Cohn, Marc - Olana Lyrics






They say my final masterpiece
Was this house upon the hill
High above the great and mighty river
My hand could not hold the brushes
Yes I guess I lost my will
And you can't keep painting paradise forever
Oh forever

From the Andes to Niagara
To where we stand today
I drew the great creations of my master
'Til the oil and the canvas
Lord I threw them all away
And traded them for stone and brick and plaster
I traded them all for you

(Winter wind blows and the river lies frozen at my feet)
I traded them all for you
(Springtime come and the river wanna run above the street)

She came to me one night
While I was tossing in my dreams
She said she'd give my family protection
I recall the night I died
Beneath her arches and her beams
I thanked her for the shelter and direction
I was lost until Olana

(Sun beat down on a summertime town -- he left me there)
I was lost until Olana
(Watching these hills turning gold for one more year)

Oh I've been from Jerusalem to Rome
Now I'm floating through these rooms tonight alone
And looking back on everything
All I ever wanted was a home

I was lost until Olana
How sweet the sound
How sweet the sound

They say my final masterpiece
Was this house upon the hill

I was lost until Olana
How sweet the sound
How sweet the sound





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  1. V.... V....

    Great song. Good lyrics.

  2. m.... b....

    klasse musik alles von ihm..

  3. A.... A....

    Lovely ❤️

  4. M.... C....

    Thanks for sharing, simply superb!

  5. S.... L....

    Really nice. Thank you so much for posting.

  6. p.... ....

    Great song!  Frederic Edwin Church is one of my favorite landscape painters.  The song is dead-on biographical.

    Who's the backup?  She sounds like a young Stevie Nicks.

    p.... ....

    Its from about 1993.

  7. S.... R....

    wow. better than album version. This song is my favorite ghost story.

    S.... R....

    +S.I. Rosenbaum For real...way better

  8. t.... ....

    I need to find the one thing that centers me. To find all I really ever wanted.

  9. A.... F....

    Funny you saying you cry like a rainstormwhenever you hearit..OH so do I! This song formeis the most moving song I have ever heard,hauntingly beautiful, heartbreaking and divine. For anyone who knows what it is like to love a "place" as much as you can love anything and then to loose it as I have knows this tyobe a powerful piece.It has been over twenty years since Ilost my "Olana". I will never get over my final masterpiece on the hill.

  10. g.... ....

    He performed it live in the Bing for KINK radio here in Portland, OR (Don't ask, that's just the call letters, not the "theme"). I wish I could find that recording. It's very simple, and minimal, and entirely powerful. It makes me cry like a rainstorm every time I hear it.

  11. T.... T....

    Got to be one of the best songs I've ever listened to. I mean, there are of course many, but this is a great song and performance in my humble opinion. Just beautiful stuff. Thanks so much.