Cohen Leonard Chelsea Hotel No 2 Lyrics

Chelsea Hotel No 2 Lyrics

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
you were talking so brave and so
sweet
giving me head on the unmade bed
while the limosines wait in the
street.
Those were the reasons and that was New York
we were running for
the money and the flesh
And that was called love for the workers in
song
probably still is for those of them left.
Ah but you got away didn't
you baby
you just turned your back on the crowd
You got away I never once
heard you say
I need you, I don't need you
I need you, I don't need
you
and all of that jiving around.
I remember you well in the Chelsea
Hotel
you were famous you heart was a legend
You told me again you
preferred handsome men
but for me you would make an exception.
And
clenching your fist for ones like us
who were oppresssed by the figures of
beauty
You fixed yourself yourself you said never mind
we are ugly but we
have the music.
And then you got away didn't you baby
you just turned you
back on the crowd
You got away I never once heard you say
I need you, I
don't need you
I need you, I don't need you
and all of that jiving
around.
I don't mean to suggest that I loved you the best
I can't keep
track of each fallen robin
I remember you well in the Chelsea
Hotel
that's all I don't think of you that often.