Ecstasy chords by
Lou Reed
Lou Reed

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Key: E major
Intro 1
B
B

C
C

B
B

C
C

B
B

C
C

Verse 1
B
B

They call you ecstasy
C
C

B
B

C
C

Nothing ever sticks to you
B
B

Not Velcro, not Scotch tape
Am
Am

B
B

Not my arms dipped in glue
C
C

Not if I wrap
Verse 2
B
B

myself in nylon
C
C

A piece of duct tape down my back
B
B

Love pierced the arrow with the twelve
C
C

And I can't get you back
Verse 3
C
C

B
B

Ah, ecstasy
C
C

Ecstasy
B
B

C
C

Ah, ecstasy
Verse 4
C
C

B
B

Across the streets an old ford,
C
C

they took off it's wheels
B
B

C
C

The engine is gone
B
B

In it's seat sits a box
With a note that says,
C
C

goodbye charlie, thanks a lot
Verse 5
C
C

B
B

I see a child through a window with a bib
C
C

B
B

And I think of us and what we almost did
C
C

B
B

The Hudson rocketing with light
The ships pass the statue
C
C

of liberty at night
Verse 6
C
C

B
B

They call it ecstasy, ah
C
C

Ecstasy
B
B

Ecstasy, ah
C
C

Ecstasy
Verse 7
C
C

B
B

Some men call me st. ivory
C
C

B
B

Some call me St. Maurice
C
C

B
B

I'm smooth as alabaster
With white veins runnin'
C
C

through my cheeks
Verse 8
C
C

B
B

A big stud through my eyebrow
C
C

A scar on my arm that says, domain
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B

I put it over the tattoo
C
C

That contained your name
Verse 9
C
C

B
B

They called you ecstasy, ecstasy
C
C

Ecstasy
B
B

They call you ecstasy, ecstasy
Ecstasy
C
C

Verse 10
B
B

The moon passing through a cloud
A body facing up is floating
C
C

towards a crowd
And I think of a time and what
B
B

I couldn't do
C
C

I couldn't hold you close, I couldn't,
I couldn't become you
B
B

They call you ecstasy,
Verse 11
C
C

B
B

I can't hold you down
C
C

I can't hold you up
B
B

I feel like that car that I saw today, no radio
C
C

No engine, no hood
Verse 12
C
C

I'm going to the cafe,
B
B

I hope they've got music
C
C

And I hope that they can play
But if we have to part
B
B

I'll have a new scar right
over my heart
C
C

I'll call it ecstasy
B
B

Verse 13
C
C

B
B

Oh, ecstasy, ecstasy
C
C

Ecstasy
Ecstasy, ecstasy
B
B

Em
Em

C
C

Ecstasy
Outro 1
C
C

B
B

C
C

B
B

Em
Em

C
C

B
B

C
C

B
B

C
C

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