Lyrics Riptide (Live Version) - Lou Reed

She's out of her mind, like the wind in the storm
Like the ocean in the dawn as it disappears, with the riptide
She's out of her mind, she's pulled away by the moon
She's ripped from her sleep
As the cold Luna sweep gains control

What you gonna do with your emotions
Ones you barely recognize?
In your sleep, I heard your screaming, "Ah-ah-ah
This is not voluntary! This is not voluntary!
If this is life, I'd rather die, oh, in the riptide!"

She's going out of her mind

She's out of her mind
Oh baby, like hustle the swells
You know when you trip
Whether you're well or sick, your body aches
She's out with the tide
Gone to a prisoner's dance
Where a monkey's her date
Eating limbs off a plate with a spoon

Ah what you gonna do with your emotions
Set the seagull to the loon
What you gonna do with your emotions
She said, "Please wake me up
Oh, baby, don't you touch me now"
She said, "I wish I was dead"
Ah-ah-ah In the riptide
She's out of her mind

She's out of her mind
A riptide you always win
It happens over and over again, ahh riptide
She's out of her mind, it's like a hurricane's rain
She does not stand a chance at this Luna dance riptide
I was thinking of Van Gogh's last painting
The wheat fields and the crows
Is that perhaps what you, you've been feeling

When you see the ground
As you fallen from the shy
As the floors disappears
From beneath your feet riptide, riptide
She's going out of her mind

She's going out of her mind with the riptide
Out of her mind with the riptide