Chelsea Hotel #2 - Leonard Cohen
[Verse 1]
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I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,[/tab]
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You were talking so brave and so sweet.[/tab]
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Giving me head on the unmade bed[/tab]
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While the limousines wait in the street[/tab]
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Those were the reasons and that was New York,[/tab]
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We were running for the money and the flesh[/tab]
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And that was called love for the workers in song,[/tab]
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Probably still is for those of them left.[/tab]
[Chorus]
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And then you got away, didn t you, baby?[/tab]
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You just turned your back on the crowd.[/tab]
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You got away, I never once heard you say,[/tab]
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"I need you, I don t need you, I need you, I don t need you,"[/tab]
Bb Dm C (To lead into next verse).
And all of that jiving around.
[Verse 2]
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I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,[/tab]
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You were famous, your heart was a legend.[/tab]
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You told me again you preferred handsome men,[/tab]
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But for me you would make an exception.[/tab]
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And clenching your fist for the ones like us[/tab]
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Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty,[/tab]
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You fixed yourself, you said, "Well, never mind,[/tab]
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We are ugly but we have the music."[/tab]
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And then you got away, didn t you, baby?[/tab]
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You just turned your back on the crowd.[/tab]
[Chorus]
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You got away, I never once heard you say,[/tab]
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"I need you, I don t need you, I need you, I don t need you,"[/tab]
Bb Dm C (To lead into next verse).
And all of that jiving around.
[Verse 3]
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I don t mean to suggest that I loved you the best[/tab]
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I can t keep track of each fallen robin.[/tab]
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I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,[/tab]
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That all, I don t think of you that often.[/tab]