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