tower of song interpretation

[sunwaveX666]

Hi,

I don´t get the main "message" of tower of song.
Could somebody interpretet the lyrics?
I´m from Italy, sorry!!!
But i´m a really big fan!

[tomsakic]

I think it's metaphor of his life in art, and music, and it seems pretty obvious with lines about Hank Willians, angels, and how he's "tied to this table in the tower of song". And the Tower of Song is the song were all musicians and poets are (Hank Wiliams is in there), the place where he's condemned to be the whole his life. In any case, it seems to me like those people tied in the Tower of Song are like some kinds of convicts. "Poetry is not an occupation, but verdict". (L. Cohen)

[Cohen Kid]

your explanation makes sense
maybe i;m ignorant, but I think it's also about looking at everything through the eyes of a poet. and saying it's hard to keep doing good music.
great song!

[icecreamtruck]

No ignorance there!

[lizzytysh]

I like your interpretation a lot, Cohen Kid. With it in mind, I just went and read the lyrics, from the Song Index link, on the main page of this site.

~ Lizzy

[Chandler]

I always called it the RCA Building.. but then I haven't been to Hollywood for 50 years...

This was Leonard's Tower.
http://www.answers.com/topic/capitol-records

[Steven]

I understood the "tower" as symbolic of the songwriter's position of
being an observer, removed and detached in some ways from the
ordinary aspects of other people's lives and experiences.
--Answering at the risk of possibly helping someone with a
homework assignment and shortchanging him/her of the experience of
personally thinking this through. Ciao.