Leonard Cohen - Tower Of Song

Tower Of Song

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 every day 
Oh 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 
Ah 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 judgement 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 




Now I bid you farewell, 

I don't know when I'll be back 
There 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 




Yeah 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 every day 
Oh in the Tower of Song