Intro to Chelsea Hotel N°2 - Leonard Cohen

'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 jiving around.'

Fragment to the song.

INTRO TO CHELSEA HOTEL N°2
Late in the morning, early in the everning.
I noticed a young woman in that elevator.
She was riding it with as much delight as I was.

Even though she commanded huge audiences,
riding that elevator was the only thing
she really knew how to do.

My lung gathered my courage. I said to her
'Are you looking for someone?' She said 'Yes,
I'm looking for Kris Kristofferson. I said
'little lady, you're in luck, I am Kris Kristofferson.'
Those were generous times.

Even though she knew that I was someone shorter than
Kris Kristofferson, she never led on.
Great generosity prevailed in those doom decades.

Anyhow I wrote this song for Janis Joplin at the Chelsea Hotel.