lyrics of tower of song Interpretation?

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sunwaveX666
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lyrics of tower of song Interpretation?

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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!
Chandler
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Tower of Song

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The Tower was the RCA Building in Hollywood.
It looked like a stack of Records...
Hank Williams died at age 26 .. he smoked a lot..
therefore the lyrics, "I heard him coughing all night long.."
In one of Leonards books he explains this..
Chan
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I like the lines "you can stick your little pins in that woodoo doll, Im very sorry baby doesnt look like me at all, I standing by the window, where the light is strong, they don't let a woman kill you in the tower of song"
So much for the depression theory

and "a mighty judgment comming, but I may wrong, you see I hear these funny voices in the tower of song"" either he is a prohet or insane

Hank williams, was simple and great, Lennon was simple

Peter
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Lennon was simple
So is Zen... which makes it great.

Ask Einstein about a grain of sand.


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"Buddha was a Tiny fat man" thats a simple sentence, is it also great?
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