Chords for Ride - Lana Del Rey Lyrics incl. Monologue

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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ [C] I was in the winter of my [F] life, _ and the men I met along the road were my only summer.
_ [Am] _ At night I fell asleep with visions of [C] myself dancing and laughing and crying with them,
_ three years down the line of being on an endless world [F] tour,
and [C] my memories of them were the only things that sustained me, and my only real happy [Am] times. _ _
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_ _ _ I was a singer, _ not a very popular one.
[Am] I once had dreams of becoming a beautiful poet,
but upon an [F] unfortunate series of events, saw those dreams dashed and divided like a [G] million stars in the night sky,
that I wished on over and over again, [F] sparkling and [Am] broken.
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But [Dm] I didn't really mind, because I knew [Em] that it [F] takes getting everything you ever wanted
and then losing it to [Am] know what true freedom [G] is.
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_ _ When the people I [A] used to know found out [G] what I had been doing, [Dm] how I had been living, they asked me why,
[F] but there's no use in talking to people who have a home.
[Am] They have no [G] idea what it's like [Dm] to seek safety in other people, [Em] for home to be wherever [F] you lie your head.
_ _ [C] _ _ I [F] was always an [C] unusual girl.
My _ _ _ _
_ [Am] mother told me I had a [F] chameleon soul, [C] no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality, _
just an inner [F] indecisiveness [C] that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.
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And if I [F] said I didn't plan for it [C] to turn out this way, I'd be lying.
Because _ _ _ [F] I was born to be the other woman, _ _ [Am] who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone,
_ [F] who had nothing, who wanted everything, _ [G] _ with a fire for every experience and an obsession for [F] freedom
[Am] that terrified me to [G] the point I couldn't [Dm] even talk about,
and pushed [Em] me to a nomadic [F] point of madness that both dazzled and dizzied me.
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_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [F] _
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_ [Em] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] I've been out on [F] that [C] open road _ _ _
_ _ [Am] You can be my full-time [F] daddy while [C] I go
_ Singing _ _ _ _ _ _ blues has [F] been [C] getting old
You _ _ _ _ [Am]
can be my full-time [F] baby, I'll [C] look old _
_ _ Don't break me [F] down _
_ _ I've been driving [Am] too long
_ _ I've been trying to [F] hop _ _ with one pretty [G] song _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] I [Am] hear the birds [G] on the summer [Dm] breeze, I drive fast, I [Em] am up on them [F] at night
_ I'm [Am] trying hard [G] not to get in [Dm] trouble, but I, I [Em] got a war in [F] my lungs
So I just drive, _
_ [G] _ _ [Dm] _ just [Em] drive, _ [F] _ _ _ just _ [Am] _
[G] drive, _ [Dm] _ just _ [Em] _
_ [F] drive
_ _ [C] _ Dying young [F] and playing [C] hard, _ _ _
_ _ _ [Am] that's the way my father [F] made his life [C] in hard _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Drink all day [F] and we [C] talk till dark, _ _ _ _ _ [Am]
that's the way the road dogs [F] do it, lie [C] till dark _
_ _ Don't leave [F] me now, _ _ don't say [Am] goodbye _ _
_ _ Don't turn [F] _ _
around, _ leave me high [G] and dry
_ _ _ _ _ [F] I [Am] hear the birds [G] on the summer [Dm] breeze, I drive fast, [Em] I am up on them [F] at _ night
I'm [Am] trying hard [G] not to get in [Dm] trouble, but I, I [Em] got a war in [F] my lungs
So I just drive, [Am] _
_ [G] _ _ [Dm] _ just _ [Em] _
[F] drive, _ _ just _ _
_ [G] _ drive, [Dm] just _ [Em] _
[F] drive
_ _ _ I'm [Am] kind of feeling [G] like I'm fucking [Dm] crazy, I'm [Em] kind of driving [F] to see stars in my [Am] eyes
I got to be myself [Dm] saying _ I [Em] just drive, [F] I just drive
_ I hear the [G] birds on the summer [Dm] breeze, I drive fast, [Em] I am up [F] on them at night
_ _ I'm [Am] trying hard not to [G] get in [Dm] trouble, but I, I [Em] got a war [F] in my lungs
So I just drive, _ [G] _ _ _ [Dm] just _ [Em]
drive, [F] _ _ _ just _ _
[Am] _ _ [G] drive, [D] just _ [Em] drive
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_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [F] _ Every night I used to pray that I'd find [Am] my people, _ [G] and [Dm] finally I did
[Em] On the open road, [F] _ _ _
_ we [Am] had nothing to lose, [G] nothing to [Dm] gain, nothing we desired anymore
[Em] Except [F] to make our lives into a work of art
_ [Am] Live [G] fast, _ [Dm]
die young, _ _ [Em] be [F] wild, and have fun
I [Am] believe in [G] the country America [Dm] used to be, _ I believe in [Em] the person I want to [F] become
I believe in the freedom of the open road, [G] and my motto [Dm] is the same as ever
_ _ [Em] I believe in the [F] kindness of strangers, _ _ and when I'm at [Am] war with myself, [G] I [Dm] ride, _ I [Em] just ride
_ [F] _ _ _
_ Who are you?
Are you [G] in touch with all of your [Dm] darkest fantasies?
Have [Em] you created a life for [F] yourself, where you can experience them?
_ [Am] I have, [G] I [Dm] am fucking crazy, _ _ [Em] _ _ [F] _ _ _
but I am free
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