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The Tower (Letra)

Curso de Violão - Fórmula Violão

A great lord came walking through the forest
one morning with a weapon in his hand;
Rich was his castle, he lacked for nothing,
but killing was his plan;
When a white bird flew by she fell from the sky,
Nothing was found, only blood on the ground, she was gone;

Cursing his fortune,
he turned to the forest to kill once again,
And standing before him was a lovely young woman
with her hand hung in pain,
When he saw her his eyes were filled with desire,
He said “I must have her, she must be mine,
She will be mine…”

He offered her silver, he offered her gold,
but she threw it on the ground,
He fell to his knees and he begged her,
“Oh please come with me,
what you wish will be found;”
she said, “Sire, I’ll go if you’ll put up your bow,
and spare these creatures, leave them in peace,
You have no need…”

But her words were lost in the wind
His eyes were fixed on a queen
And all he saw was a woman
And all she was, was a dream…
Oh oh…And all he saw was a woman, and all she was,
Was a dream…

He took her and bound her with ropes tied around her
to his castle he did ride;
in the wood was a bower where stood an an old tower
and he threw her deep inside;
then the birds left the sky and a terrible cry,
brought thunder and lightning, rain falling down,
Tears on the ground…

All through the days on her face he would gaze,

peace”,
and some sad lament she would sing,
Oh one day by the door, through the window he saw
A single white feather lying on the floor.
She was there no more…

Now that great lord is dying,
his cold heart is crying for the love of a girl;
for many an hour he has wept on the Tower
for she meant more than the world;
and once in the sky, a white bird flew by,
he lifted his hands, he cried out in pain
“Come back again…”

But his words were lost in the wind,
His castle was built upon sand,
All he saw was her memory,
And all he yearns is her hand…
Ah ah..All he has, is the memory,
And all he yearns is her hand.

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The Tower (Letra)

Curso de Violão - Fórmula Violão

A great lord came walking through the forest
One morning with a weapon in his hand;
Rich was his castle, he lacked for nothing,
But killing was his plan;
When a white bird flew by she fell from the sky,
Nothing was found, only blood on the ground, she was gone;

Cursing his fortune,
He turned to the forest to kill once again,
And standing before him was a lovely young woman
With her hand hung in pain,
When he saw her his eyes were filled with desire,
He said "i must have her, she must be mine,
She will be mine…"

He offered her silver, he offered her gold,
But she threw it on the ground,
He fell to his knees and he begged her,
"oh please come with me,
What you wish will be found;"
She said, "sire, i’ll go if you’ll put up your bow,
And spare these creatures, leave them in peace,
You have no need…"

But her words were lost in the wind
His eyes were fixed on a queen
And all he saw was a woman
And all she was, was a dream…
Oh oh…and all he saw was a woman, and all she was,
Was a dream…

He took her and bound her with ropes tied around her
To his castle he did ride;
In the wood was a bower where stood an an old tower
And he threw her deep inside;
Then the birds left the sky and a terrible cry,
Brought thunder and lightning, rain falling down,
Tears on the ground…

All through the days on her face he would gaze,
For she was lovely as the spring;
No words would she speaketh but "leave them in peace",
And some sad lament she would sing,
Oh one day by the door, through the window he saw
A single white feather lying on the floor.
She was there no more…

Now that great lord is dying,
His cold heart is crying for the love of a girl;
For many an hour he has wept on the tower
For she meant more than the world;
And once in the sky, a white bird flew by,
He lifted his hands, he cried out in pain
"come back again…"

But his words were lost in the wind,
His castle was built upon sand,
All he saw was her memory,
And all he yearns is her hand…
Ah ah..all he has, is the memory,
And all he yearns is her hand.

The Tower (Letra)

Curso de Violão - Fórmula Violão

the one who survives by making the lives
of others worthwhile
she’s coming apart
right before my eyes
the one who depends on the services she renders
to those who come knocking
she’s seeing too clearly what she can’t be
what understanding defies

she says I need not to need
or else a love with intuition
someone who reaches out to my weakness and won’t let go
I need not to need
I’ve always been the tower
but now I feel like I’m the flower trying to bloom in snow

she turns out the light anticipating night falling
tenderly around her
and watches the dusk
the words won’t come
she carries the act so convincingly the fact is
sometimes she believes it
that she can be happy the way things are
be happy with the things she’s done

reach out
but hold back
where is safety
reach out
and hold back
where is the one who can change me
where is the one
the one
the one

reach out
but hold back
where is safety
reach out
and hold back
where is the one who can save me
where is the one
the one
the one

The Tower (Letra)

Curso de Violão - Fórmula Violão

I’m rollin’ up in a big gray bus
And i’m shackled down
Myself that’s who i trust
The minute i arrived
Some sucker got hit
Shanked ten times
Behind some bullshit
Word in the pen the fool was a snitch
So without hesitatin’
I made a weapon quick
If found a sharp piece of metal
Taped it to a stick
Then a bullhorn sounds
That means it’s time for chow
My first prison meal
The whole feeling was foul
It wasn’t quite my style
But my stomach growled
So i flushed the shit down
And hit the weight pile
The brothers was swole
The attitudes was cold
Felt the tension on the yard
From the young and the old
But i’m a warrior
I got my ground to hold
So i studied the inmates
To see who hd the power
The whites? the blacks?
Or just the gun tower!

In a blink of an eye, a riot broke out
Blacks put their backs to the wall
Cause it was north and south
A gun man shouts
And everybody had doubt
Until the bullets started fly’n
Took two men out
Thn they rushed everybody
Back to their cells
Damn the pen is different than
The county jail
I’m in a one man cell
I know my life’s on a scale
I wonder if that gunman is goin’ to hell
This is my second day
I got a ten year stay
I learned my first lesson
In the pen you don’t plaay
I saw a brother kill another
Cause he said he was gay
But that’s the way it is
It been that way for years
And when his body hit the ground
I heard a couple of cheers
It kind of hurt me inside
That they were glad he died
And i ask myself
Just who had the power?
The whites? the blacks?
Or just the gun tower!

You see the whites got a thing
The call white pride
The blacks got the muscle
Mexicans got the knives
You better be wise
You wanna stay alive
Go toe to toe with a sucka
No matter wht size
A fool tried to sweat me
Act’n like he was hard
I stuck him twice in the neck
And left him dead in the yard
It was smooth how i did it
Cause nobody could see
With my jacket on my arm
And my knife on the side of me
Bam bam, it was over
Another one bites the dust
I went crazy in the pen
With nobody to trust
Bench’n ten quarters, so i’m hard to sweat
Used a tat gun, and engrved my set
They call me a lifer
Cause i’m good as dead
I live in the hole, so the floor’s my bed
And i ask myself again
Who has the power
The whites? the blacks?
Or just the gun tower