Chelsea Hotel 2 chords by Leonard Cohen

Chords with lyrics

FF      C majorC     Bb majorBb    FF

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,

      FF     C majorC      DmDm

You were talking so brave and so sweet;

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Giving me head on an unmade bed,

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While the limousines wait in the street.

DmDm             Bb majorBb

Those were the reasons and that was New York,

      FF      A minorAm      DmDm

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.

    Bb majorBb       FF

Ah, but you got away, didn't you babe,

   FF        A minorAm      DmDm

You just turned your back on the crowd,

Bb majorBb               FF

You got away,I never once heard you say:

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

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I need you, I don't need you"

   Bb majorBb        DmDm   C majorC

And all of that jiving around.

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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."

    Bb majorBb       FF

Ah, but you got away, didn't you babe,

   FF        A minorAm      DmDm

You just turned your back on the crowd,

Bb majorBb               FF

You got away,I never once heard you say:

 Bb majorBb         FF

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

 Bb majorBb         FF

I need you, I don't need you"

   Bb majorBb          DmDm   C majorC

And all of that jiving around.

    FF     C majorC     Bb majorBb    FF

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.