Interpret:

Leonard Cohen

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More Best Of Leonard Cohen

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 William hasn´t  answered yet,
but I hear him coughing all right 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 twentyseven 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.
A´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 bitte,
but of this you may be sure:
The rich have got their channels in the
bedrooms of the poor,
and there´s a mighty judgement 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, i loved you 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 nover, we´ll 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, baby,
long after I´m gone.
I´ll be speaking to you sweetly formy my
window in the tower of song.


My friend 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.