walkin' up 23rd street
 i was tired and alone
 it was late my housemate
 would be asleep when i got home
 the sign ahead glowin' red
 said the chelsea hotel
 where nancy and syd vicious
 and my friend dave once dwelled

 the street was black under my feet
 wich continued their walkin'
 though i was vaguely interested
 in the folks behind me talkin'
 two guys maybe [bad word]  wearin' Reber type suits
 and a girl wearin' glasses
 who looked kinda cute
 her hair was short and curly
 she had a tattoo on her back
 wich i could see cos her red shirt
 was sleeveless with straps
 but i only saw this later
 not in my first glance
 but i could hear her talkin behind me
 and as if by chance
 she was tryin' to describe
 a song i knew well
 the leonard cohen song
 about the chelsea hotel

 and i smiled a smile to myself
 when she said
 that was the song where he talked about
 someone giving him head
 on the bed was unmade
 and how the song was outrageous
 and that's when i got
 uncaracteristicly courageous
 i could left the three of them laughin'
 and just gone on home
 but i turned and i faced her
 and i said leonard cohen?
 .....just like that....

 she was shocked and surprised
 but she looked very happy
 that she now had a witness
 to back up her story
 she looked at me
 with her spectacled eyes
 and said "see i told u"
 to the two others guys

 my tale might have ending right there and then
 but we started talkin' about leornard cohen
 how his lyrics were cool
 and how he sang so sincere
 it must have been [bad word]  and it happened right here
 usually women right of the bat
 don't find me that great
 but there we were laughin', scrollin'
 like we could really releate
 although we didn't mention the head line
 it was alluded
 and her conversation was better
 cos her friends were not included
 the guys were more into each other
 at least that's how it seemed to me
 i heard the faint knocking of opportunity
 although it's easy for me now
 upon my looking back
 to think of all the things
 i could have said
 to make me the mac
 just keep the sad [bad word] in mind
 as i tell this to you
 that we really only talked
 for a minute or two
 and i never got her name
 and she never got mine
 but in this couple short minutes
 we had a pretty good time

 and on top of that
 tho u may not believe it
 you know what she says to me next
 as i repeat it
 that line about gettin a [bad word]  that leonard sings
 she said it made her
 want to do naughty things
 right about then
 i should have asked
 if she knew
 what the chelsea charged
 if we got a room for two
 but i didn't and i know
 i'm a [bad word]  don't you doubt it
 the only thing i did
 was write this stupid song about it

 if i was leonard cohen
 or some others song writing master
 i 'd know to first get the oral 
 and then write the song after
 you can practise writing songs
 about romance every day
 but if you haven't loved
 then you'll have nothing to say
 we could have given each other head
 on leonard same unmade bed
 but i was too shy to suggest it
 and so instead
 when the three of them stopped
 to look through a pub window
 i said good night
 tho i had not quite meant to
 and waved as we walked tho
 i would not forget her
 especially when she mysteriously said
 see you later

 now every time i'm walking
 i hope that we'd meet
 and on purpose
 i always go up 23rd street
 where the sign glowin' red
 says the chelsea hotel
 where nancy and syd vicious
 and my friend dave's once dwelled
 life doesn't work out
 the way it does in old songs
 that's why we sing new ones
 to say what really g