[ti:Queen of the Winter Night] [ar:Trans-Siberian Orchestra] [al:The Lost Christmas Eve] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Queen of the Winter Night - Trans-Siberian Orchestra [00:01.99]Songs Title:queen of the winter night [00:03.99]And so back at the hotel [00:06.94]Our angel again arrived [00:07.94]But this time he went up the front steps [00:09.94]Which of course led him inside [00:11.26](it's one of those things that architects [00:13.26]Conveniently decide) [00:13.32]Now hotels are quite like people [00:13.57]No two exactly the same [00:13.75]And this one had such a magical past [00:14.44]The angel found himself quite entertained [00:16.44]The foyer still had an elegance [00:17.44]That the years could not disguise [00:17.75]And the shadows of christmas eves long disappeared [00:18.94]This night still gently glided by [00:19.13]For in this hotel here side by side [00:19.38]The past and the present dwelled [00:19.57]And the ghosts who lived here not only lived [00:20.94]They honestly lived well [00:21.32]The lobby had a steinway piano [00:22.38]That was steeped in memories [00:23.32]And some said duke ellington's fingers [00:24.69]Still lingered on those keys [00:25.50]There was a grand palace ballroom [00:26.44]Where princesses had once waltzed [00:27.25]Whose beauty and sense of style [00:28.19]The newspapers would constantly exhault [00:29.00]The ghosts of rockefellers and vanderbilts [00:29.94]Still met at their christmas eve charity balls [00:31.25]Raising money not for themselves [00:32.13]But raising it for all [00:33.07](and the sound of their children laughing [00:34.50]Still echoed in these halls) [00:35.57]Now these spirits of course could not be seen [00:37.32]By any human eyes [00:38.19]But each one smiled at the angel [00:39.57]When they saw him walking by [00:40.32]And these ghosts reminded the angel [00:41.57]How every human waiting to be born [00:42.76]And every life that had already left [00:43.94]When it was tired out and worn [00:45.32]Were connected by those alive right now [00:46.50]Which gave the living quite a trust [00:47.76]To pass on what was best and good [00:49.25]Inside of each of us [00:50.25]Now within each guest room he heard many hearts [00:52.19]And behind each heart there was a life [00:53.07]And the angel carefully read them all [00:54.75]With the next hour of that night [00:55.82]When he reached the grand palace ballroom [00:56.07]It was behind closed mahogany doors [00:57.14]And when the angel was passing by it [00:58.94]He could hear music begin once more [01:01.44]It seemed that since this room was built [01:03.01]Musicians did permanently reside [01:04.94]And then the angel did what we all would do [01:06.89]He went to look inside [01:07.42] [01:08.92]And there he found such a majestic orchestra [01:10.24] [01:35.47]To please all it would be enough [01:36.97]But then someone plugged a guitar in [01:38.34]And the volume it crept up [01:39.59]So with a song inspired by mozart's [01:41.47]Famous "queen of the night" [01:41.65]The orchestra added the word "winter" [01:43.68]And some notes some fog some lights