Seems So Long Ago, Nancy

Album: Songs From a Room (1969)
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  • It seems so long ago
    Nancy was alone
    Looking at the Late Late show
    Through a semi-precious stone
    In the House of Honesty
    Her father was on trial
    In the House of Mystery
    There was no one at all
    There was no one at all

    It seems so long ago
    None of us were strong
    Nancy wore green stockings
    And she slept with everyone

    She never said she'd wait for us
    Although she was alone
    I think she fell in love for us
    In nineteen sixty one
    In nineteen sixty one

    It seems so long ago
    Nancy was alone
    A forty five beside her head
    An open telephone

    We told her she was beautiful
    We told her she was free
    But none of us would meet her in
    The House of Mystery
    The House of Mystery

    And now you look around you
    See her everywhere
    Many use her body
    Many comb her hair

    In the hollow of the night
    When you are cold and numb
    You hear her talking freely then
    She's happy that you've come
    She's happy that you've come Writer/s: Leonard Cohen
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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