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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 I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on |
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I'm 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 hasn't 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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I'm very sorry, baby, doesn't look like me at all |
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I'm standing by the window where the light is strong |
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Ah they don't let a woman kill you |
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Not in the Tower of Song |
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Now you can say that I've 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 there's 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 don't 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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We'll never have to lose it again |
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Now I bid you farewell, I don't know when I'll be back |
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There moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track |
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But you'll be hearing from me baby, long after I'm gone |
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I'll 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 I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on |
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I'm just paying my rent every day |
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Oh in the Tower of Song |
