's out with the tide
G+G              Amaj7Amaj7
She's pulled away by the moon
    C minorCm
She's ripped from her sleep
    Cm7Cm7             E MajorE
As the cold in the street gains control

🎸 Chorus:

  D MajorD            E minorEm
Ah, what you gonna do with your emotions?
C majorC
Ones you barely recognize
D MajorD             E minorEm
In your sleep I heard your screaming, ah ah
C majorC
"This is not voluntary!
This is not voluntary!
              D MajorD
If this is life I'd rather die!"
        G+G G/F# G/F
In the riptide


🎸 Verse :

           E MajorE
She's out of her mind
G+G               Amaj7Amaj7
Ooh, baby, like muscle that swells
   C minorCm
You know when you trip
     Cm7Cm7
Whether you're well or sick
        E MajorE
Your body aches

🎸 Verse :

E MajorE
She's out with the tide
G+G            Amaj7Amaj7
Gone to a prisoner's dance
      C minorCm
There are monkey's who date
    Cm7Cm7             E MajorE
Eating limbs off a plate with a spoon

🎸 Chorus:

   D MajorD            E minorEm
Ah, what you gonna do with your emotions?
C majorC
Said the seagull to the loon
D MajorD            E minorEm
What you gonna do with your emotions?
C majorC
She said "Please wake me up"
"Oh, baby, don't ya touch me now"
She said "I wish I was dead"
        G+G G/F# G/F
In the riptide


🎸 Verse :
           E MajorE
She's out of her mind
G+G           Amaj7Amaj7
A augmentedA riptide, you always win
  C minorCm
It happens over and over again
Cm7Cm7      E MajorE
Ah ah, riptide
E MajorE
She's out of her mind
G+G           Amaj7Amaj7
It's like a hurricane's rain
   C minorCm
She doesn't stand a chance
    Cm7Cm7       E MajorE
At this lunar dance, riptide

🎸 Chorus:

 D MajorD             E minorEm
I was thinking of Van Gogh's last painting
C majorC
The wheatfields and the crow
   D MajorD         E minorEm
Is that perhaps what you've
E minorEm
You've been feeling
C majorC
When you see the ground
As you fall in from the sky
As the floors disappears
From beneath your feet
  D MajorD
Riptide, riptide
               G+G G/F# G/F
But she's going out of her mind

🎸 Chorus:
E MajorE           G+G
She's going out of her mind
Amaj7Amaj7     C minorCm
With the riptide
Cm7Cm7
Out of her mind
        E MajorE
With the riptide