Tower of Song

Leonard Cohen/Leonard Cohen: I'm your Man (1988)

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Well my	friends are gone and my hair is grey,

I ache in the places where I used to play,

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And I'm	crazy for love but I'm not coming	on.

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I'm just	paying my rent every	day - 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 judgement coming. But I may be wrong:

You see, you hear these funny voices - In the Tower of Song.

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	I see you standing on the	other side.

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	I don't know how the river	got so wide.

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I	loved you, baby, way back	when,

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	And all the bridges are burning that we	might have crossed.

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	But I feel so close to everything	that we lost,

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We'll	never have to lose it a	gain.

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.