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 everyda y
In the Tower of Son g
I said to Hank Williams : How lonely does it get ?
Hank Williams hasn't answered yet.
But I he ar him coughing all night long
A hundr ed floors above me
In the Tower of Son g
I was born like this, I had no choice.
I was born with the gift of a golden voice.
And twen ty-seven angels from the Great beyond
They tie d 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 stand ing by the window where the light is stron g
They don't le t a woman kill you, n ot
In the Tower of Son g
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 mi ghty judgment coming
But I may be wrong
You see, you he ar these funny voices
In the Tower of Song
I see you standing on the other s ide
I don't know how the river g ot so wide
I lov ed you, baby, way back when
And all the bridges are burning that we might have crossed
But I feel so close to everythin g 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 he aring from me, baby
Long after I'm g one
I'll be sp eaking to you sweetly from a win dow
In the Tower o f Song