Chelsea Hotel #2 Chords by Leonard Cohen

[Start]

[Verse]
F   C                        Bb      F    
■ I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
         C                       Dm   
You were talking so brave and so sweet
C                     Bb     F  
Giving me head on the unmade bed
          Bb                     C     
While the limousines wait in the street
Dm                         Bb               
Those were the reasons and that was New York
        F                             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
                                 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    
And all of that jiving around
C   F        C               Bb      F    
■ I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
         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                           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              
And then you got away didn't you baby
                                 Dm   
You just turned your back on the crowd


[Chorus]
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    
And all of that jiving around


[Outro]
C         F       C                        Bb       F
■ I don't mean to suggest that I loved you the best ■
                                  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 even think of you that often


[End]