Key: C
C
G
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 wait in the street
Am
F
Those were the reasons and that was New York
C
Em/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?
Em/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
Em/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?
Em/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, I don't even think of you that often