Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen - Tower Of Song (tekst) lyrics
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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 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 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 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 this wide I loved you baby, way back when And all the bridges are burning that we might have crossed But I feel so damn close to everything that we lost We'll never, never have to lose it again So 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 darling, 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 Don't stop, don't leave me here alone, don't ever stop Sing me to bed and sing me through the morning, because I'm so grateful to you, because Tonight it's become clear to me Tonight the great mysteries have unraveled And I've penetrated to the very core of things And I have stumbled on the answer and I'm not the sort of chap that would keep this to himself Do you want to hear the answer? Are you truly hungry for the answer? Then you're just the people I wanna tell it to Because it's a rare thing to come upon this I'm going to let you in on it now The answer to the mysteries Do dum dum da do dum dum