SONG: the emptiest hotel room
(Duke, based on Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne")

[G] he's standing in the doorway of the emptiest hotel room
[C] and he's looking down the hallway at the memory of her leaving
[G] and he wonders if he'll miss her and he wonders if he'll see her
[C] when he's shopping at the news stand near the park bench where he met her
[G] in july

and she knows that he's in love with her but fears the love is fleeting
and she wonders why he let her go she wonders why she's leaving
but she knew she couldn't love him in the emptiest hotel room
so she packed her bags and left the ring out on the bathroom counter
and she cried

   [Bm] and the bellman calls a taxi cab and [C] then adjusts his collar
   [G] then he looks out at the city, at the [Am] joy and at the squalor
   [G] and he sighs

she looks down at her raincoat wrapped around her gray pajamas
and she thinks of how he touched her in the emptiest hotel room
and she wonders what their children would have looked like in december
and she wonders why she fought with him she knows she won't remember
but she tries

   [Bm] and the taxi cab is leaving as [C] he watches from his window
   [G] and he shakes his head and whispers [Am] very softly "where will she go?"
   [G] and he cries

and he thinks about the good times and he thinks of how he loved her
and he thinks of all he taught her and the things that he learned from her
and he looks back to the mattress where her body's shape still lingers
and he sees her and he loves her in the emptiest hotel room
in his mind