Chelsea Hotel  No. 2    (intro)    (midi)

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1. I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,

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    you were talking so brave and so sweet.

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    Giving me head on the unmade bed,

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    while the limousines wait in the street.

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    Those were the reasons and that was New York,

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    we were running for the money and the flesh.

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    And that was called love for the workers in song,

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    probably still is for those of them left.

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    Ah, but you got away, didn't you, baby?

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    You just turned your back on the crowd.

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    You got away, I never once heard you say,

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    "I need you, I don't need you, I need you, I don't need you."

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    And all of that jiving around.

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3. I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,

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    you were famous, your heart was a legend.

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    You told me again you preferred handsome men,

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    but for me you would make an exception.

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    And clenching your fist for the ones like us,

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    who are oppressed by the figures of beauty,

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    you fixed yourself, you said, "Well, never mind,

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    we are ugly but we have the music."

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    And then but you got away, didn't you, baby?

                                      Em              Am

    You just turned your back on the crowd.

       F                                          C

    You got away, I never once heard you say,

          F                         C                 F                         C

    "I need you, I don't need you, I need you, I don't need you."

            F                        Am        - G

    And all of that jiving around.

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3. I don't mean to suggest that I loved you the best,

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    I can't keep track of each fallen robin.

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    I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,

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    That's all, I don't think of you that often.

(capo 5th)        

    (Leonard Cohen)