“You hear these funny voices… In the Tower of Song”

by Vanderleun on April 24, 2021

Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play
And I’m crazy for love but I’m not coming on
I’m just paying my rent every day
Oh in the Tower of Song

I said to Hank Williams: how lonely does it get?
Hank Williams hasn’t answered yet
But I hear him coughing all night long
A hundred floors above me
In the Tower of Song

I was born like this, I had no choice
I was born with the gift of a golden voice
And twenty-seven angels from the Great Beyond
They tied me to this table right here
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
I’m standing by the window where the light is strong
Ah they don’t let a woman kill you
Not 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
And there’s a mighty judgment coming, but I may be wrong
You see, you hear these funny voices
In the Tower of Song

I see you standing on the other side
I don’t know how the river got so wide
I loved you baby, way back when
And all the bridges are burning that we might have crossed
But I feel so close to everything that we lost
We’ll never, we’ll never have to lose it again

Now I bid 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 hearing from me baby, long after I’m gone
I’ll be speaking to you sweetly
From a window in the Tower of Song

Yeah my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play
And I’m crazy for love but I’m not coming on
I’m just paying my rent every day
Oh in the Tower of Song

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Joe April 24, 2021, 10:23 AM

“I ache in places I used to play”
It is difficult getting older and i am sure people have different parts of this song that they connect with.
That is my biggest issue, good thing i still remember the month long snowboarding trip that caused the problem. Sleeping in the parking lot in Wyoming in late December was also priceless.

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jd April 24, 2021, 10:51 AM

Always loved this song with him singing it. Used to catch it
late at night on Austin City Limits. I wrote him a letter once
and he answered it. He was holed up in a cabin in the mountains,
writing.

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Terry April 24, 2021, 11:18 AM

Wonderful. A Soul searchers ballad. I’ve been a Leonard Cohen fan for many years.

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gwbnyc April 25, 2021, 6:44 PM

1) not all about him all time ___
2) all about him all the time ✔️

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