I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel

You were talking so brave and so sweet

Givin' me head on the unmade bed

While the limousines wait in the street

Those were the reasons that was New York

We were runnin' for the money and the flesh

That was called the love for the workers in song

Probably still is for those of them left

And then you got away didn't you babe

You just turned your back on the crowd

You got away I never once heard you say

I need you

I don't need you

I need you

I don't need you

And all of that jivin' around

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel

You were famous your heart was a legend

You told me again you preferred handsome men

But for me you would make an exception

Clenching your fist for the ones like us

Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty

You fixed yourself you said well nevermind

We are ugly but we have the music

And then you got away didn't you babe

Just turned your back on the crowd

You got away I never once heard you say

I need you

I don't need you

I need you

I don't need you

And all of that jivin' around

I don't mean to suggest

That I loved you the best

I can't keep track

Of each fallen Robin

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel

That's all I don't think of you that often