Tower of Song

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

I said to Hank Williams, how lonely does it get?

Hank Williams hasn't answered me 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

Oh 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

And I'm standing by the window

Where the light is strong

But they don't let no one kill you now

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 bedroom of the poor

And there's a mighty judgment coming

But I might be wrong

You see and hear these funny voices

In the tower of song

And I can see you standing on the other side, I

I don't know how the river got so wide

I love you, baby

Way back when

And all of the bridges are burning

That we might have crossed

But I feel so close to everything we lost

Never, never

Have to lose it again

Now I bid you farewell, I

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

I'm just paying my rent every day in the tower of song

I'm just paying my rent every day in the tower of song