Well, my friends are gone, and my hair is gray I ache in the places where I used to play And I'm crazy for love, but I'm not coming home I'm just paying my rent everyday 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 All 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 Well, 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 How they don't let a woman kill you, not in the Tower of Song Well, 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, I hear these funny voices in the Tower of Song I see you standing on the other side 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 I feel so close to everything we've lost We'll never, we'll never have to lose it again So I bid you farewell, don't know when I'll be back They're moving us tomorrow to the Tower down the track But you'll be hearing from me, baby, long after I'm gone Now he's speaking to you sweetly from my window in the Tower of Song Well, my friend's 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 home I'm just paying my rent every day in the Tower of Song I'm just paying my rent every day in the Tower of Song