Nancy Dearest

Who needs heaven? From my ivory tower the view's crystal clear So I ask you, who needs heaven When all my messages get sent up here? And if you need me I'll be lying down without a darling left to kill Do you feel me? Me and the agony I can't conceal Dearest Nancy dances past me Dearest Nancy dances past me Every night caves in Every echo looks at me askance Every hole I'm in Hades hovers over the entrance And if you ask me A glance at the past, a mass of bridges burned If you ask me, see no-one does Less than heard, less than learned Dearest Nancy dances past me Dearest Nancy dances past me (looks right at me) Gimme a chance to cruel the pitch with the emphasis on cruel Once too much the crown is left to reinvent the jewel Successes in inverted commas showing on my face Incredulous when anybody puts me in my place Eclipsed by smudges on a hit list I had back in school Just rid me of my ego and go leave me by the pool This sycophant's so sick of it I'd wager he's a shill I've seen the well of emptiness and I have had my fill Dearest Nancy dances past me Dearest Nancy dances past me (looks right at me) Dearest Nancy dances past me Dearest Nancy dances past me