Tower Of Song
Key: GEnglish
Verse
GWell my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play
And I'm Ccrazy for love but I'm not coming on G
I'm just Dpaying my rent every Cday
In the Tower of GSong
Verse
I said to Hank Williams: How lonely does it get?
Hank Williams hasn't answered yet.
But I Chear him coughing all night long G
A hunDdred floors above me C
In the Tower of GSong
Verse
I was born like this, I had no choice.
I was born with the gift of a golden voice.
And twenCty-seven angels from the Great beyond G
They Dtied me to this table right here C
In the Tower of Song G
Verse
So you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll
I'm very sorry, baby, doesn't look like me at all
I'm stanCding by the window where the light is Gstrong
They don't Dlet a woman kill you, Cnot
In the Tower of GSong
Verse
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
And there's a Cmighty judgment coming
But I may be wrong G
You see, you Dhear these funny voices C
In the Tower of Song G
Bridge
EmI see you standing on the other Dside
EmI don't know how the river Dgot so wide
I loCved you, baby, way back when G
EmAnd all the bridges are burning that we Dmight have crossed
EmBut I feel so close to everyDthing that we lost
We'll Cnever have to lose it again D
Verse
I Gbid you farewell, I don't know when I'll be back
They're moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
But you'll be Chearing from me, baby
Long after I'm Ggone
I'll be Dspeaking to you sweetly from a winCdow
In the Tower Gof Song