Chelsea Hotel - Leonard Cohen

“Miss, are you waiting for someone?”, Janis smiles… no one has ever called her ‘miss’…

“I’m waiting for my friend Kris Kristofferson,” the girl replies…

“You’re lucky, miss, I am Kris Kristofferson,” Leonard says to her, smiling…
“I remembered you taller,” she laughs genuinely joyfully, Janis…

Legend has it that they don’t say anything more… they take the elevator and go up to her at 411.

A few years later, Cohen will dedicate this song to her with tones, for him, it is said unusually raw and cynical… as if he feared of seeming too romantic…

“You told me you preferred beautiful men but that for me you would make an exception”…

He, the greatest songwriter after or along with Dylan, she the greatest white Blues singer. She destroyed by anguish and frustration of not being understood and accepted. Of being ugly, awkward, with crooked legs and pimples. She feels good only on stage, when she repeats that she feels like making love to thousands of people… only to go home always alone.

A story of love and sex, as it happened in those years. Sudden and deep at the same time… two very different people who found each other… by God…

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