[Verse 1]

Who needs heaven?

From my ivory tower the view is 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

[Chorus]

Dearest Nancy

Dances past me

Dearest Nancy

Dances past me

[Verse 2]

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

[Chorus]

Dearest Nancy

Dances past me

Dearest Nancy

Dances past me (Looks right at me)

[Bridge]

Give me 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

[Chorus]

Dearest Nancy

Dances past me

Dearest Nancy

Dances past me (Looks right at me)

Dearest Nancy

Dances past me

Dearest Nancy

Dances past me