Lyrics to
The Tower

This version of The Tower was released by Chris De Burgh in 1975.

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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.

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Chris De Burgh has released many songs over the years besides The Tower. Chris De Burgh released songs from 1975 to 2006 spanning across albums like Spanish Train And Other Stories, Far Beyond These Castle Walls, At The End Of A Perfect Day, Crusader, Eastern Wind, The Getaway, Man On The Line, Into The Light, Flying Colours, Power Of Ten, This Way Up, Beautiful Dreams, Quiet Revolution, Timing Is Everything, The Road To Freedom, and The Storyman. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Chris De Burgh.

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About Lyrics and The Tower by Chris De Burgh

When you decide to study the lyrics to The Tower, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Chris De Burgh. Some of the lyrics to The Tower have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Chris De Burgh and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to The Tower if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to The Tower" means the words set to the music of The Tower, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Chris De Burgh. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to The Tower and the lyrics to The Tower are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Chris De Burgh who came here looking just for the lyrics to The Tower, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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