[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey
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I ache in the places where I used to play
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And I'm crazy for love, but I'm not coming on
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I'm just paying my rent every day in the Tower of Song
[Verse 2]
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I said to Hank Williams, "How lonely does it get?"
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Hank Williams hasn't me answered yet
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But I hear him coughing, all night long
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About a hundred floors above me in the Tower of Song
[Verse 3]
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I was born like this, I had no choice
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I was born with the gift of a golden voice
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And twenty-seven angels from the Great Beyond
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They tied me to this table right here in the Tower of Song
[Instrumental]
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[Verse 4]
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So you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll
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I'm very sorry, baby, it don't look like me at all
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I'm standing by the window, where the light is strong
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And they don't let a woman kill you, not in the Tower of Song
[Verse 5]
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Now you can say that I've grown bitter, but of this you may be sure
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The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor
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And there's a mighty judgement coming, but I may be wrong
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You see, you hear them funny voices in the Tower of Song
[Bridge]
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I see you standing on the other side
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I don't know how the river got so wide
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I loved you baby, way back when
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And all the bridges are burning that we might have crossed
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But I feel so close to everything that we lost
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We'll never, we'll never have to lose it again
[Verse 6]
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Now I bid you farewell, I don't know when I'll be back
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They're moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
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But you'll be hearing from me, baby, long after I'm gone
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I'll be speaking to you sweetly from my window in the Tower of Song
[Outro]
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Yeah, my friends are gone and my hair is grey
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I ache in the places where I used to play
C C G G
And I'm crazy for love, but I'm not coming on
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I'm just paying my rent every day in the Tower of Song