Visiting the Park wih Leonard Cohen

Tower of Song

For your listening pleasure: Tower of Song

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 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.

I see you standing on the other side.

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

I loved you, I loved you 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, we'll never have to lose it again.

So 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 am gone.

I'll be speaking to you sweetly from my window in the tower of song.

My friends are gone and my hair is grey.

I ache in 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 in the tower of song.

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