Ecstasy chords by
Lou Reed
Lou Reed

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Key: E major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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They call you ecstasy
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Nothing ever sticks to you
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Not Velcro, not Scotch tape
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Not my arms dipped in glue
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Not if I wrap
Verse 2
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myself in nylon
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A piece of duct tape down my back
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Love pierced the arrow with the twelve
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And I can't get you back
Verse 3
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Ah, ecstasy
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Ecstasy
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Ah, ecstasy
Verse 4
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Across the streets an old ford,
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they took off it's wheels
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The engine is gone
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In it's seat sits a box
With a note that says,
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goodbye charlie, thanks a lot
Verse 5
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I see a child through a window with a bib
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And I think of us and what we almost did
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The Hudson rocketing with light
The ships pass the statue
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of liberty at night
Verse 6
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They call it ecstasy, ah
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Ecstasy
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Ecstasy, ah
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Ecstasy
Verse 7
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Some men call me st. ivory
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Some call me St. Maurice
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I'm smooth as alabaster
With white veins runnin'
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through my cheeks
Verse 8
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A big stud through my eyebrow
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A scar on my arm that says, domain
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I put it over the tattoo
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That contained your name
Verse 9
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They called you ecstasy, ecstasy
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Ecstasy
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They call you ecstasy, ecstasy
Ecstasy
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Verse 10
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The moon passing through a cloud
A body facing up is floating
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towards a crowd
And I think of a time and what
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I couldn't do
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I couldn't hold you close, I couldn't,
I couldn't become you
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They call you ecstasy,
Verse 11
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I can't hold you down
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I can't hold you up
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I feel like that car that I saw today, no radio
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No engine, no hood
Verse 12
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I'm going to the cafe,
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I hope they've got music
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And I hope that they can play
But if we have to part
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I'll have a new scar right
over my heart
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I'll call it ecstasy
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Verse 13
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Oh, ecstasy, ecstasy
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Ecstasy
Ecstasy, ecstasy
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Ecstasy
Outro 1
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