Joan In The Garden

Album: As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again (2024)
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  • In a book I found
    Joan in the garden
    I will write this down
    I will lay her heart in mine
    For a time
    Write a line
    Erase a line

    In the dawning light (in the dawning light)
    As she left her body
    Gifted second sight (gifted second sight)
    Did she lay her dowry by?
    Lay it by
    Write a line
    Erase a line

    And if you listen closely
    You can hear them singing
    Ho, oh oh, oh oh
    Ho, oh oh, oh oh
    And if you listen closely
    You can hear them singing
    Ho, oh oh, oh oh
    Ho, oh oh, oh hosanna

    Make her ten miles tall (make her ten miles tall)
    Make her arms cleave mountains
    Let her temptors fall (let her temptors fall)
    Make her tears weep fountains by
    Now to try
    Write a line
    Erase a line

    And if you listen closely
    You can hear them singing
    Ho, oh oh, oh oh
    Ho, oh oh, oh oh
    And if you listen closely
    You can hear them singing
    Ho, oh oh, oh oh
    Ho, oh oh, oh hosanna

    Just another tinsel ornament
    Another troubled sky
    We are folded in the firmament
    Catch us as we fly

    I don't remember what I ought to be
    I only know what's right
    I'm suspended from the orrery
    Bursting into light

    If you listen closely
    You can hear them singing
    Ho, hosanna, hosanna

    If you listen closely
    You can hear them singing
    Ho, hosanna, hosanna, yeah
    Hosanna, yeah
    Hosanna, hosanna, yeah
    Hosanna, yeah
    Hosanna, hosanna, yeah
    Hosanna, yeah

    Over stone and grapevine
    Over the souls on the breadline
    There's a reckoning at hand, our hand

    See them flayed at the flagpole
    Catch it all on your console
    We have come at your command
    We stand, we stand

    Blessed babe on display
    Break her skull on the parquet
    Wayward mariner awake, we pray

    She is daughter and son
    The imperium undone
    All the autocrats are laid
    To waste, to waste

    Oh, holy whore androgyne
    Come and sunder the stop signs
    Break it all so we can build again

    Bring on Duke or Dauphin
    Blood will flow like a fountain
    As it ever was so it
    Will be again, will be again
    As it ever was so it
    Will be again, will be again
    As it ever was
    So it will be again, again
    Hosanna, hosanna, hosanna, yeah
    Hosanna, yeah
    Hosanna, yeah Writer/s: Colin Meloy
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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