Here's a version of Leonard Cohen's 'Seems So Long Ago, Nancy' that I recorded for a cover feature CD for Mojo magazine a few years back. 

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Seems So Long Ago, Nancy

Behind

Young & Old

She put up a wall of alabaster ‘round her heart.
Dense enough to keep me out, but let the light shine in.
Even when I asked her, she could not recite her part.
She’d just cry.

She described herself as needing more, but could not say
What it was she needed - what her plan was - why she cared.
Even when I asked her, she could not confront the truth.
She was scared.

It looks so hard, like stone and steel, but still the light shone in.
But once the light went in, it’d stay right there.
A heart like that cannot survive to say just where it’s been.
Or even if it’s been anywhere.

INSTRUMENTAL

She could not control the circumstances she was giv’n.
So, instead, she let it die, she let it crash and burn.
Even when I asked her, she could not describe the pain.
She’d just burn.

It looks so hard, like stone and steel, but still the light shone in.
But once the light went in, it’d stay right there.
A heart like that cannot survive to say just where it’s been.
Or even if it’s been anywhere.

Alabaster Heart

These Troubled Times

It's so nice to see your face again
Guess what I've been up to
I've been wandering and I've been wondering
Where you got to
And it's so nice to see you again
I've been missing your company
Since I've been

Trapped in a spin, wondering how I'm gonna win
And I've been locked up so far down below
Trapped in a spin, wondering how things could've been
But you said I don't need to know the things I'll never know

It's so nice to see your face again
Guess what I've been up to
I've been wandering and I've been wondering
Where's my god to
And it's so nice to see you again
I've been missing your company
Since I've been

Trapped in a spin, wondering how how I'm gonna win
And I've been locked up so far down below
Trapped in a spin, wondering how things could've been
But you said I don't need to know the things I'll never know

Trapped in a spin, wondering how how I'm gonna win
And I've been locked up so far down below
Trapped in a spin, wondering how things could've been
But you said I don't need to know the things I'll never know

Wandering and Wondering - Demo

GRASS (DEMO)

Gregory Alan Isakov - If I Go, I'm Going

Tell me dear. If I had found the way into your heart, would you let me in?
Hold me dear cause I just cried myself to sleep at night and I don't know why.
And though I don't remember how we met, and god I hope I don't forget your name,

you're forever in my heart till death may do us part.
You're forever in my heart till death may do us part.

Let me rest my head, on your shoulder till I'm dead
and let me make amends for a life I couldn't comprehend.

This is a waltz, this is a waltz. 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, this is a waltz.
Hold your applause and hold me while you're at it.
I'm wearing your smile, you're wearing my jacket.

tell me dear, you must.
While there's no one here but us.
How could something as sharp as a knife,
give meaning to all my life?

How could somebody who sins as much as he breaths.
Who shatters more hearts than he has teeth.
Who closes his eyes cause there's nothing to see.
leave me be my darling, run.

Or stay right here with me,
I'm sorry in advance.
But if I could my love,
let me have this dance.

These Troubled Times

Ali

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