[Verses]
[C] [F] [C]
I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,
[G] [Am]
You were talking so brave and so sweet;
[C] [G] [F] [C]
Giving me head on the unmade bed,
[F] [G]
While the limousines waiting the street.
[Am] [F]
Those were the reasons and that was New York,
[C] [E/B] [Am]
We were running for the money and the flesh.
[F] [C]
And that was called love for the workers in song,
[F] [G]
Probably still is for those of them left.
[F] [C]
Ah, but you got away, didn't you babe,
[E/B] [Am]
You just turned your back on the crowd,
[F] [C]
You got away,I never once heard you say:
[F] [C]
"I need you,I don't need you,
[F] [C]
I need you, I don't need you"
[F] [Am] [G]
And all of that jiving around.
[C] [G] [F] [C]
I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel:
[G] [Am]
You were famous, your heart was a legend.
[C] [G] [F] [C]
You told me again you preferred handsome men
[F] [G]
But for me you would make an exception.
[Am] [F]
And clenching your fist for the ones like us
[C] [E/B] [Am]
Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty,
[F] [C]
You fixed yourself, you said, "Well never mind,
[F] [G]
We are ugly but we have the music."
[F] [C]
And then you got away, didn't you baby,
[E/B] [Am]
You just turned your back on the crowd,
[F] [C]
You got away, I never once heard you say:
[F] [C]
"I need you,I don't need you,
[F] [C]
I need you, I don't need you"
[F] [Am] [G]
And all of that jiving around.
[C] [G] [F] [C]
I don't mean to suggest that I loved you the best,
[G] [Am]
I can't keep track of each fallen robin.
[C] [G] [F] [C]
I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,
[F] [G]
That's all, aI don't even think of you that often.
