Queen Of The Winter Night

\r[narration]

\rAnd So Back At The Hotel
\rOur Angel Again Arrived
\rBut This Time He Went Up The Front Steps
\rWhich, Of Course, Led Him Inside
\r(it's One Of Those Things That Architects
\rConveniently Decide)

\rNow Hotels Are Quite Like People
\rNo Two Exactly The Same
\rAnd This One Had Such A Magical Past
\rThe Angel Found Himself Quite Entertained

\rThe Foyer Still Had An Elegance
\rThat The Years Could Not Disguise
\rAnd The Shadows Of Christmas Eves Long Disappeared
\rThis Night, Still Gently Glided By

\rFor In This Hotel, Here Side By Side
\rThe Past And The Present Dwelled
\rAnd The Ghosts Who Lived Here Not Only Lived
\rThey Honestly, Lived Well

\rThe Lobby Had A Steinway Piano
\rThat Was Steeped In Memories
\rAnd Some Said Duke Ellington's Fingers
\rStill Lingered On Those Keys

\rThere Was A Grand Palace Ballroom
\rWhere Princesses Had Once Waltzed
\rWhose Beauty And Sense Of Style
\rThe Newspapers Would Constantly Exhault

\rThe Ghosts Of Rockefellers And Vanderbilts
\rStill Met At Their Christmas Eve Charity Balls
\rRaising Money Not For Themselves
\rBut Raising It For All
\r(and The Sound Of Their Children Laughing
\rStill Echoed In These Halls)

\rNow These Spirits Of Course, Could Not Be Seen
\rBy Any Human Eyes
\rBut Each One Smiled At The Angel
\rWhen They Saw Him Walking By

\rAnd These Ghosts Reminded The Angel
\rHow Every Human Waiting To Be Born,
\rAnd Every Life That Had Already Left
\rWhen It Was Tired Out And Worn

\rWere Connected By Those Alive Right Now
\rWhich Gave The Living Quite A Trust,
\rTo Pass On What Was Best And Good
\rInside Of Each Of Us

\rNow Within Each Guest Room He Heard Many Hearts
\rAnd Behind Each Heart There Was A Life
\rAnd The Angel Carefully Read Them All
\rWith The Next Hour Of That Night

\rWhen He Reached The Grand Palace Ballroom
\rIt Was Behind Closed Mahogany Doors
\rAnd When The Angel Was Passing By It
\rHe Could Hear Music Begin Once More

\rIt Seemed That Since This Room Was Built
\rMusicians Did Permanently Reside
\rAnd Then The Angel Did What We All Would Do
\rHe Went To Look Inside

\rAnd There He Found Such A Majestic Orchestra
\rTo Please All, It Would Be Enough
\rBut Then Someone Plugged A Guitar In
\rAnd The Volume, It Crept Up

\rSo With A Song Inspired By Mozart's
\rFamous "queen Of The Night"
\rThe Orchestra Added The Word, "winter"
\rAnd Some Notes, Some Fog, Some Lights

\r[queen Of The Winter Night]

\r[instrumental]