Chelsea Girls

Nico

Here's Room 506
It's enough to make you sick
Bridget's all wrapped up in foil
You wonder if she can uncoil

Here they come now
See them run now
Here they come now
Chelsea Girls

Here's Room 115
Filled with S & M queens
Magic marker row
You wonder just high they go

Here they come now
See them run now
Here they come now
Chelsea Girls

Here's Pope dear Ondine
Rona's treated him so mean
She wants another scene
She wants to be a human being.

Here they come now
See them run now
Here they come now
Chelsea Girls

Pepper she's having fun
She thinks she's some man's son
Her perfect loves don't last
Her future died in someone's past

Here they come now
See them run now
Here they come now
Chelsea girls

Dear Ingrid's found her lick
She's turned another trick
Her treats and times revolve
She's got problems to be solved

Here they come now
See them run now
Here they come now
Chelsea Girls

Poor Mary, she's uptight
She can't turn out her light
She rolled Susan in a ball
And now she can't see her at all

Here they come now
See them run now
Here they come now
Chelsea Girls

Dropout, she's in a fix,
Amphetamine has made her sick
White powder in the air
She's got no bones and can't be scared

Here they come now
See them run now
Here they come now
Chelsea Girls

Here comes Johnny Bore,
He collapsed on the floor
They shot him up with milk
And when he died sold him for silk

Here they come now
See them run now
Here they come now
Chelsea Girls

Here they come now
See them run now
Here they come now
Chelsea girls


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    great song

    the hotel chelsea, which this song refers to, was a hotel in new york that everyone hip stayed at. there was leonard cohen, dylan, burroughs, joplin, tom wolfe, jefferson airplane, nico, and other artists, writers, and filmmakers. i'm not sure exactly who all the people in this song are but i'm sure some of them are people from andy warhol's movies. anyways, lotsa people did drugs and wrote music at the chelsea and that's what this song talks about.

    mrs-mojo-risinon October 27, 2004   Link

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