Tower of Song - Leonard Cohen - MP3 instrumental karaoke

Lovable miserabilist Leonard Cohen built his "Tower of Song" from bare-bones synth-pop and his famous deep-toned sing-speaking style that made his poetry jump off the page. "Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey / I ache in the places where I used to play / And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on / I'm just paying my rent every day / In the Tower of Song," he muses on the 1988 song, which was recited by Leonard Cohen in full when he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008. "Tower of Song" was the closing track on his 1988 album I'm Your Man, which embraced fresh, synth-powered production and emerged as one of his most celebrated records, becoming his biggest triumph in the US, and going to Number 1 number one Norway and various other European countries, while elevating Leonard Cohen's position from treasured songwriter to best-selling artist.