Tower of Song (Live in Dublin)

Yeah, 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 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 answered yet

But I hear him coughin' all night long

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

Are you humoring me?

I accept it, thank you

If these are the crumbs of compassion

That you offer to the elderly

I am grateful

I was born like this, I had no choice

I was born with the gift of a golden voice

Twenty-seven angels from the great beyond

Yeah, they chained me to this table right here 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 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 this river got so wide

I loved you, baby, way back when

And all the bridges are burnin' 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

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

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

But you'll be hearing from me, baby, long after I'm gone

I'll be speakin' to you sweetly from my window in the tower of song

I'll be speakin' to you sweetly from my window in the tower of song

Yeah, my friends are gone, my hair is gray

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