Chelsea Hotel #2
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About Chelsea Hotel #2
"Chelsea Hotel" is an intimate eulogy. Cohen bids farewell to "fallen robin" Janis Joplin. The tone is somewhat ironic (in the way of "I Get Along Without You Very Well" and the lyrics suggest a shared vulnerability. It's a haunting melody, and the language is explicit: ". The song is not maudlin or sentimental. There is no reference to Joplin's death (heroin overdose) per se, rather, the lyric imbues a measure of strength and self-affirmation rather than the despair her death suggests. .
Chelsea Hotel #2 Lyrics
[00:01.93]I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
[00:08.92]You were talkin' so brave and so sweet
[00:14.07]Givin' me head on the unmade bed
[00:20.10]While the limousines wait in the street
[00:26.00]Those were the reasons an' that was New York
[00:30.01]We were runnin' for the money and the flesh
[00:36.12]And that was called love for the workers in song
[00:41.12]Probably still is for those of them left
[00:47.20]Ah, but you got away, didn't you, baby?
[00:52.39]You just turned your back on the crowd
[00:57.36]You got away, I never once heard you say
[01:02.36]I need you, I don't need you
[01:07.34]I need you, I don't need you
[01:13.41]And all of that jiving around
[01:18.60]
[01:21.47]And I remember you well in Chelsea Hotel
[01:26.51]You were famous, your heart was a legend
[01:32.52]You told me again you preferred handsome men
[01:37.54]But for me, you would make an exception
[01:42.64]And clenching your fist for the ones like us
[01:47.61]Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty
[01:52.75]You fixed yourself, you said, "Well, never mind
[01:58.78]We are ugly but we have the music"
[02:03.73]And you got away, didn't you, baby?
[02:08.86]You just turned your back on the crowd
[02:14.85]You got away, I never once heard you say
[02:18.89]I need you, I don't need you
[02:24.83]I need you, I don't need you
[02:30.96]And all of that jiving around
[02:35.73]
[02:37.97]I don't mean to suggest that I loved you the best
[02:44.05]I can't keep track of each fallen robin
[02:50.06]I remember you well in Chelsea Hotel
[02:54.00]That's all, I don't even think of you that often
[02:57.80]
[00:08.92]You were talkin' so brave and so sweet
[00:14.07]Givin' me head on the unmade bed
[00:20.10]While the limousines wait in the street
[00:26.00]Those were the reasons an' that was New York
[00:30.01]We were runnin' for the money and the flesh
[00:36.12]And that was called love for the workers in song
[00:41.12]Probably still is for those of them left
[00:47.20]Ah, but you got away, didn't you, baby?
[00:52.39]You just turned your back on the crowd
[00:57.36]You got away, I never once heard you say
[01:02.36]I need you, I don't need you
[01:07.34]I need you, I don't need you
[01:13.41]And all of that jiving around
[01:18.60]
[01:21.47]And I remember you well in Chelsea Hotel
[01:26.51]You were famous, your heart was a legend
[01:32.52]You told me again you preferred handsome men
[01:37.54]But for me, you would make an exception
[01:42.64]And clenching your fist for the ones like us
[01:47.61]Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty
[01:52.75]You fixed yourself, you said, "Well, never mind
[01:58.78]We are ugly but we have the music"
[02:03.73]And you got away, didn't you, baby?
[02:08.86]You just turned your back on the crowd
[02:14.85]You got away, I never once heard you say
[02:18.89]I need you, I don't need you
[02:24.83]I need you, I don't need you
[02:30.96]And all of that jiving around
[02:35.73]
[02:37.97]I don't mean to suggest that I loved you the best
[02:44.05]I can't keep track of each fallen robin
[02:50.06]I remember you well in Chelsea Hotel
[02:54.00]That's all, I don't even think of you that often
[02:57.80]
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