Tower Of Song Lyrics

                             Leonard Cohen
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           Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey
           I ache in the places where I used to play
           And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on
           I'm just paying my rent everyday
           In the Tower of Song

           I said to Hank Williams: How lonely does it get?
           Hank Williams hasn't answered yet.
           But I hear him coughing all night long
           A hundred floors above me
           In the Tower of Song

           I was born like this, I had no choice.
           I was born with the gift of a golden voice.
           And twenty-seven angels from the Great beyond
           They tied me to this table right here
           In the Tower of Song

           So you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll ---
           I'm very sorry, baby, doesn't look like me at all
           I'm standing by the window where the light is strong
           They don't let a woman kill you, not
           In the Tower of Song

           Now you can say that I've grown bitter, but of this you may be sure:
           The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor
           And there's a mighty judgment coming
           But I may be wrong --- 
           You see, you hear these funny voices
           In the Tower of Song

           I see you standing on the other side
           I don't know how the river got so wide
           I loved you, baby, way back when
           And all the bridges are burning that we might have crossed
           But I feel so close to everything that we lost
           We'll never have to lose it again

           I bid you farewell, I don't know when I'll be back
           They're moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
           But You'll be hearing from me, baby
           Long after I'm gone
           I'll be speaking to you sweetly from a window
           In the Tower of Song