Chords for GTK: Lou Reed Meets the Press (1974)

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_ Said a little while ago that you sing mainly about drugs.
Is that [N] right?
Sometimes why do you do this?
[G] _ Because I think the government's plotting against me
_ _ [D] You _
[G] _ [A] _ _ [B] _ _ _ [G] _ _
[A] _ [D] _ [A] _ [G] _ [A] _ _ [D] _
like [E] singing about drugs is this because you like taking drugs yourself no
_ Some
Because I can't carry when I go through customs.
I figure somebody in the audience
Where you searched by our customs men for drugs?
Oh, no, cuz I don't take in [N] no drugs at all
And yet you sing about them.
I'm high on life.
Do you want people to take drugs themselves?
This perhaps why you sing about drugs.
Oh, yeah, I want him to take drugs.
Why is this?
_ Because it's better than monopoly.
[D] [A] Did you [G] see what [A] she did [B] to him?
[Gb] Did you hear what they said?
[Bm] [G] Just [A] a New [D] York
[A] conversation [A] rattling [D] in my head
[Bb] _ _ [A] [D] And _ [G] [A] what [D] shall we wear [Bb] [D] oh
My [G] and [A] who really [D] cares
_ [N] What do you think your music is so popularly?
I didn't know it was popular
We've had to sell out in Sydney before you've even come here.
So it is popular apparently.
I don't know that
We do you think it's a decadent society we're living in no
_ Would you describe yourself as a decadent person?
No, how would you describe yourself?
average
_ It said it said in your release that we were given this morning that you like lying to the press
Why is this now you're doing it now?
I
Didn't say that the release did
_ _ No _ _
Social behavior just part of your show business gimmick
Anti-social behavior, _ [G] what's that?
You seem very withdrawn _
_ _ _ introverted
Well, you're a man of few words.
Why is this?
I don't have anything to say.
Do you like meeting people talking to people?
Some do you like talking to us?
I
Don't know you
Do you like get press interviews in general?
No, you shun publicity
No, you tend to keep to yourself _
No, why are you attending this one?
_ They told me to come in here
part of show business
_ [A] I [G] didn't I'm not in show business
[Bm] _ _ _ The entertainment [N] game no, you do everything people tell you to
_ Sometimes what message is it that you're trying to get across?
I don't have one
[G] _ Most singers do [Ab] they usually sing about something and have some kind of way of getting through to the people like
_ _ Would _ [G] it be right to call your music a rock gutter rock gutter rock.
Oh, yeah
It's been called underground rock and roll.
What do you think about?
_ _ Oh, yeah _
[A] Has he been very important in your life, [D] do you make a big difference to you?
Oh, it was [E] everything
_ [Em] Though _ you sing a lot about
[N] _ transvestites and _ sadomasochism
How would you describe yourself in the light of these songs? _ _ _
I know what I have to do with me.
Well, could I put it bluntly and pardon the question?
Are you a transvestite or homosexual?
_ Sometimes _
Which one I don't know what's the difference
[A] Why [G]
do you like being what do you like describing yourself as this?
Why do you think you fit into this type of person?
It's something to do
It's life so boring for you [A] then No
[Bm] What do you what do you like most in life everything?
[Am] Is there any things you like better than others?
No, where do you [G] spend your money?
_ on drugs
_ _ [N] Okay
Right.
It's been said that in your early days
You were quite a wild performer that is it true for instance that you attacked your fans in England and were arrested for?
Obscenity on stage.
No _
This is again false publicity
_ Well, he writes to these things about you, but if they're not true _ Journalists _ _
And is this perhaps why you don't like journalists, oh, I love journalists [Bbm] Oh
[A] _ [D] How [G] sad and [A] why [D] do we call [Bb] [A] oh
I'm [D] glad [G] to hear [A] from you [D] all [A] I
Am [G] calling [A] yes, I'm calling [Gb] just to speak to [Bm] you
[G] For [D] I know this night [A] will kill [Ab] me if [A] I can't [D] be with you [G] if I [C] [A] can't be [Dm] with