"Ivory Tower" is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and included on his 1986 album, No Guru, No Method, No Teacher.

The song was also released as a single with the B-side "A New Kind of Man", from his previous album A Sense of Wonder.

Clinton Heylin writes this about the song "A chorus about how tough 'It really must be/ To be me, to see like me, to feel like me' threatens the spirituality self-effacing mood he had previously maintained.

"[1] Biographer John Collis takes the same viewpoint by saying "Ivory Tower, totally breaks the mold – it's an r'n'b shaker just like those produced by the Van Morrison of old, though now he suffers from self pity: "Don't you know the price I have to pay/Just to do everything I have to do..."[2] Billboard said it is an "upbeat r&b boogie.

"[3] Cash Box said it is an "outstanding and blustery return to form for the brilliant and visionary Morrison.