Chelsea Hotel '78 Lyrics - Real Animal - Alejandro Escovedo

I lived in the Chelsea once 

On 7th and 23rd 

We came to live inside the myth 

Of everything we heard 

The poets on their bar stools 

They just loved it when it rained 

They comb their hair in the mirror 

Grow addicted to the pain 

And it makes no sense 

And it makes perfect sense 

And it makes no sense 

And it makes perfect sense 

I saw Neon Leon 

Spider and the boys 

Just before the cops arrived 

And took off with the noise 

It was nothing special 

Just another bar 

The baptist Kansas City life 

Makes everyone a star 

It makes no sense (It makes perfect sense) 

And it makes perfect sense (And it makes no sense) 

And it makes no sense (And it makes perfect sense) 

And it makes perfect sense (And it makes no sense) 

Oh 

C'mon 

Nancy called up to her rooms 

Said c'mon and help us sit 

We went down 

And looked around 

The dealer let us in 

We thought he was hysterical 

But not the way he joked 

Don't know if did what he said he did 

Nobody really knows 

I stood out on the sidewalk 

When we busted through the door 

In a white tuxedo jacket 

(?) 

You know to show off that thing 

Nobody knows for sure 

We know they found us 

In our black underwear 

Dead on the bedroom floor 

It makes no sense (It makes perfect sense) 

And it makes perfect sense (And it makes no sense) 

And it makes no sense (And it makes perfect sense) 

And it makes perfect sense (And it makes no sense) 

I lived in the Chelsea once 

On 7th and 23rd 

We came to live inside the myth 

Of everything we'd heard 

The poets on their bar stools 

They just loved it when it rained 

They comb their hair in the mirror 

Grow addicted to the pain 

It makes no sense (It makes perfect sense) 

And it makes perfect sense (And it makes no sense) 

And it makes no sense (And it makes perfect sense) 

And it makes perfect sense (And it makes no sense) 

We all through down 

(And it makes perfect sense) 

We all through dark 

(And it makes no sense) 

So we all moved out 

(And it makes perfect sense) 

So we all moved on 

(And it makes no sense) 

And on and on