The Coal that Sings Hosanna

"The Coal that Sings Hosanna" is the eighth track of The Room Beneath New Albion.

## Lyrics

[ALICE:]

The wishes that the drop might wish

Before the brush’s bristled kiss

In the end, expectation is a liar

Into scenes at last is spread

A splash of white, a spot of red

On a canvas grand and awful shall expire

It’s not for you to wish or dream

A painter’s drop on endless seas

Take your place in history’s grand design

Little drop, before you go

Perhaps you’re loved, perhaps not so

Perhaps your solace comes to you in time

It’s over tonight, the canticle sung

Ah the task at last is now done

Tonight the last band plays and then retires

It’s over tonight, they fall where they may

Ah and those who can will walk away

The coal that sings hosanna in the fire

The princess laughs and grasps the night

In love beneath red endless skies

Little drop, before the brush arrives

The cackling girl lost underground

Burnt out like stars fallen down

The sad, mad coal still singing in the fire

It’s over tonight, the canticle sung

Ah the task at last is now done

Tonight the last band plays and then retires

It’s over tonight, they fall where they may

Ah and those who can will walk away

The coal that sings hosanna in the fire

Four years of fog, of city, tunnels, always running

And your head is always buzzing and you never can think straight

A blur, a whirl, a swirl, your body it decays, you madly scramble

Angel’s order, dolls and corridors but sometimes recall the day

When only love is what you wanted

Only love could find a way

His eyes, although most nights now you cannot recall his face

Only love is what you wanted

All your people and your place

The moment you were happy back before the endless ache

The dizzy dream and always stealing, building, reeling

Through the darkness like a good girl but I only want to think

I want to think just for a second, for a second could I stop just for

A second just to think, I’m dying, too late now but wait

Only love is what I wanted

Only love could find a way

Held on by a lover

By your family, your friends

Only love is what you wanted back before the hand of fate

Came to snatch you and to grab you as the days fade into day

All your memories fade away like the memory of their face

Which I’ll never see again

Oh Hosanna, hosanna hosanna

Oh Hosanna, hosanna hosanna

In the basements far beneath them

The furnace where you’ll burn away

Dream about the land

The soft touch of his careful hand

A million miles away

A million miles away

The wishes that the drop might yearn or dream or yet desire

Expectation is a liar, is a liar, is a liar

Enjoy the innocence, the first red endless day

In the end you’re just a drop of paint waiting to be painted

With a stroke and a crash on a canvas spread and swept

And of you in the end, there will be most nothing left

But I did it, yes I did it with a will of steel and fire

It is time now it is time yes

It’s over tonight, the canticle sung

Ah the task at last is now done

It’s over tonight, they fall where they may

Ah, and those who can will walk away

It’s over tonight, the last act retires

The coals that sing hosanna in the fire

Hosanna hosanna