Chelsea Hotel 2 chords by Leonard Cohen

F      C     Bb    F

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,

      F     C      Dm

You were talking so brave and so sweet;

 F     C     Bb   F

Giving me head on an unmade bed,

     Bb            C

While the limousines wait in the street.

Dm             Bb

Those were the reasons and that was New York,

      F      Am      Dm

We were running for the money and the flesh.

  Bb              F

And that was called love for the workers in song,

     Bb             C

Probably still is for those of them left.

    Bb       F

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

   F        Am      Dm

You just turned your back on the crowd,

Bb               F

You got away,I never once heard you say:

 Bb         F

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

 Bb         F

I need you, I don't need you"

   Bb        Dm   C

And all of that jiving around.

  F      C     Bb    F

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel:

      F     C      Dm

You were famous, your heart was a 🏷Legend.

   F    C          Bb    F

You told me again you preferred handsome men

    Bb            C

But for me you would make an exception.

   Dm             Bb

And clenching your fist for the ones like us

       F      Am      Dm

Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty,

   Bb             F

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

    Bb          C

We are ugly but we have the music."

    Bb       F

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

   F        Am      Dm

You just turned your back on the crowd,

Bb               F

You got away,I never once heard you say:

 Bb         F

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

 Bb         F

I need you, I don't need you"

   Bb          Dm   C

And all of that jiving around.

    F     C     Bb    F

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

  F          C      Dm

I can't keep track of each fallen robin.

   F     C     Bb    F

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,

    Bb                C

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