Betrayed chords by Lou Reed

Lou Reed
"Betrayed"
From "🏷Legendary Hearts" (1983)


Chorus:


D        G           D
Betrayed by the one who says she loves you
G           D
By the one who says she needs you
G        Asus A
Above all other men
D         G        D
Betrayed by her fragile, vicious beauty
G         D    G   A  D
Her father did his duty and I lie down betrayed

Verse:


D                   G
Justice taught her confidence her mother was like steel
   Em
Her cousins, they're all convicts
   A             Asus
She alone rose above that wheel
D
But a motorcyclist no matter how good
   G
Is slave to the oncoming truck
    Em             A
And the poison of her father was her most pitiless luck


Chorus:

D        G           D
Betrayed by the one who says she loves you
G           D
By the one who says she needs you
G        Asus
Above all other men
D         G        D
Betrayed by her fragile, vicious beauty
G         D    G   A  D
Her father did his duty and I lie down betrayed


Verse:


D              G
Three of us lie in this bed, night of infamy
Em                A
One of us lies on our back, her father's in her head
D
And quick she turns and slaps my face
    G
And with her eyes open wide she screams
  Em
"I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!"
       A
But she's looking right past me


Chorus:


D        G           D
Betrayed by the one who says she loves you
G           D
By the one who says she needs you
G        Asus A
Above all other men
D         G        D
Betrayed by her fragile, vicious beauty
G         D    G   A  D    G A D
Her father did his duty and I lie down betrayed
  G   A  D     G A D
And I lie down betrayed
 G  A  D    G A D
I lie down betrayed

G A D