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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 everyday

 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 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 have to lose it again

 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