Tower of Song-Christine Tobin

[ti:Tower of Song] [ar:Christine Tobin] [al:A Thousand Kisses Deep] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Tower of Song - Christine Tobin [00:08.79]My friends are gone and my hair is grey [00:12.76]I ache in places where I used to play [00:16.52]And I'm crazy for love but I'm not comin' on [00:22.42] [00:24.90]I'm just payin' my rent every day in the tower [00:30.06]Of song [00:33.89] [00:37.83]I said to Hank Williams how lonely does it get [00:41.50] [00:42.36]Hank Williams hasn't answered yet [00:45.78]But I hear him coughing all night long [00:53.30] [00:54.15]A hundred floors above me in the tower of [00:58.84]Song [01:01.39] [01:06.06]I was born like this I had no choice [01:09.92]I was born with the gift of a golden voice [01:13.57] [01:14.09]And twenty seven angels from the great beyond [01:20.71] [01:22.24]They tied me to the table right here in the [01:25.79]Tower of song [01:30.05] [01:34.02]So you can stick your little pins in that voodoo [01:37.53]Doll [01:38.51]I'm very sorry baby it doesn't look like me at [01:41.68]All [01:42.46]And I'm standin' by the window where the light is strong [01:48.51] [01:50.11]They don't let a man kill you not in [01:53.68]The tower of song [01:57.62] [02:02.01]Well you can say that I've grown bitter but of [02:05.02]This you may be sure [02:06.75]The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of [02:09.32]The poor [02:10.51]And there's a mighty judgement comin' but I may be [02:15.06]Wrong [02:16.70] [02:18.46]You see I hear these funny voices in the tower [02:23.20]Of song [02:25.77] [02:27.57]I see you standin' on the other side [02:31.10]And I don't know how the river got so wide [02:34.77] [02:35.66]I loved you I loved you way back when [02:42.55]And all the bridges are burnin' that we might've crossed [02:46.99]And I feel so close to everything we've lost [02:50.87] [02:51.49]We'll never never have to lose it again [02:58.47]So I bid you farewell I don't know when I'll [03:01.84]Be back [03:02.84]They're movin' us tomorrow to the tower down the track [03:06.56]But you'll be hearin' from me baby long long after I'm [03:11.19]Gone [03:12.57] [03:14.53]'Cause I'll be singin' to you sweetly from a window in [03:17.85]The tower in the tower of song [03:23.54]In the tower of song [03:28.34] [04:15.72]I see you standing on the other side [04:19.19]And I don't know how the river got so wide [04:23.20]I loved you I loved you way back when [04:29.98] [04:30.62]And all the bridges are burning [04:32.81]That we might have crossed [04:34.87]And I feel so close to everything we've lost [04:38.99] [04:39.61]We'll never never have to lose it again [04:45.96] [04:46.67]So I bid you farewell [04:48.89]I don't know when I'll be back [04:51.24]They're moving us tomorrow [04:53.08]To the tower down the track [04:54.68]But you'll be hearing from me baby [04:57.37]Long long after I'm gone [05:00.80] [05:02.61]'Cause I'll be singing to you sweetly from my window [05:06.00]In the tower of song [05:11.07] [05:12.63]In the tower of song [05:17.67]Aaaaahhhhhh never [05:21.42]Aaahhh [05:22.23] [05:22.84]In the tower of song [05:30.65]In the tower of song [05:38.64]In the tower of song [05:46.48]In the tower of song