Tower Of Song — текст песни (Nick Cave and The Bad Seed)

Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places I used to play
And I`m crazy for love but I`m not coming on
I`m paying my rent everyday in the Tower of Song


I said to Leonard Cohen: How lonely does it get?
Leonard Cohen hasn`t answered me yet
But I can hear him coughing all night long,
A million floors above me in the Tower of Song


I was born like this, I had no choice
I was born like this, with a golden voice
Twenty-seven angels from the Great Beyond,
Well they tied me to this table right here in the Tower of Song


You can stick your needles in a voodoo doll
I`m sorry baby, but it don`t look like me at all
I`m standing by the window where the light is strong
They don`t let a woman kill you in the Tower of Song


I`ve grown bitter, bitter, of this you may be sure:
The rich, the rich have got channels in the bedrooms of the poor
And there`s a mighty judgement but it won`t be long, but I may be wrong
You see, you hear these funny voices in the Tower of Song - oh yeah -
The guitar, the bass, the drums, so nice every hour in the Tower of Song


I see you standing on the other side
I don`t know how the river got so wide
But I loved you, baby, way back when
All the bridges are burning that we might have crossed,
But I feel so close to everything that we lost
But I`ll never have to lose you again, Tower of Song


I bid you farewell, I don`t know when I`m back
They`re moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
But you`ll be hearing from me, baby, long after I`m gone
I`m speaking to you sweetly from a window in the Tower of Song


Now you can say that I`ve grown bitter, of this you can be sure:
The rich have got channels in the bedrooms of the poor
And there`s a mighty judgement but it won`t take long, I may be wrong