Stages chords and lyrics - LEONARD COHEN

Lời & hợp âm

[Intro 1]
[Ab]

[Verse 1]
[Ab]Thank you for your generosity
This is a gesture of
Compassion to the elderly
You know, I was talking with
[E]some of [Ab]the guys
Some of the guys in this band are kind of
You know over the hill
And they were talking about the
Various stages that a man
goes through
In relation to his allure
to the opposite sex
It was not a scientific
evaluation
Just something that arose over
A cup of coffee it went
something like this:
You start off irresistible
And, then you become resistible
And then you become transparent
Not exactly invisible,
but as if you are seen
Through old plastic
And then you actually do
become invisible
And then
And this is the most amazing
transformation
You become repulsive but
that’s not
That’s not the end of the story
After repulsive, you become a cute
And that’s where I am
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[C]

[Verse 2]
[G]
Yeah, my friends [C]have gone and
My hair is grey
And I ache in the places
[G]where I used [C]to play
And I'm crazy [F]for love,
but I'm not coming [C]on[G][C]
I'm [G]just paying my rent every [F]day
In the Tower [C]of Song
[F]I'm just pay[G]ing my rent every day
[F]In the Tower of [G]Song
[C]

[Verse 3]
[G]
Now, I said to [C]Hank Williams:
How lonely does it get?
[G]Oh, [C]Hank Williams he hasn't answered yet
[G]Oh, but I hea[F]r him coughing all
All night [C]long
[F]Yeah, a [G]hundred floors above [F]me
In the Tower [C]of Song

[Outro 1]
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