JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Penyanyi dan penulis lagu asal Kanada, Leonard Cohen, memopulerkan lagu berjudul “Tower of Song”.
Lagu bergenre pop tersebut dirilis pada 1988 melalui label rekaman Columbia Records.
“Tower of Song” muncul dalam album studionya yang bertajuk I’m Your Man.
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Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Tower of Song” dari Leonard Cohen:
Capo di fret ke-4
[Verse 1]
G
Well, my friends are gone, and my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play
C G
And I'm crazy for love, but I'm not coming on
D C G
I'm just paying my rent everyday in the Tower of Song
[Verse 2]
G
I said to Hank Williams: "How lonely does it get?", Hank Williams hasn't answered yet
C G
But I hear him coughing all night long
D C G
A hundred floors above me in the Tower of Song
[Verse 3]
G
I was born like this, I had no choice, I was born with the gift of a golden voice
C G
And twenty-seven angels from the great beyond
D C G
They tied me to this table right here in the Tower of Song
[Verse 4]
G
So you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll, I'm very sorry, baby, doesn't look like me at all
C G
I'm standing by the window where the light is strong
D C G
They don't let a woman kill you, not in the Tower of Song
[Verse 5]
G
Now you can say that I've grown bitter, but of this you may be sure: the rich have got their channels
C G
In the bedrooms of the poor, and there's a mighty judgment coming, but I may be wrong
D C G
You see, you hear these funny voices in the Tower of Song
[Bridge]
Em D Em D
I see you standing on the other side, I don't know how the river got so wide
C G
I loved you, baby, way back when
Em D Em D
And all the bridges are burning that we might've crossed, but I feel so close to everything that we lost
C D
We'll never, we'll never have to lose it again
[Verse 6]
G
I bid you farewell, don't know when I'll be back, they're moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
C G
But you'll be hearing from me, baby, long after I'm gone
D C G
I'll be speaking to you sweetly from a window in the Tower of Song
[Verse 7]
G
Yeah, my friends are gone, and my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play
C G
And I'm crazy for love, but I'm not coming on
D C G
I'm just paying my rent everyday in the Tower of Song