The papers said the storm had passed over you
Thank you for the play you wrote about Heloise
And her injury at the hand of an almighty memory
And I might have guessed
That you'd press a rose in the pages
Where Abelard confesses
His love and his pain
To her lips
And Nora, it was no sin
They could turn the other cheek
Or take it on the chin
But Nora, it was no sin
So Christmas was as blue for you as it was for me
All those angels trumpeting their ecstasy
Your husband has accepted the parish in Greenland
I met him drowning his vows at the bar
And there we raised
The first and the next
And a third glass to you
Hunched on our bar-stools
Calling our truce
By your name
And Nora, there is no sin
We can turn the other cheek
Or take it on the chin
But Nora, there is no sin
Nora, there is no sin
Nora, there is no sin
New York has been buried in snow since last Saturday The papers said the storm had passed over you Thank you for the play you wrote about Heloise And her injury at the hand of an almighty memory And I might have guessed That you'd press a rose in the pages Where Abelard confesses His love and his pain To her lips And Nora, it was no sin They could turn the other cheek Or take it on the chin But Nora, it was no sin So Christmas was as blue for you as it was for me All those angels trumpeting their ecstasy Your husband has accepted the parish in Greenland I met him drowning his vows at the bar And there we raised The first and the next And a third glass to you Hunched on our bar-stools Calling our truce By your name And Nora, there is no sin We can turn the other cheek Or take it on the chin But Nora, there is no sin Nora, there is no sin Nora, there is no sin Explain Request ×
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