Let's take a minute for her, ha-ha-ha ♪ The tower of Montevideo Has many rooms Some of them are empty Since I left you (since I left you) Standing in silhouette By the long window Drinking coffee scrutinized by the black cat Who lies on the daybed and abandons the world As the hours slides off the page like clouds Somewhere else ♪ (In the tower of Montevideo) Once there was cinema And we had parties And a light at the top of the tower Could reach Argentina (since I left you) Where they talk behind doors of the new worlds And faraway places And the portrait of the architect is kept Down in the basement The tower of Montevideo ♪ The tower of Montevideo ♪ I can hear music I can hear footsteps Ghost of the empty room Montevideo ♪ The tower of Montevideo