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Tower of song

Song composer: Leonard Cohen

Lyrics author: Leonard Cohen

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	Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey

I ache in the places where I used to play

	C	G
And I'm	crazy for love but I'm not coming on

	D	C
I'm just	paying my rent every	day

	G
In the Tower of	Song

I said to Hank Williams: How lonely does it get?

Hank Williams hasn't answered yet.

	C	G
But I	hear him coughing all night long

	D	C
A hund	red floors above me

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In the Tower of	Song

I was born like this, I had no choice.

I was born with the gift of a golden voice.

	C	G
And twen	ty-seven angels from the Great beyond

	D	C
They	tied me to this table right here

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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

	C	G
I'm stand	ing by the window where the light is	strong

	D	C
They don't	let a woman kill you,	not

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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

	C
And there's a	mighty judgment coming

	G
But I may be wrong

	D	C
You see, you	hear these funny voices

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In the Tower of	Song

		Em	D
		I see you standing on the other	side

		Em	D
		I don't know how the river	got so wide

		C	G
	I	loved you, baby, way back when

		Em	D
		And all the bridges are burning that we	might have crossed

		Em	D
		But I feel so close to every	thing that we lost

		C	D
	We'll	never have to lose it again

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I	bid you farewell, I don't know when I'll be back

They're moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track

	C
But You'll be	hearing from me, baby

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Long after I'm	gone

	D	C
I'll be	speaking to you sweetly from a	window

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In the Tower	of Song

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