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