Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man movie - Chelsea Hotel No. 2 lyrics

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Song by Rufus Wainwright<br /><br>

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel, <br>

you were talking so brave and so sweet, <br>

giving me head on the unmade bed, <br>

while the limousines wait in the street. <br>

Those were the reasons and that was New York, <br>

we were running for the money and the flesh. <br>

And that was called love for the workers in song <br>

probably still is for those of them left. <br>

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Ah but you got away, didn't you babe, <br>

you just turned your back on the crowd, <br>

you got away, I never once heard you say, <br>

I need you, I don't need you, <br>

I need you, I don't need you <br>

and all of that jiving around. <br>

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I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel <br>

you were famous, your heart was a legend. <br>

You told me again you preferred handsome men <br>

but for me you would make an exception. <br>

And clenching your fist for the ones like us <br>

who are oppressed by the figures of beauty, <br>

you fixed yourself, and said, "Well never mind, <br>

we are ugly but we have the music." <br>

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And then you got away, didn't you babe <br>

you just turned your back on the crowd, <br>

you got away, I never once heard you say, <br>

I need you, I don't need you, <br>

I need you, I don't need you <br>

and all of that jiving around. <br>

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I don't mean to suggest that I loved you the best, <br>

I can't keep track of each fallen robin. <br>

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel, <br>

that's all, I don't even think of you that often.<br>

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