^GWell my friends are gone and my hair is grey I ache in the places where I used to play And I'm^C crazy for love but I'm not coming on^G I'm just^D paying my rent every^Cday In the Tower of So^Gng

^GI said to Hank Williams: How lonely does it get? Hank Williams hasn't answered yet. But I h^Cear him coughing all night lon^Gg A hund^Dred floors above me^C ^A, ^hundred, ^floors, ^above, ^me G In the Tower of So^Gng

^GI was born like this, I had no choice. I was born with the gift of a golden voice. And twe^Cnty-seven angels from the Great beyon^Gd They ti^Ded me to this table right her^Ce In the Tower of Son^Gg

^GSo you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll I'm very sorry, baby, doesn't look like me at all I'm stan^Cding by the window where the light is str^Gong They don't l^Det a woman kill you,^C not In the Tower of So^Gng

^GNow 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 m^Cighty judgment coming But I may be wron^Gg You see, you h^Dear these funny voice^Cs In the Tower of Son^Gg

^EmI see you standing on the other s^Dide ^EmI don't know how the river g^Dot so wide I lo^Cved you, baby, way back when^G ^EmAnd all the bridges are burning that we ^Dmight have crossed ^EmBut I feel so close to everythin^Dg that we lost We'll^C never have to lose it agai^Dn

I^G 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 h^Cearing from me, baby Long after I'm ^Ggone I'll be s^Dpeaking to you sweetly from a w^Cindow In the Tower ^Gof Song

Leonard Cohen - Tower Of Songs