Movement 4: Chelsea Morning

from Hotel Chelsea Song Cycle, Pt. 1 by Joi Olympia

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Inspired by Joni Mitchell.
She stayed at the Chelsea Hotel in 1967

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butterscotch or honey
the sun rose either way
but even Chelsea wonder
couldn't make love stay

the sweetest bitter ending
was bound to show it's face
a spotlight on their weakness
they were too much the same

could two perfect souls
really make this wrong
shards of colored glass
made rainbows on the wall

a painter and a boudoir poet
couldn't seem to get along
it was a different kind of chorus
to that same gypsy song

summer at the Hotel Chelsea
was all that they had

a love entwined in poems
escaped so fast

it was a different kind of chorus
to that same gypsy song
a painter and a boudoir poet
couldn't seem to get along

it was a different kind of chorus
to that same old gypsy song

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from Hotel Chelsea Song Cycle, Pt. 1, released August 1, 2016

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Joi Olympia Brooklyn, New York

Joi Olympia writes and records all of her own music at her home-studio in Brooklyn. She plays every instrument on the tracks you hear (guitar, bass, violin, tambourine, drums, bongos, washboard, back-up vocals, and sometimes rice in a bowl). Currently, she is writing a cohesive song cycle based on the artist's who lived and worked at the Chelsea Hotel. ... more

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