Lana Del Rey - Chelsea Hotel No 2

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  • Опубликовано: 26 мар 2013
  • Lana Del Rey - Chelsea Hotel No 2 (Official Music Video)
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    Lana Del Rey - Chelsea Hotel No 2 (Lyrics)
    I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
    You were talking so brave and so sweet
    Giving me head on the unmade bed
    While the limousines wait in the street
    But those were the reasons and that was New York
    We were running for the money and the flesh
    And that was called love for the workers in song
    Probably still is for those of them left
    Ah, but you got away, didn't you baby?
    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 jiving 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
    And clenching your fist for the ones like us
    Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty
    You fixed yourself, you said, "Well, never mind
    We are ugly, but we have the music."
    Ah, but you got away, didn't you baby?
    You just turned your back on the crowd
    And 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
    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 even think of you that often
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Комментарии • 11 тыс.

  • @xuanthonguyen2418
    @xuanthonguyen2418 8 лет назад +3816

    "we're ugly but we have music" sum up my whole life

    • @costantina1170
      @costantina1170 6 лет назад +6

      you know it gurl😂😂

    • @thalassafischer5211
      @thalassafischer5211 6 лет назад +39

      Leonard Cohen wrote it about Janis Joplin

    • @Europa2099
      @Europa2099 5 лет назад +11

      "we're ugly but most of our family was killed by the Americans in WW2" sum up my life

    • @shadypenguinX
      @shadypenguinX 5 лет назад +1

      Thalassa Fischer he just called her ugly oh well.

    • @christinash2235
      @christinash2235 5 лет назад +14

      Janis Joplin said it. She was a plain woman. But beautiful. I don't know, I think she was fine but she wasn't Hollywood.

  • @endlesummer_
    @endlesummer_ 9 лет назад +3425

    We are ugly but we have the music

    • @MisterSwaginator
      @MisterSwaginator 9 лет назад +38

      ozifest123 It's a lyric from this song lol

    • @LaMuffin-il7ei
      @LaMuffin-il7ei 9 лет назад +25

      Wow, I read this in the exact same moment she was singing it ._.
      Anyway, love that line

    • @weile4u
      @weile4u 9 лет назад +10

      nono, this is perfect singing, the ideal song for Lana, no-one could do this better!

    • @IceCreamAndCake92
      @IceCreamAndCake92 9 лет назад +19

      Rudolf Weiler except leonard cohen who fucking wrote it

    • @weile4u
      @weile4u 9 лет назад +2

      ... but couldn't sing it so well!

  • @kimmy2631
    @kimmy2631 2 года назад +4544

    This masterpiece was released 9 years and it’s still not on spotify.

    • @juanadarmme
      @juanadarmme 2 года назад +84

      Came here 'cause I couldn't find it on spoty :(

    • @markunf1
      @markunf1 2 года назад +6

      IKR!!! 😢

    • @ananyasarkar2818
      @ananyasarkar2818 2 года назад

      Probably because the original Leonard Cohen version is already there and isn't a cover by a racist, white supremacist.

    • @shapedheart3549
      @shapedheart3549 2 года назад +5

      Fr

    • @claracampos45
      @claracampos45 2 года назад +4

      Yep 🥲

  • @edermartins7180
    @edermartins7180 3 года назад +501

    "I don't even think of you... that often" - I didn't know this sentence could touch so deep in my heart and mean so much to me.

    • @coscinaippogrifo
      @coscinaippogrifo 2 месяца назад +3

      True... Leonard Cohen was a true genius... RIP

  • @deadbird1229
    @deadbird1229 6 лет назад +3588

    Lana's lower, more melancholic vocals trigger an instinctive reaction of sadness in me. It doesn't even matter what words she's singing. The soul is all in her voice.

  • @nattyfknsmokes
    @nattyfknsmokes 8 лет назад +2427

    the ending is as abrupt as the endings of the essays i write at 3 in the morning due that same day

    • @manicpixiedreamdango
      @manicpixiedreamdango 8 лет назад +64

      OH, THE ACCURACY

    • @nattjett88
      @nattjett88 8 лет назад +19

      +Natassja Casillas let me love this comment.

    • @ysabelcastro2816
      @ysabelcastro2816 8 лет назад +1

      ahaha TRUE

    • @PrettyPatriciia
      @PrettyPatriciia 8 лет назад +10

      +Natassja Casillas
      Actually doing so as I type.... lol

    • @chloep4500
      @chloep4500 8 лет назад +19

      +Natassja Casillas Looool litterally this was so perfectly timed. Currently trying to finish up my own, it's around midnight here and I'm becoming more blunt by the minute

  • @thomroe
    @thomroe 4 года назад +2934

    “that’s all, I don’t think of you that often” like if you felt that

    • @adenaquintana2189
      @adenaquintana2189 4 года назад +8

      Same! Thought it was just me lol

    • @Beebeebee111
      @Beebeebee111 4 года назад +14

      thom roe that line always hits me

    • @littlesister2609
      @littlesister2609 4 года назад +20

      That shit was like the thorn of a rose

    • @MintyMindedThinks
      @MintyMindedThinks 3 года назад +36

      I don’t think he meant it, his syllable count was off in that particular verse. He (Lenord Cohen) was (and still is) a master songwriter. I think he put that little bit extra in on purpose. The way we tell ourselves lost loves don’t haunt us. Or maybe he did mean it, but it’s hard to imagine such a heart-felt songwriter didn’t have big feelings about such a true and beautiful soul.

    • @eddyalvarez8351
      @eddyalvarez8351 3 года назад +10

      It touched all my vital organs.

  • @herpiss
    @herpiss 3 года назад +1886

    The one word to describe her music: home. It’s home to me.

  • @PalmurcioWorld
    @PalmurcioWorld 8 лет назад +6833

    For me this is Lana at her best. No remixes, no big instrumental, no big backgrownd voices and choirs...just her. So simple and beautiful. Her, her voice, a microphone, a guitar and those sad eyes. I'm a huge fan of Leonard Cohen and I could feel every word of this cover. This is beautiful. I'd love her to release more songs like this, like Yayo...just her voice. Her unique voice. So simple, so beautiful.

    • @Addych
      @Addych 8 лет назад +1

      Abs

    • @Kingdomplains
      @Kingdomplains 8 лет назад +13

      I couldn't have said it better

    • @andreaharthorn4327
      @andreaharthorn4327 8 лет назад +38

      PalmurcioWorld I agree. And this reminds me so much of her May Jailer days. I wish she would officially release this and her old, simple, music for sale!

    • @JeffCae
      @JeffCae 8 лет назад

      PalmurcioWorld I loved you comment!

    • @PalmurcioWorld
      @PalmurcioWorld 8 лет назад +9

      ***** I've just did it and I really liked it. I didn't know about that song, thank you very much! Lana has a very special and personal voice, that's the kind of songs I like of her, where I can hear her.

  • @monsterfreak8818
    @monsterfreak8818 7 лет назад +5155

    we are ugly, but we have Lana's music

  • @wolfieafo
    @wolfieafo 7 месяцев назад +197

    Lana is for sure one the artists that gonna be remembered forever.

  • @fromfuturespast
    @fromfuturespast 4 года назад +5316

    i was suicidal once like alone in a bathroom ready to go. This song was on repeat, smoehting about this melody made me pull out of. I am a drifter not some hotel trash. Some distant memory, i am a story teller. I spread love. Its about the moments we make. This song in particular struck a cord, is very important to me. I can sing/play both versions. I really think without this on repeat in the shower i dunno. I was scary. thank you for being Lana. We need you now more then ever. I would love this on vinyl. I wanna spin it now.

    • @scythetrill4683
      @scythetrill4683 4 года назад +359

      Thank God you’re still here. Your story touched me

    • @Benji-op4xi
      @Benji-op4xi 4 года назад +159

      I’m glad you’re still here 💓

    • @Huszelll
      @Huszelll 4 года назад +8

      Morras mecas

    • @achilloryenrfr_2722
      @achilloryenrfr_2722 3 года назад +38

      Lots of love over you 😜

    • @MsWhitegirl16
      @MsWhitegirl16 3 года назад +66

      Music can save a soul ❤️

  • @kimberlysashel
    @kimberlysashel 7 лет назад +1854

    This song makes me feel better about being ugly

    • @evanzeis8632
      @evanzeis8632 6 лет назад +27

      Barry Celtic we don’t have “the music” but at least we have people like Lana who do lol

    • @shavonne4831
      @shavonne4831 4 года назад +3

      LMAO!
      I hope you’re joking tho...

    • @constantinogonzalez4156
      @constantinogonzalez4156 4 года назад +34

      You’re not ugly. I can take you out on a date if you want and prove to you that nobody is ugly, people can love a brain better than a body.

    • @smhmyhead666
      @smhmyhead666 4 года назад +6

      But you ain't ugly 🤔🤔
      You're beautiful

    • @alyssr
      @alyssr 4 года назад +4

      smh my head you are a good person

  • @agunsux
    @agunsux 7 лет назад +2675

    Lana pick the right song. Leonard must be happy up there.

  • @vc5803
    @vc5803 5 лет назад +875

    been a leonard cohen fan longer than lana's been alive, i can't even begin to tell you how perfect this cover is. hits the mark.

    • @seanbryant-smith5662
      @seanbryant-smith5662 2 года назад +1

      Couldn't have put it better myself. Succinct !!!

    • @dgmisal1979
      @dgmisal1979 Год назад +20

      Ditto... been listening for decades but this joins Rufus Wainwrights cover of Hallelujah as the best of the best...

  • @jasminas4121
    @jasminas4121 4 года назад +708

    the amount of times i’ve cried to this song has to be unhealthy

  • @666TeenageWhore
    @666TeenageWhore 8 лет назад +206

    The way Lana pronounces the word "baby" in her songs is probably the most important reason I love her...

  • @surnersingh8399
    @surnersingh8399 8 лет назад +1425

    in the middle of the night watching this video in a dark room with headfones on.... guys I'm experiencing heavens!!!!

    • @TheDigga77
      @TheDigga77 8 лет назад +6

      I'm doing the same. 😊

    • @papillonnoir1110
      @papillonnoir1110 7 лет назад +1

      Same

    • @palbuga94
      @palbuga94 7 лет назад +8

      It's always the best way to enjoy good music!

    • @yolito69ful
      @yolito69ful 7 лет назад +3

      literally me rn... couldn't be happier

    • @MrAdrianoCBB
      @MrAdrianoCBB 7 лет назад +4

      Definitely you were! I'm having this same feeling at this moment. Heaven really exists! ;-}

  • @bish8256
    @bish8256 6 лет назад +871

    This song is genuinely just so sad. Its about feeling something more after something seen as a one night stand, but there was a sophistication and mystery behind it. That’s why the ending is so abrupt. Its like when Leonard wrote it, he had to end it there before crying.

    • @azrael4771
      @azrael4771 Год назад +16

      Also it was written about janis joplin

    • @bradleycampbell5178
      @bradleycampbell5178 Год назад +10

      The song is actually about Janis Joplin 😁

    • @memememe9543
      @memememe9543 Год назад +8

      It isnt really about feeling something more though? The last line is literally “I dont even think of you that often”.

    • @ihatemickiegee
      @ihatemickiegee Год назад +12

      @@memememe9543 well, he was speaking about a place in time. you can go by maybe not thinking of someone every day or all the time, but when thinking of that time or place, they are the brightest star in that flash of memory and it’s extremely intense. but at the same time, following the other lyrics, it almost sounds like it was an ironic line. like “oh, i love you, but don’t worry i give up, don’t feel bad about walking away” . either way it’s powerful (imo)

    • @alyssr
      @alyssr 9 месяцев назад

      its kind of ironic, isnt it? @@memememe9543

  • @moximoz7374
    @moximoz7374 4 года назад +199

    Leonard Cohen being sung by a woman with the beauty spoken about in his work is a pure bliss. The man, I consider the epitome of genuine masculinity, his words coming out of the mouth of the woman with the suave voice that will forever make me feel ageless in all the right places, its golden. I wish Lana would sing more of his songs. I wonder if there's more out there.

  • @MarinaAndTheDevil
    @MarinaAndTheDevil 8 лет назад +4660

    she looks so beautiful from 00:00 to 03:39

  • @AirForceKrissy
    @AirForceKrissy 9 лет назад +570

    This is the type of song that you turn your music up loud, lay down and watch the blue, starry sky to while thinking about everything that matters and begin to shed that one unexpected tear and realize how far you've come and slowly close your eyes..starts to drift into the mind..

    • @reginarodriguez2210
      @reginarodriguez2210 9 лет назад +2

      Wow this is deep I want to cry now

    • @00AssassinOfkings000
      @00AssassinOfkings000 9 лет назад +1

      Thts what i was doing before i saw this comment :,(

    • @AirForceKrissy
      @AirForceKrissy 9 лет назад

      00AssassinOfkings000 sorry to hear that

    • @mariechavez8967
      @mariechavez8967 8 лет назад +1

      Yesss same like you could almost just drift away into sleep and forget about everything...

    • @VictorGolobovante
      @VictorGolobovante 8 лет назад +2

      this is a truly beautiful description of Lana's music.

  • @shanemac5366
    @shanemac5366 3 года назад +393

    Leonard Cohen wrote this song about Janis Joplin.

    • @savannahjones4195
      @savannahjones4195 3 года назад +12

      Really? :,) damn that’s sweet I hope that’s true

    • @warioinpersona
      @warioinpersona 3 года назад +26

      Right.. and Lana sung this song for Amy Winehouse 💔

    • @juliarocha4637
      @juliarocha4637 3 года назад +1

      @@warioinpersona wait... really?

    • @troyjacobsson9609
      @troyjacobsson9609 3 года назад

      @@warioinpersona I hope not

    • @sherryj738
      @sherryj738 3 года назад +2

      Leonard Cohen....fantastico

  • @LAdreamingxo
    @LAdreamingxo 3 года назад +173

    “For the ones like us oppressed by the figures of beauty”

  • @vic7623
    @vic7623 8 лет назад +476

    *sigh* If only Lana's version of this was on Spotify.

    • @tashkash430
      @tashkash430 8 лет назад +6

      its on Soundcloud tho

    • @vic7623
      @vic7623 8 лет назад +5

      tash palvin Thanks so much! :D

    • @Kai-lv6lu
      @Kai-lv6lu 8 лет назад +6

      oh my God same, why do you do this Spotify WHYY

    • @josephbalon9968
      @josephbalon9968 7 лет назад

      Vic I feel you

    • @Alleyway_Jack
      @Alleyway_Jack 6 лет назад

      Yes! I was looking for it on Spotify too 😞

  • @AyyRamiK
    @AyyRamiK 9 лет назад +1227

    When she sang this last night in Charlotte I cried... She sounded like an angel.

    • @kmw3355
      @kmw3355 9 лет назад +14

      I was there too! She sounded perfect

    • @nickkthepolice
      @nickkthepolice 9 лет назад +12

      Dude i was there too! Damn, small world. This was truly amazing

    • @carabrooke8754
      @carabrooke8754 9 лет назад +8

      I was there! it was perfect!!!!

    • @ZimbabWiiProductions
      @ZimbabWiiProductions 9 лет назад +8

      Rami Kuseybi I wanted to cry at that concert :') she was ethereal

    • @Gaymer78
      @Gaymer78 9 лет назад +3

      Rami Kuseybi i was there too!!!!!!!!!! omfg it was amazing

  • @frog_prince3505
    @frog_prince3505 3 года назад +625

    One thing I love about Lana was she's comfortable covering a man song even though some lyrics are obviously for male singer, she never changes a thing to fit the lyrics to her gender.

    • @seanbryant-smith5662
      @seanbryant-smith5662 2 года назад +18

      Frog Prince. I'm with you here. Not surprisingly Lana has a sixth sense in how she operates. Try finding Stevie Nicks singing crashing into you. Explicit male song yet she did it anyway. Happy days!

    • @frog_prince3505
      @frog_prince3505 2 года назад +3

      @@seanbryant-smith5662 thank you for mentioning that song, I just listened to it and I love it at first listen. Thank you

    • @seanbryant-smith5662
      @seanbryant-smith5662 2 года назад +5

      @@frog_prince3505 Great stuff ! U took the time & found something new. Don't stop exploring. It's addictive for me since I started taking the time . Good times roll.

    • @shadesofcool6510
      @shadesofcool6510 2 года назад +1

      You mean 'sex'

  • @vanessasanha528
    @vanessasanha528 3 года назад +306

    I’m so glad I listened to Lana Del Rey constantly at 15

  • @sunshineyrainbows13
    @sunshineyrainbows13 8 лет назад +1662

    This is so beautiful, this, Pawn Shop Blues, Blue Velvet, the original version of Yayo, Black Beauty and Old Money will always be my favorites - they haunt me, and they define an era of my life that was memorable, to say the least. Oh, and the entire May Jailer album.

    • @buoyana6534
      @buoyana6534 8 лет назад +17

      I love how every May Jailer song has the same notes and style but different lyrics, it's exactly what I needed.

    • @yourgirlriver111
      @yourgirlriver111 7 лет назад +7

      When you say the original Yayo, do you mean the A.K.A Lizzy grant version or may jailers?

    • @ik6360
      @ik6360 7 лет назад

      What do you mean by original version

    • @HaidukeNT
      @HaidukeNT 7 лет назад +32

      *That moment when someone doesn't mention Leonard Cohen as the original songwriter and singer*

    • @sunshineyrainbows13
      @sunshineyrainbows13 7 лет назад +9

      Adolphe Meuporg Oh I know he's the original! And he's amazing, of course. c: I was just saying I appreciate Lana's version too.

  • @quixoticaenigma
    @quixoticaenigma 7 лет назад +1704

    This song, a cigarette and a cup of coffee.

    • @withlovefalseortrue9839
      @withlovefalseortrue9839 5 лет назад +4

      Yes

    • @cuauhtemocmorisco3493
      @cuauhtemocmorisco3493 4 года назад +27

      Whenever I feel down I find myself at the local park with a can of beers, a pack of ciggaretes, and music that reminds me of how my childhood and teen life was. I'm not addicted to drugs but sometimes you just gotta learn to let go of the things that are holding you down.

    • @justadolphin8932
      @justadolphin8932 4 года назад +7

      and shortness of breath

    • @andro99991
      @andro99991 4 года назад +13

      This song, a cigar and a glass of malt.

    • @buriedyoux7393
      @buriedyoux7393 4 года назад +2

      Beer and smokes.

  • @Fierra2000
    @Fierra2000 2 года назад +110

    I think Lana is the only artist I listen to who can’t make a bad song. Like I can listen to anything she sings cause her voice is so soothing and calms me and I love her lyrics and the spin she puts on covers.

    • @r.e.m2251
      @r.e.m2251 Год назад +3

      Right! Like she can fart on a microphone and I’ll still listen 2 it.

    • @pranjal6593
      @pranjal6593 9 месяцев назад +2

      It's originally written and sung by cohen...

    • @aliceerell1075
      @aliceerell1075 9 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@pranjal6593read the end of the comment again, they know its a cover

    • @r3dr3drose
      @r3dr3drose Месяц назад

      @@pranjal6593 Ok illiterate

  • @Lala-wh1cl
    @Lala-wh1cl 5 лет назад +92

    “I need you, I don’t need you” I don’t know why I love this part so much. She’s so talented 😭

  • @lwalker1998
    @lwalker1998 9 лет назад +209

    This is my favorite cover in the entire world

    • @andrewmatteson414
      @andrewmatteson414 9 лет назад +15

      ITS A COVER! I thought she wrote it omg

    • @MrJoris0123
      @MrJoris0123 9 лет назад +5

      It is indeed ! I love it too , waaw

    • @381P
      @381P 7 лет назад

      fu Cake you should hear goodbye kiss it's covered by her

  • @mzsmith7342
    @mzsmith7342 7 лет назад +1390

    For three years I have avoided this song for unknown reasons and this is the first time I am listening to it. Why have I chosen to deprive myself of such beauty for so long?

    • @beatriznovaes2262
      @beatriznovaes2262 7 лет назад +40

      Omg, same! I did cause I always cried when hearing this. But I should've know that the problem wasn't the song, but myself lol So beautiful! God.

    • @oliveranderson7264
      @oliveranderson7264 6 лет назад +6

      So, so relatable .

    • @audreycabrera4562
      @audreycabrera4562 6 лет назад +7

      Omg same I didnt hear it till now

    • @felixyavala2416
      @felixyavala2416 6 лет назад +1

      Mackenzie Smith yessss

    • @GAVINWEST-ly8sl
      @GAVINWEST-ly8sl 5 лет назад +1

      I did the same thing😂

  • @blake1272
    @blake1272 11 месяцев назад +10

    insane how lanas sound has changed so much over the years yet stayed so the same

  • @123FuzzyDuck
    @123FuzzyDuck 4 года назад +1805

    who's here during coronavirus? everyone stay safe

  • @brianburtis7262
    @brianburtis7262 7 лет назад +401

    So Amazing. She said Leonard Cohen was one of the only people that spoke her language! RIP L. C.

    • @vtecpreludevtec
      @vtecpreludevtec 7 лет назад +3

      Brian Burtis hi from NZ 17 11 16,my name s leonard rip LEONARD.

    • @stormystormiest
      @stormystormiest 5 лет назад +1

      Immortal 1 so much beauty, Leonard Cohen poetry, Lana her voice.

  • @VanyDelGrant
    @VanyDelGrant 8 лет назад +357

    "And clenching your fist for the ones like us who are oppressed by the figures of beauty" I love this part!

    • @danieldrainville5012
      @danieldrainville5012 8 лет назад +28

      +Vany Murphyne Thank Leonard Cohen.

    • @Vera-wg7np
      @Vera-wg7np 8 лет назад

      +Vany Murphyne Me too

    • @annagodia
      @annagodia 8 лет назад +11

      +Vany Murphyne we are ugly but we have the music!

  • @missdaytonaxx
    @missdaytonaxx Год назад +28

    Her beauty is unreal.

    • @planet0fbeauty
      @planet0fbeauty Год назад +1

      ​@HSHSBHSSHSHHSHSHHSHS Who TF doesn't?

  • @cloeg.6531
    @cloeg.6531 3 года назад +46

    the fact that she made this cover is so cool.. and she sang it so purely :3 Imagine the two of them singing together, how beautiful would it have been...

  • @lucapelo8303
    @lucapelo8303 8 лет назад +825

    Lana Del Rey is undoubtedly the most important musician in the mainstream music scene right now. She is teaching the masses to appreciate true music. And for that I have infinite respect for her.

    • @robertabizarro4465
      @robertabizarro4465 8 лет назад +1

      yeah

    • @HSLPedro
      @HSLPedro 8 лет назад +2

      +Luca Pelo the only mainstream voice I really love , and I listen to megadeth , metallica and that kind of stuff , that dont have nothing to do with lana , but she is trully awesome

    • @ivanmorale444
      @ivanmorale444 8 лет назад

      Pedro Stock

    • @ivanmorale444
      @ivanmorale444 8 лет назад +2

      Pedro Stock

    • @BH-wh4yz
      @BH-wh4yz 6 лет назад +3

      She'd be even more respectable if she credited the person this song actually belongs to instead of letting most of her followers believe that it's hers. But it's whatever.

  • @geraldgreyvenstein7387
    @geraldgreyvenstein7387 8 лет назад +2157

    I want this song to play at my funeral

    • @breelee700
      @breelee700 8 лет назад +2

      same

    • @Bcast1997
      @Bcast1997 7 лет назад +95

      I too want a song about janis joplin giving Leonard Cohen head in the chelsea hotel to be played at my funeral

    • @slimturnpike
      @slimturnpike 7 лет назад

      +Maynor Castillo fo shizz

    • @relaxolotl788
      @relaxolotl788 7 лет назад

      ikr

    • @Bunnylikerabbit
      @Bunnylikerabbit 7 лет назад

      This is a happy song...

  • @akshaykundu9999
    @akshaykundu9999 5 лет назад +83

    I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
    You were talking so brave and so sweet
    Giving me head on the unmade bed
    While the limousines wait in the street
    Those were the reasons and that was New York
    We were running for the money and the flesh
    And that was called love for the workers in song
    Probably still is for those of them left
    Ah, but you got away, didn't you baby
    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 jiving 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
    And clenching your fist for the ones like us
    Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty
    You fixed yourself, you said, "Well never mind,
    We are ugly but we have the music."
    Ah, but you got away, didn't you baby
    You just turned your back on the crowd
    And 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
    I don't mean to suggest that I love 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 even think of you that often

  • @jamesclark6949
    @jamesclark6949 2 года назад +54

    This song is the pure definition of melancholy

    • @Mrakra.j80
      @Mrakra.j80 Год назад

      could you tell me which album it belongs to or if it's a single song Thank you

    • @inesmell31
      @inesmell31 Год назад

      @@Mrakra.j80 it's a cover and it's single

    • @Mrakra.j80
      @Mrakra.j80 Год назад

      @@inesmell31 - OK

  • @boreddan
    @boreddan 7 лет назад +2363

    I keep thinking that she's holding beer

  • @sean480
    @sean480 8 лет назад +2455

    "I remember you well in the Tipton Hotel"

    • @kitashoe9784
      @kitashoe9784 7 лет назад +9

      lmaooo 😂😂

    • @stormdrooper8732
      @stormdrooper8732 7 лет назад +75

      Said every sweet life of Zack and Cody fan 😂😂

    • @hospitalcakewalk
      @hospitalcakewalk 7 лет назад +30

      Lol, the Chelsea is well known as the murder hotel. Tons of serial killers lived there and people have died mysteriously there. It's so bad the hotel has had to change it's name multiple times XD Funny!!

    • @KazimJafar
      @KazimJafar 7 лет назад +90

      No singing in my lobby!

    • @sean480
      @sean480 7 лет назад +5

      +Kazim Jafar OMFG IM CRYING 😂😂😂

  • @squarerootofsav
    @squarerootofsav 4 года назад +18

    just saw this live at the hollywood bowl last night and i’m still not over it, it was so beautiful live.i love u lana!

  • @lesterberame7715
    @lesterberame7715 4 года назад +15

    Lana's way of delivering her emotion and disclosing her heart to the public using music is what truly makes her a great story teller.

  • @tezwill3338
    @tezwill3338 8 лет назад +502

    I still can't believe this is a cover! Lana owned it like it was her very own story.

  • @andrew01016
    @andrew01016 7 лет назад +634

    Can we just have an album by Lana with a guitar...
    RIP

    • @EmBennet99
      @EmBennet99 7 лет назад +35

      Sirens under her "May Jailer" pseudonym

    • @sufjanstevenstethered5937
      @sufjanstevenstethered5937 7 лет назад +18

      agreed,, check out her album called sirens. and also her ep called young like me

    • @brennagustitus2091
      @brennagustitus2091 7 лет назад +2

      Andrew Traynor Sirens

    • @sulimanmohammed.9159
      @sulimanmohammed.9159 5 лет назад +20

      After year, you got what you wished.

    • @merlinaUVT
      @merlinaUVT 4 года назад +2

      Suliman Mohammed. I came just to say this exact thing. We are fully blessed

  • @emdiuenlaia
    @emdiuenlaia 2 месяца назад +7

    this song not being on spotify is my villain origin story

  • @jeffamunoz
    @jeffamunoz 3 месяца назад +3

    It doesn't feel real that this came out 10 years ago, I love you Lana.

  • @Yara-ht5oy
    @Yara-ht5oy 7 лет назад +56

    Underrated. She is full of such beauty and essence, in her personality, appearance and music.

  • @shawnamurphy8058
    @shawnamurphy8058 8 лет назад +922

    Wow she really is like a modern day, female, version of Johnny Cash.
    Her dark but glamorous soul, her lyrical depths, and the hard life behind it.

    • @ZarinaaMalik
      @ZarinaaMalik 8 лет назад +10

      it's not her song

    • @shawnamurphy8058
      @shawnamurphy8058 8 лет назад +6

      Zarina Yakubjanova Oh I figured. I've heard the song before. But some of her others I meant.

    • @generic_ornament
      @generic_ornament 8 лет назад +15

      This is Leonard Cohen originally. :) Anyone who likes this style should check out his other stuff.

    • @karlacruz7098
      @karlacruz7098 8 лет назад +25

      She does remind me of Johnny Cash. I love the sadness in her voice.

    • @samanthaestrella3058
      @samanthaestrella3058 8 лет назад

      Agreed.

  • @user-mn7rw3cg9t
    @user-mn7rw3cg9t 9 месяцев назад +3

    I feel so much emotion in the way lana sings this. It’s like being entranced.

  • @enrriquechinchilla936
    @enrriquechinchilla936 3 года назад +347

    It’s 2069 and you’re binge watching Lana del rey’s videos after her passing. You realized how good life was for you and feel thankful you were alive at the same time as her. Life is good.

    • @adamwojkowski4936
      @adamwojkowski4936 3 года назад +100

      No no I refuse her death 💖

    • @bluewescott4631
      @bluewescott4631 3 года назад +75

      if anyone is immortal it's her

    • @patrickcrowley4682
      @patrickcrowley4682 3 года назад +91

      I do NOT claim the negative energy from this comment. How DARE you bring the idea of death and Lana into the same sentence!?!? Lana FOREVER!!!

    • @ladygaga5728
      @ladygaga5728 3 года назад +12

      so sad that 4/20 2069 is her death day :(

    • @Eduardoo2001
      @Eduardoo2001 3 года назад +16

      no cause god is inmortal

  • @aleqz680
    @aleqz680 7 лет назад +818

    This is the best cover ever. She got a golden soul that you can hear from her voice! I always cry when she sings 'We are ugly but we have the music'

    • @kiraandergrant1997
      @kiraandergrant1997 7 лет назад +18

      Check out Janis Joplin. This song is about her. And I'd say the title of greatest cover imo belongs to her "Ball and Chain", version posted on youtube by RockWithBlues if I remember correctly

    • @MmmKayHuuNay
      @MmmKayHuuNay 7 лет назад +1

      Black Beauty that part always makes me laugh

    • @aleqz680
      @aleqz680 5 лет назад +1

      Kira Andergrant I didn't know it was about Janis... Thank you so much!

    • @samanthamay6714
      @samanthamay6714 3 года назад

      Rufus Wainwright did a beautiful live cover of this too, he captures the spirit of it as well. Also gorgeous, Antony and The Johnsons cover of If It Be Your Will (also Leonard Cohen, it was a tribute show some years back). Antony's voice is.... otherworldly.

    • @scottcharney1091
      @scottcharney1091 3 года назад +1

      @@aleqz680 Yeah, Cohen wished that he hadn't told the world that it was about an encounter with Joplin, but it does of course make the song even more interesting, when you think about it.

  • @3tienne10p4
    @3tienne10p4 8 лет назад +3795

    I thought the microphone was a beer...

  • @wanda13maximoff
    @wanda13maximoff 5 лет назад +33

    I love this cover. "You told me again you preferred handsome men But for me you would make an exception"- Whether she's singing about a man or a woman, somebody is moving up or down the Kinsey Scale.

    • @ludw1111g
      @ludw1111g 7 месяцев назад +2

      its not her song, its leonard cohen‘s. But yes, i love that line too!

  • @massimovinogradov2146
    @massimovinogradov2146 Год назад +8

    Hardly had anyone but Lana reached the emotion of the genious L. Cohen's song. Still touches after almost a decade

  • @KKBTSIMAGINES
    @KKBTSIMAGINES 7 лет назад +256

    She should just make an acoustic album, songs like this. Don't get me wrong, I love all her other songs. But something about her, just her raw voice and the guitar... It's just something magical.

    • @waifangel1117
      @waifangel1117 2 года назад +34

      her last two albums!

    • @yamanisalemeluna4836
      @yamanisalemeluna4836 Год назад +3

      Agree

    • @jenniferg452
      @jenniferg452 Год назад +3

      A lot of her early lizzy grant eps have that style of music. I have a playlist with those songs on it along with my other favorite unreleased songs of hers if u wanna check it out :) under my channel “Jennifer G” playlist named “Best Unreleased Lana”

  • @rainabaileyyy
    @rainabaileyyy 7 лет назад +93

    Leonard was a master poet, and Lana knew that. He was making music till he passed, and had a long life. May he rest in peace.

    • @oxyjenn23
      @oxyjenn23 6 лет назад

      This song was written by Leonard Cohen, and I blush to tell you the real story of it. It involves Janis Joplin and elevators and broken promises. I want to say Lana pulled it off

  • @animaten
    @animaten 3 года назад +326

    As a music lover and someone who sings a lot (not good tho), I always listen to a lot of music but when I start playing Lana there's no way i will change it to something.
    I consider Lana as a music genre.

    • @toughtitties7426
      @toughtitties7426 3 года назад +15

      True , her music is a whole genre.
      People can imitate the style but can never come close to it !

    • @katianna7306
      @katianna7306 3 года назад +10

      True she is so unique

    • @seanbryant-smith5662
      @seanbryant-smith5662 3 года назад +5

      Black Coffee. I listen to huge amounts of music. See Lana as unique. Captivating and stand out from mainstream. Love your take on Lana. Succinct !! Genre of her own. Yep very cool.

  • @DistortedFaiths
    @DistortedFaiths Год назад +9

    Lana Del Rey is one of few pop artists today who can get away with singing a Leonard Cohen song, and she does so wonderfully. This song was obvioisly written about a man's love, or infatuation, of a woman. Yet she pulls it off great.

  • @RobertoLeao-1-1
    @RobertoLeao-1-1 7 лет назад +538

    Written on the back of a napkin, Chelsea Hotel No. 2 is Cohen's description of a sexual encounter with Janis Joplin.
    "I used to bump into her in the elevator, about three in the morning," he once told an audience in Paris. "She wasn't looking for me. I think she was looking for Kris Kristofferson, somebody taller than me. I was looking for Brigitte Bardot. Anyway, we fell into each other's arms, through some process of elimination."
    His depiction of their tryst is unflattering ("You told me again, you preferred handsome men / But for me you would make an exception"), but that makes it perfect fodder for Lana Del Rey, whose languid vocals drawl over the song's seedier details.
    (From the BBC)

    • @mallikajoshi98
      @mallikajoshi98 4 года назад +27

      I do not like the part where the song is called 'fodder' due to its 'seedy' details. I know it sounds silly, but I have been following Lana for a long time and I feel like she would cover this song not because of the seedy sexy details. The crux of the poetry is love and sex and emotions and losing contact. And not to mention, the poetry is gorgeous. It is so well written! There are a million 'seedy' (GOD I HATE THE WORD, its like slyly suggesting the blowjob described in the first para). In short, I think she appreciates the poetry for its nonchalance towards the romance, its details about the individuals and their preferences, lost love (which is a very common theme in Lana's own music), and several other beautiful details in the song. I think BBC is reductive, that's all.

    • @Anastasia1993116
      @Anastasia1993116 4 года назад +17

      He actually sadi he deeply regretted having been so indiscreet and graphic . He said he never liked the kiss and tell approach and to name drop women he had been intimate with . He said he was deeply sorry and apologized to her memory for that . I respected him for that . Although the lyrics are perfect that part kinda made me cringe and I am glad he thought the same .

    • @kimmerepic2006
      @kimmerepic2006 3 года назад

      perfect fodder. f*** of this was amazing an freaking perfect. i dont cry for anything. this made me weep like a child.

  • @TheJazz3698
    @TheJazz3698 9 лет назад +65

    "I never once heard you say I need you...I don't need you." 😢 I can relate too much.

  • @nathrouxinol
    @nathrouxinol 3 года назад +217

    Any nostalgic souls listening in 2020?

    • @ellacbillon
      @ellacbillon 3 года назад +2

      Present.

    • @thisisbelladonna
      @thisisbelladonna 3 года назад +1

      btch I'm here

    • @casscitymusic
      @casscitymusic 3 года назад

      Just a few days left..then our Queen will own 2021 💜💕💕💕

    • @be.549
      @be.549 3 года назад

      Wait til you get old enough that something 7 years old isn't nostalgic because it feels like last year 🙃

    • @danyel7089
      @danyel7089 3 года назад +4

      in 2021 too :')

  • @josephrios7220
    @josephrios7220 3 года назад +43

    Damn it's been 6 years since the last time I've heard this song, I'm honestly glad I stumbled across this once again. thanks lana for the great music

  • @emliily
    @emliily 8 лет назад +29

    Lana simply has a majestic voice, she doesn't even need instrumental background. This is true talent. It is rare and strange to hear or see. Powerful.

  • @jmilesweb97
    @jmilesweb97 8 лет назад +189

    hauntingly beautiful.. Leonard would be proud. it's refreshing to hear a female pop vocalist who isn't trying to impress with vocal range or vocal control -- we unwaveringly believe her when she sings this, and that's what makes it such an amazing performance

    • @binboda
      @binboda 8 лет назад +4

      +jmilesweb97 I'm honestly so happy that she exists

  • @sayonshintha9398
    @sayonshintha9398 7 месяцев назад +3

    ⏯️ Everytime when I heard the song, I do miss Sid and Nancy 🪦 Dear, Father & mother of the punk 🕊️ R.I.P. 🥀♥️

  • @danbridges4755
    @danbridges4755 2 месяца назад +4

    Why was this masterpiece forgotten? It's a song by Lou Reed about rock legend Janis Joplin. Lana did it justice.

    • @jessbelen
      @jessbelen 2 месяца назад +2

      Leonard Cohen no Lou Reed

    • @danbridges4755
      @danbridges4755 2 месяца назад

      @@jessbelen oh yeah you're right

  • @SharpWalkers
    @SharpWalkers 10 лет назад +139

    I love Leonard Cohen. I really like Lana Del Rey.
    I'm very happy here.

  • @VinylScratchie
    @VinylScratchie 10 лет назад +90

    The last bit of this song makes me cry,
    "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 even think of you that often."

    • @VinylScratchie
      @VinylScratchie 9 лет назад

      It has so much more meaning now that my true love had other plans.

    • @juanestebanloaiza1356
      @juanestebanloaiza1356 9 лет назад

      Sam Ampora Let's cry together ToT buaaa buaaa buaaa *snif

    • @VinylScratchie
      @VinylScratchie 9 лет назад +3

      I haven't stopped crying since he broke up with me. He got away and he is just a fallen robin to me now. I love him still. I really do.

    • @juanestebanloaiza1356
      @juanestebanloaiza1356 9 лет назад +4

      Oh darling don't worry, every heartbreak is lonely since his or her couple got away but you have to understand that the world doesn't ends. You're beautiful and I guess that you're smart. Don't waste time. Smile. Eat a coockie. And get over it ;)

    • @iamjaguarpaw.thisismyfores4516
      @iamjaguarpaw.thisismyfores4516 9 лет назад +2

      I am sorry for your pain....
      Who loves you less than you need
      Is not one whom you need
      'Though it may not seem so right now.

  • @fisherj06
    @fisherj06 2 года назад +57

    I’m never going to outgrow her poetry it’s true art to me and I love it.

    • @fisherj06
      @fisherj06 2 года назад +15

      I know this is a cover I’m just talking about her

  •  2 месяца назад +1

    This is the first time I see a 25 million listens and the "watched minutes" graph so stable, from start to finish. People can't drop listening to this song.

  • @IJuanDs
    @IJuanDs 7 лет назад +125

    I am so sad Leonard died... May he rest in peace and I give him thanks for this song. When I saw her live, this song made me loose it.

  • @davidadams2395
    @davidadams2395 8 лет назад +256

    I was prepared to hate this, but Lana sang Cohen's song admirably.

    • @bluejay3009
      @bluejay3009 8 лет назад +4

      Beauty ofc

    • @christinash2235
      @christinash2235 5 лет назад +1

      This is hands down the best cover I've ever heard outside of Thurston Moore doing the Carpenters Superstar.

    • @bubbles-1020
      @bubbles-1020 5 лет назад

      I know exactly what you mean! I too am pleasantly surprised.

  • @patrickcrowley4682
    @patrickcrowley4682 3 года назад +7

    One of her more iconic looks. Just flawless.

  • @tayllorsatarah
    @tayllorsatarah 9 дней назад +3

    I would give anything for Lana’s famous low register vocals juxtaposed which her iconic high register vocals. I hate that she was bullied out of doing what made her such a legend.

  • @salthart57
    @salthart57 9 лет назад +21

    One of the best covers I ever heard of Leonard Cohen's opus. Lana sings it with a level of soul that has to be beyond her years, and yet there's no way you can fake that. Absolutely spot on! I'm sure Leonard smiled when he heard this rendition.

  • @OfficialPrettyLittleLiars
    @OfficialPrettyLittleLiars 7 лет назад +3179

    RIP Leonard Cohen :(

    • @fulgenzio89
      @fulgenzio89 7 лет назад +13

      ruclips.net/video/vtJ90Uvdxh8/видео.html

    • @nailaamin9681
      @nailaamin9681 7 лет назад +148

      you've got to be kidding me now wtf

    • @360flipmaster
      @360flipmaster 7 лет назад +87

      He did the original version of this. RIP :(

    • @arielamejeiras8677
      @arielamejeiras8677 7 лет назад +76

      You He wrote the bloody thing! Plus many other amazing songs.

    • @nailaamin9681
      @nailaamin9681 7 лет назад +48

      ohmygod you're right yes! thank you for correcting me so nicely, i should've been gentler about it.

  • @MarkPetrowsky
    @MarkPetrowsky 3 года назад +25

    this is the most incredible cover i have ever heard

  • @ophasugian
    @ophasugian 3 года назад +72

    RIP Janis Joplin ; L.Cohen dedicated this song for her

  • @carrieldr8834
    @carrieldr8834 8 лет назад +47

    This went so deep into my soul my heart is actually aching... I adore you Lana

  • @zontzooit2415
    @zontzooit2415 Год назад +6

    I love how her music now sounds like this

    • @anthonyx8216
      @anthonyx8216 Год назад

      No it doesn't her new music's awful

    • @zontzooit2415
      @zontzooit2415 Год назад +7

      @@anthonyx8216 this is just a phase you’ll grow out of it when you mature and grow up don’t worry…. (Unless you never mature)

    • @zontzooit2415
      @zontzooit2415 Год назад +5

      @@anthonyx8216 no but tbh idk how to respond to you about this other than you need to expand your taste and mature up a little in order to enjoy her new music. It didn’t click for me at first but I for sure never thought it was awful. And yeah it does sound like this. It’s softer and slower and calmer in comparison to the collage of sounds she made back then. But I’m just saying she got nominated grow AOTY and a lot of praise from critics that once hated her for a reason on Nfr + her newer albums especially her recent one as well. Grow up and maybe you’ll get it

  • @neoshajohnson1033
    @neoshajohnson1033 Год назад +1

    This is why Juliard has a class dedicated to her. She has her own Lana Del Ray class for her sound and how she changed the industry. ❤

  • @animalfinatic9366
    @animalfinatic9366 7 лет назад +278

    It breaks my heart to know Lana has lost a love of hers. And its strange because what she feels for her role models, that she thinks those few are the only ones who can speak to her and understand her, is what exactly I feel towards Lana. I never really knew him, but any role model of Lana's is a friend of mine, because those who she looked up to is what shaped her, and I absolutely love her. Rest In Peace Leonard Cohen. 11.11.2016. Thank you for inspiring so many. Lana loves you and so do others beyond measure.

    • @aabelmendoza
      @aabelmendoza 7 лет назад +3

      Animal finatic this is beautiful.

    • @kaseylynn2133
      @kaseylynn2133 7 лет назад +6

      Animal finatic I feel the exact same way. I can't stop listening to this, knowing that she found a soul like hers and I have a found a soul like mine within her.

    • @renovatio9373
      @renovatio9373 7 лет назад

      Kasey Lynn

    • @---gi4sr
      @---gi4sr 7 лет назад +7

      don't make me cry now

    • @s_c_p_v
      @s_c_p_v 5 лет назад +6

      Leonard wrote this about Janis Joplin, who’s also a role model for Lana. That’s why she picked this song I guess. Because it’s related to two of her idols.

  • @trashtvinternational
    @trashtvinternational 7 лет назад +375

    WHY THE HELLLLL ISNT THIS ON ITUNES???????,,,,???,,,,!!!!!!???????!!???,,??!?!!!!????????!!!!???????????????????!!!!!!!

    • @nestorguerra2946
      @nestorguerra2946 3 года назад +6

      bc this is just a cover but the original version is also amazing darling

    • @kayla9874
      @kayla9874 3 года назад +5

      I just had to come back here cause it’s STILL not on iTunes

  • @adrians7245
    @adrians7245 2 года назад +1

    Leonard's brutal end to this song is a master class of writing

  • @lojupitermoon
    @lojupitermoon 4 года назад +612

    I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
    You were talking so brave and so sweet
    Giving me head on the unmade bed
    While the limousines wait in the street
    But those were the reasons and that was New York
    We were running for the money and the flesh
    And that was called love for the workers in zone
    Probably still is for those of them left
    Ah, but you got away, didn't you, baby?
    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 jiving 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
    And clenching your fist for the ones like us
    Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty
    You fixed yourself
    You said, "Well, never mind
    We are ugly, but we have the music"
    Oh, but you got away, didn't you, baby?
    You just turned your back on the crowd
    And you got away, I never once heard you say
    I need you, I don't need you
    I need you, I don't need ya
    And all of that jiving 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 even think of you that often

  • @Jas12318
    @Jas12318 7 лет назад +345

    okay who's cutting onions

  • @apg3441
    @apg3441 8 лет назад +16

    I remember the first time I went to her concert, I was lucky enough to hear her sing this live. It brought tears to my eyes; this is such a beautiful song.

  • @delaneydelrey
    @delaneydelrey 4 года назад +209

    Just got back here after watching Lana sang along with Adam Cohen at Jones Beach on IG

  • @pandoraxgrant
    @pandoraxgrant 4 месяца назад +2

    almost 11 yrs later and her beauty and voice are timeless

  • @samc9024
    @samc9024 9 лет назад +19

    when she sang this at the concert I cried not like I didn't cry the whole time

  • @february6
    @february6 8 лет назад +445

    Her voice. Damn.

  • @alicestocklistockli8394
    @alicestocklistockli8394 4 года назад +16

    This is the most romantic thing I’ve ever heard

  • @kaya330
    @kaya330 Год назад +2

    the poetic brilliance of leonard cohen and lana’s beautiful voice. wow

  • @ep3917
    @ep3917 6 лет назад +62

    I was in a very dark place of my life when I started listening to Lana. This song in particular brings me soooo much good and comfortable memories. Thank you Lana. Just Thank you.