Alice: The wishes that the drop might wish Before the brush’s bristled kiss But 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 come 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
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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
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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 to 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 you’ll never see again
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 will 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 coal that sings hosanna in the fire Hosanna hosanna