The Chelsea Hotel Oral *** Song - Jeffrey Lewis.mp3

[00:00.00] 作曲 : Lewis
[00:09.78]walkin' up 23rd street
[00:12.27]i was tired and alone
[00:14.64]it was late my housemate
[00:16.77]would be asleep when i got home
[00:19.11]the sign ahead glowin' red
[00:21.60]said the chelsea hotel
[00:24.39]where nancy and syd vicious
[00:26.31]and my friend dave once dwelled
[00:32.97]the street was black under my feet
[00:35.58]wich continued their walkin'
[00:37.83]though i was vaguely interested
[00:40.32]in the folks behind me talkin'
[00:43.26]two guys maybe gay
[00:44.94]wearin' Reber type suits
[00:47.13]and a girl wearin' glasses
[00:49.44]who looked kinda cute
[00:51.69]her hair was short and curly
[00:53.43]she had a tattoo on her back
[00:56.16]wich i could see cos her red shirt
[00:59.01]was sleeveless with straps
[01:00.81]but i only saw this later
[01:03.48]not in my first glance
[01:05.22]but i could hear her talkin behind me
[01:08.01]and as if by chance
[01:09.84]she was tryin' to describe
[01:12.63]a song i knew well
[01:15.33]the leonard cohen song
[01:16.83]about the chelsea hotel
[01:28.68]and i smiled a smile to myself
[01:32.07]when she said
[01:33.60]that was the song where he talked about
[01:35.76]someone giving him head
[01:38.34]on the bed was unmade
[01:40.20]and how the song was outrageous
[01:43.11]and that's when i got
[01:44.52]uncharacteristically courageous
[01:47.40]i could left the three of them laughin'
[01:49.83]and just gone on home
[01:52.08]but i turned and i faced her
[01:54.15]and i said leonard cohen?
[01:58.47].....just like that....
[02:04.92]she was shocked and surprised
[02:07.47]but she looked very happy
[02:09.87]that she now had a witness
[02:12.21]to back up her story
[02:14.91]she looked at me
[02:16.29]with her spectacled eyes
[02:19.05]and said "see i told u"
[02:21.12]to the two others guys
[02:23.64]my tale might have ending right there and then
[02:27.93]but we started talkin' about leornard cohen
[02:32.22]how his lyrics were cool
[02:34.17]and how he sang so sincere
[02:37.11]it must have been true
[02:38.88]and it happened right here
[02:41.73]usually women right of the bat
[02:44.10]don't find me that great
[02:45.69]but there we were laughin', scrollin'
[02:48.57]like we could really releate
[02:49.68]although we didn't mention the head line
[02:52.59]it was alluded
[02:53.79]and her conversation was better
[02:55.77]cos her friends were not included
[02:58.11]the guys were more into each other
[03:00.45]at least that's how it seemed to me
[03:03.42]i heard the faint knocking of opportunity
[03:07.56]although it's easy for me now
[03:10.26]upon my looking back
[03:12.27]to think of all the things
[03:13.62]i could have said
[03:14.67]to make me the mac
[03:16.50]just keep the sad truth in mind
[03:19.02]as i tell this to you
[03:20.73]that we really only talked
[03:23.40]for a minute or two
[03:26.01]and i never got her name
[03:27.81]and she never got mine
[03:29.82]but in this couple short minutes
[03:32.13]we had a pretty good time
[03:44.43]and on top of that
[03:45.69]tho u may not believe it
[03:47.19]you know what she says to me next
[03:50.70]as i repeat it
[03:52.59]that line about gettin a blow job
[03:54.63]that leonard sings
[03:57.12]she said it made her
[03:58.35]want to do naughty things
[04:01.38]right about then
[04:02.88]i should have asked
[04:04.17]if she knew
[04:05.85]what the chelsea charged
[04:07.71]if we got a room for two
[04:10.02]but i didn't and i know
[04:12.30]i'm a schmuck, don't you doubt it
[04:15.15]the only thing i did
[04:16.41]was write this stupid song about it
[04:19.38]if i was leonard cohen
[04:20.76]or some others song writing master
[04:23.13]i 'd know to first get the oral ***
[04:25.17]and then write the song after
[04:27.78]you can practise writing songs
[04:29.82]about romance every day
[04:32.43]but if you haven't loved
[04:34.08]then you'll have nothing to say
[04:36.36]we could have given each other head
[04:38.55]on leonard same unmade bed
[04:40.80]but i was too shy to suggest it
[04:43.92]and so instead
[04:45.57]when the three of them stopped
[04:47.61]to look through a pub window
[04:50.79]i said good night
[04:52.65]tho i had not quite meant to
[04:55.23]and waved as we walked tho
[04:57.60]i would not forget her
[04:59.97]especially when she mysteriously said
[05:02.37]see you later
[05:12.96]now every time i'm walking
[05:15.21]i hope that we'd meet
[05:17.01]and on purpose
[05:18.42]i always go up 23rd street
[05:21.48]where the sign glowin' red
[05:23.64]says the chelsea hotel
[05:26.31]where nancy and syd vicious
[05:28.20]and my friend dave's once dwelled
[05:30.15]life doesn't work out
[05:32.67]the way it does in old songs
[05:35.16]that's why we sing new ones
[05:36.81]to say what really goes on
[05:38.85]so if i ever see her again
[05:41.79]and we pick up
[05:42.63]right we were ended
[05:44.46]maybe i'll play her this song
[05:45.90]maybe she won't get too offended
[05:50.07]and listen i tell u why
[05:52.71]there's more to this situation
[05:54.48]than meets the eye
[05:57.36]you may think it's sad
[05:59.55]you may think it's pathetic
[06:01.38]but i sing this song
[06:03.00]and that she will never know it
[06:06.84]but think a minute 'bout what that means
[06:10.56]and you'll realise it's actually a wonderful thing
[06:14.19]that all around the world
[06:15.78]there maybe folks singin' tunes
[06:18.48]for the love of others folks
[06:20.52]they barely knew
[06:22.86]and it puts a smile on my face
[06:25.56]yes, it do
[06:26.43]and let me tell you
[06:28.29]you ought to be smillin too
[06:30.51]cos the next time you feelin'
[06:32.73]kinda lonesome and blue
[06:34.71]just think that someone somewhere
[06:37.14]might be singin about you
[06:40.77]who knows if i'll ever see her again
[06:43.44]maybe we'll see this whole time
[06:45.90]she could have been singing about me
[06:49.98]probably not
[06:52.11]but it could be