Tom Jones - Tower Of Song

Leonard Cohen wrote "Tower of Song" in the early 1980s, but it was officially released on his album I'm Your Man in February 1988.

Tower Of Song


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 Home

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 yet
But I hear him coughing all night 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 twenty-seven angels from the Great Beyond
They tied me to this stage right here
In the Tower of Song

I see you standing on the other side
I don't know how the river got so wide
And I loved you baby, way back when
And all the bridges are burning that we might have crossed
I feel so close to everything that we lost
And We'll never
We'll never have to lose it again

Now I bid you farewell, don't know when I'll be back
They're moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
And you'll be hearing from me, baby, long after I'm gone
I'll be singing to you sweetly
From a window in the Tower, in the Tower of Song