Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man movie - Tower Of Song lyrics

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Song by Leonard Cohen / U2<br /><br>

Well, my friends are gone and my hair is grey<br>

I ache in the places where I used to play<br>

And I'm crazy for love but I'm not comin' on.<br>

I'm just payin' my rent everyday in the Tower of Song.<br>

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I said to Hank Williams "How lonely does it get?"<br>

Hank Williams hasn't answered yet<br>

But I hear in the coffee all night long<br>

Oh, a hundred floors above me in the Tower of Song.<br>

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I was born like this, I had no choice<br>

I was born with the gift of a golden voice<br>

And twenty-seven angels from the Great Beyond,<br>

They tied me to this table right here in the Tower of Song.<br>

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So you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll<br>

I'm very sorry, baby, it doesn't look like me at all<br>

I'm standin' by the window where the light is strong<br>

Ah, they don't let a woman kill you, not in the Tower of Song.<br>

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Now, you can say that I've grown bitter but of this you may be sure:<br>

The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor<br>

And there's a mighty Judgement comin' but I may be wrong<br>

You see, I hear these funny voices in the Tower of Song.<br>

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I see you standin' on the other side<br>

I don't... How the river got so wide?<br>

I loved you, baby, way back when...<br>

And all the bridges are burnin' that we might've crossed<br>

But I feel so close to everything that we lost<br>

We'll never, we'll never have to lose it again.<br>

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Now, I did you farewell, I don't know when I'll be back<br>

They're movin' us tomorrow to the tower down the track<br>

But you'll be hearin' from me, baby, long after I'm gone<br>

I'll be speakin' to you sweetly from a window in the Tower of Song.<br>

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Yeah, my friends are gone and my hair is grey<br>

I ache in the places where I used to play<br>

And I'm crazy for love but I'm not comin' on.<br>

I'm just payin' my rent everyday in the Tower of Song.<br>

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