tower of song

• cohen'in hank williams'e saygi durusu.
• reid jamieson tarafından kusursuz seslendirilmiş olan parça.^***
• bu şarkının martha wainwright versiyonunun da kesinlikle dinlenmesi gerekir kanımca.
  
  buyursunlar efendim, ahanda linki burada:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/…cafdbstasok&feature=related
• yapılmaz, bu kadar muhteşem şarkı sözü yazılamaz, yazılırsa da işte cohen'den başkası olamaz dedirten leonard cohen parçalarından biri.
  
  kendisinden, güzel gülüşünü seyrederek dinlemek için:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umon_0bzuzc
• i was born with the gift of a golden voice mısrasında dinleyenlerin orgazm olduğu deneysel çalışmalarla ispatlanmış leonard cohen'in favori konser başlangıç parçası.
• well, my friends are gone and my hair is grey
  ı ache in the places where ı used to play
  and ı'm crazy for love but ı'm not coming on
  ı'm just paying my rent every day in the tower of song
  ı said to hank williams, how lonely does it get?
  hank williams hasn't answered yet
  but ı hear him coughing all night long
  oh, a hundred floors above me in the tower of song
  ı was born like this, ı had no choice
  ı was born with the gift of a golden voice
  and twenty-seven angels from the great beyond
  they tied me to this table right here in the tower of song
  so you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll
  ı'm very sorry, baby, doesn't look like me at all
  ı'm standing by the window where the light is strong
  ah, they don't let a woman kill you, not in the tower of song
  now, you can say that ı'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 ı may be wrong
  you see, you hear these funny voices in the tower of song
  ı see you standing on the other side
  ı don't know how the river got so wide
  ı loved you baby, way back when
  and all the bridges are burning that we might have crossed
  but ı feel so close to everything that we lost
  we'll never, we'll never have to lose it again
  now ı bid you farewell, ı don't know when ı'll be back
  they're moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
  but you'll be hearing from me baby, long after ı'm gone
  ı'll be speaking to you sweetly from a window in the tower of song
  yeah, my friends are gone and my hair is gray
  ı ache in the places where ı used to play
  and ı'm crazy for love but ı'm not coming on
  ı'm just paying my rent every day in the tower of song