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.