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<ol><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102);">The closing track of </span><strong style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102);">I'm Your Man</strong><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102);">, Leonard Cohen penned this as a statement about the songwriting craft. </span></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102);">Speaking to </span><em style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102);">Q</em><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102);"> Magazine's Adrian Deevoy in 1991, he said, "Tower of Song is that place where the writer is stuck. </span></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102);">For better or worse, you're in it.</span></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102);"> I've come this far down the line. I'm not going to turn around and become a forest ranger or a neurosurgeon. </span></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102);">I'm a songwriter."</span></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><br></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 235, 212);">Cohen first started work on the song in the early eighties when he called the work "Raise My Voice in Song." </span></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 235, 212);">He abandoned it for several years, but one night in Montreal he completed the lyrics, called an engineer and recorded it in one take for </span><strong style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 235, 212);">I'm Your Man</strong><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 235, 212);"> using a toy synthesizer.</span></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><br></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102);">In 1995 a tribute album to Leonard Cohen was released with the title of </span><strong style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102);">Tower of Song: The Songs of Leonard Cohen</strong><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102);">.</span></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><br></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102);"> Despite taking its name from this tune, "Tower of Song" does not actually appear on the record.</span></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 235, 212);">Leonard Cohen sings of his midlife writer's block:</span></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><br></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><em style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 235, 212);">I ache in the places where I used to play</em></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><br></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 235, 212);">Asked years later by the </span><em style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 235, 212);">Mail on Sunday</em><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 235, 212);">'s pop critic Tim de Lisle how those places are doing, </span></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 235, 212);">Cohen replied gleefully: "I can't even locate them."</span></li></ol><p><br></p>