Tower of Song

Well, 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 comin' on

I'm just payin' 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 coughin' 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 a gift of a golden voice

And twenty-seven angels from the great beyond

They tied me to the stage right here in the tower of song

So you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll

I'm very sorry, baby, but that doesn't look like me at all

And I'm standin' by the window where the light is strong

They don't let women kill you, not here in the tower of song

Now you can say that I've grown bitter, but this you can be sure

The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor

And there's a mighty judgement comin', babe

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

And I loved you, baby, way back when

And all the bridges are burnin' that we mighta crossed

But I feel so close to everything we lost

And 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 movin' us tomorrow to the tower down the track

And you'll be hearin' from me, baby, long after I'm gone

I'll be speakin' to you sweetly from a window in the tower of song