Verse 1
[G]
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] [G]
I'm just paying my rent everyday in the Tower of Song
Verse 2
[G]
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] [G]
A hundred floors above me in the Tower of Song
Verse 3
[G]
I was born like this, I had no choice, I was born with the gift of a golden voice
[C] [G]
And twenty-seven angels from the great beyond
[D] [C] [G]
They tied me to this table right here in the Tower of Song
Verse 4
[G]
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 standing by the window where the light is strong
[D] [C] [G]
They don't let a woman kill you, not in the Tower of Song
Verse 5
[G]
Now you can say that I've grown bitter, but of this you may be sure: the rich have got their channels
[C] [G]
In the bedrooms of the poor, and there's a mighty judgment coming, but I may be wrong
[D] [C] [G]
You see, you hear these funny voices in the Tower of Song
Bridge
[Em] [D] [Em] [D]
I see you standing on the other side, I don't know how the river got so wide
[C] [G]
I loved you, baby, way back when
[Em] [D] [Em] [D]
And all the bridges are burning that we might've crossed, but I feel so close to everything that we lost
[C] [D]
We'll never, we'll never have to lose it again
Verse 6
[G]
I bid you farewell, don't know when I'll be back, they're moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
[C] [G]
But you'll be hearing from me, baby, long after I'm gone
[D] [C] [G]
I'll be speaking to you sweetly from a window in the Tower of Song
Verse 7
[G]
Yeah, 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] [G]
I'm just paying my rent everyday in the Tower of Song
