Joe Henry - Piano Furnace Lyrics

Let's pull this piano out from the wall
Clear the young children from out of the hall
Stuff it with tender put paid to it all
Let it stoke the fires of the world

Let's beat this guitar it was meant to be heard
The way a confession is dragged word by word
From out of the mouths of the sick and the cured
Let it stoke the fires of the world

A clanging black train runs through the door
Connecting the fears we hadn't before

Leaves them in ribbons strewn out on the floor
Tangled as ever we sing
Let's string up that harp from the limb of a tree
Let it swing out above us send buckle our knees
A hymn for the hopeless here thicker than thieves
Let it stoke the fires of the world

A clanging black train cuts through the song
Connecting the fears along for so long

Leaves them in ribbons strewn out on the lawn
Tangled as ever we sing let your iron lungs
My dark heart crack open with diamonds
When the real rumble starts

Stand naked in smoke, sending up sparks
Let us stoke the fires of the world
Let us stoke the fires of the world