| 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 Im crazy for love but Im not coming on
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| Im just paying my rent every day
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| Oh in the tower of song
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| I said to hank williams: how lonely does it get?
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| Hank williams hasnt answered yet
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| But I hear him coughing all night long
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| A hundred floors above me
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| In the tower of song
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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
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| In the tower of song
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| So you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll
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| Im very sorry, baby, doesnt look like me at all
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| Im standing by the window where the light is strong
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| Ah they dont let a woman kill you
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| Not in the tower of song
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| Now you can say that Ive 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 theres a mighty judgement coming, but I may be wrong
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| You see, you hear these funny voices
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| In the tower of song
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| I see you standing on the other side
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| I dont 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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| Well never have to lose it again
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| Now I bid you farewell, I dont know when Ill be back
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| There moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
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| But youll be hearing from me baby, long after Im gone
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| Ill be speaking to you sweetly
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| From a window in the tower of song
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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
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| And Im crazy for love but Im not coming on
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| Im just paying my rent every day
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| Oh in the tower of song |