Tower of Song

I don't want anyone to get alarmed

I know you've probably never seen one of these before

But, it goes by itself

Now, 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 comin' on

I'm just payin' my rent every day in the tower of song

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

Hank Williams hasn't me answered yet

But I hear him coughing all night long

Yeah, a hundred floors above me in the tower of song

You're very kind, thank you

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

Yeah, 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, it doesn't look like me at all

I'm standin' by the window, where the light is strong

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

There's a Mighty Judgement comin', but I may be wrong

You see, I hear these funny voices, in the tower of song

I see you standin' on the other side

I don't know how the river got this wide

I loved you, baby, way back when

And all the bridges are burnin' that we might've crossed

But I feel so damn close to everything that we lost

We'll never, never have to lose it again

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

They're movin' us tomorrow to the tower down the track

But you'll be, you'll be hearin' from me, darling, long after I'm gone

I'll be speakin' to you sweetly from my 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 comin' on

I'm just payin' my rent everyday, in the tower of song

Don't stop, don't leave me here alone, don't ever stop

Sing me to bed and sing through to the morning

Because, I'm so grateful to you because

Tonight, it's become clear to me, tonight the, the great mysteries have unravelled

And I've penetrated to the very core of things

And I have, stumbled on the answer

And, I'm not the sort of chap, that would keep this to himself

Do you want to hear the answer?

Yeah

Are you truly hungry for the answer?

Yeah

Then you're just the people I want to tell it to

Because it's a rare thing to come upon this

I'm going to let you in on it now

The answer, to the mysteries