Tower Of Song chords by Leonard Cohen (Official Version)
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Well, my friends are gone
and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play
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And I'm crazy for love
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but I'm not coming on
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I'm just paying my rent every day
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in the Tower of Song
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Verse 2
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I said to Hank Williams,
how lonely does it get?
Hank Williams hasn't answered yet
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But I hear him coughing
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all night long
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Oh, a hundred floors above me
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in the Tower of Song
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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I was born like this,
I had no choice
I was born with the gift
of a golden voice
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And twenty-seven angels
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from the Great Beyond
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They tied me to this table
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right here in the Tower of Song
Verse 4
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So you can stick your little pins
in that voodoo doll
I'm very sorry, baby,
doesn't look like me at all
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I'm standing by the window
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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
Interlude 2
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Verse 5
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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
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And there's a mighty judgment coming,
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but I may be wrong
F#
You see, you hear these funny voices
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in the Tower of Song
Bridge 1
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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
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that we might have crossed
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But I feel so close
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to everything that we lost
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We'll never, we'll never have to
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it again
Verse 6
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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
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But you'll be hearing from me baby,
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long after I'm gone
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I'll be speaking to you sweetly
E
from a window in the Tower of Song
Interlude 3
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Verse 7
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Yeah, my friends are gone
and my hair is gray
I ache in the places where I used to play
E
And I'm crazy for love
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but I'm not coming on
F#
I'm just paying my rent
E
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every day in the Tower of Song
Outro 1
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[Fade out]
Tower Of Song
Leonard Cohen
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