Tower Of Song Lyrics - Essential Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen

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 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 

Oh, 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 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, we'll never have to lose it again 

Now 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 

Yeah, my friends are gone and my hair is gray 

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