Riptide chords by Lou Reed

🎸 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