The Coachman (live) - Forever and a Day

Here she comes in her palanquin On the back of an elephant On a bed made of linen and sequins and silk All astride on her father's line With the king and his concubines And her nurse, with her pitchers of liquors and milk And we'll all come praise the infanta And we'll all come praise the infanta Among five score pachyderm Each canopied and passengered Sit the duke and the duchess' luscious young girls Within sight of the baroness Seething spite for this lithe largesse By her side sits the baron Her barrenness barbs her And we'll all come praise the infanta And we'll all come praise the infanta A phalanx on camel back Thirty ranks on a forward tack Followed close, their shiny bright standards a-waving While behind, in their coach-and-fours Ride the wives of the king of Moors And the veiled young virgin, the prince's betrothed And we'll all come praise the infanta And we'll all come praise the infanta And as she sits upon her place Her innocence laid on her face From all atop the parapets blow a multitude of coronets Melodies rhapsodical and fair And all our hearts afire The sky ablaze with cannon fire We all raise our voices to the air To the air And above all this folderol On a bed made of chaparral She is laid, a coronal placed on her brow And the babe, all in slumber dreams Of a place, filled with quiet streams And the lake, where her cradle was pulled from the water And we'll all come praise the infanta And we'll all come praise the infanta And we'll all come praise the infanta

Sunday morning, half past four She went softly out the door In the early morning sun She didn't even tell a friend Not a goodbye in the end No one knew that she was gone Just a tear and sigh And as feelings die She is leaving it behind Forever and a day Changing point of view Making dreams come true And I know what's on her mind Forever and a day Takes the ring right off her hand No more reason to pretend On a train at station's end Searching for a little more Feelings never felt before Till the river starts to bend Just a tear and sigh And as feelings die She is leaving it behind Forever and a day Changing point of view Making dreams come true And I know what's on her mind Forever and a day She's leaving it all behind Just a tear and sigh And as feelings die She is leaving it behind Forever and a day Changing point of view Making dreams come true And I know what's on her mind Forever and a day