LEONARD COHEN - Tower Of Song lyrics

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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 coming on<br>I'm just paying my rent every day<br>Oh in the tower of song<br><br>I said to hank williams: how lonely does it get? <br>Hank williams hasn't answered yet<br>But I hear him coughing all night long<br>A hundred floors above me<br>In the tower of song<br><br>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<br>In the tower of song<br><br>So you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll<br>I'm very sorry, baby, doesn't look like me at all<br>I'm standing by the window where the light is strong<br>Ah they don't let a woman kill you<br>Not in the tower of song<br><br>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 coming, but I may be wrong<br>You see, you hear these funny voices<br>In the tower of song<br><br>I see you standing on the other side<br>I don't know how the river got so wide<br>I loved you baby, way back when<br>And all the bridges are burning that we might have crossed<br>But I feel so close to everything that we lost<br>We'll never have to lose it again<br><br>Now I bid you farewell, I don't know when I'll be back<br>There moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track<br>But you'll be hearing from me baby, long after I'm gone<br>I'll be speaking to you sweetly<br>From a window in the tower of song<br>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 coming on<br>I'm just paying my rent every day<br>Oh in the tower of song