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
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