Debut EP by Hosana

Lyrics:

I’m called, I fall
I watch all the world close, over me
I’m lost, eyes wide
Am I forsaken
To the cold, under
All the earth, what’s there
Am I dreaming, am I sinking, what’s there
All fire, all fire
And time everlasting
Where I’m called

I lay back, look up to see the world
All the people, innocent, unsure
Unknowing, that they signed a
Contract forced upon them while they slept

Veiled threats for honest praise
All to hear their plaudits
All to get applause
You’re wrecking havoc
Twist off an arm for grace
Is love all you wanted
Is love all you wanted
Break my body

In time, will I
Be turned from the pressure, into stone
Reformed, taught to
Love like you wanted
In my own sweet way
All in time

Or left to burn, screaming at the world
Supplicating, begging to be heard
A warning of the ransom
Pay it to the gunman racketeer

Veiled threats for honest praise
All to hear their plaudits
All to get applause
You’re wrecking havoc
Twist off an arm for grace
Is love all you wanted
Is love all you wanted
Break my body

Hosana EP

UkuSpuku

Ukuspuku

Debut EP by Hosana

Lyrics:

Hold your reckless suns as 
I feed my lonely horde
Mold your experience towards what you will
 
Fold our ambitions and
Blend our will until you
Give up your precious plan
 
To peer inside the fog and return with something
Solidified, you call out but carry nothing
A sudden glimpse convinced me to remain unseen
 
Omens are turning sour as
The demons multiply 
Will I ever see the bottom of this dark night 
 
I've reached inside the fog and returned with something
Liquified, you call out but carry nothing
A sudden glimpse convinced me to remain unseen
 
So don’t you ever call this a loss
When you never held it in the first place
No matter what change may come
Grant me strength, to remain
Still inside this fleeting pain
To nurture words that feed the flame
Engulfing all my vestiges of hate

Foggis

Debut EP by Hosana

Lyrics:

One of them calls you out
The other mends your hope
A cyclical enterprise at best
But you’re no tired trope

I’ll be there to lend you a mirror
But you’ll have to dry your own eyes 
I’m not sure how to make it clear that 
I refuse to be captive
To your mountain of spite

Brother, I’m waiting to be found
There’s no one else worth keeping around
‘Cause it’s circuses, all the way down
Carousels and infinite clowns
Circuses driving me underground

I’m no exception 
And clearly neither are you
Tongue-tied by this futile regression
Flailing against my suffocating ruse

Buildin us up as He slaughters our brothers 
Banding together to keep out the others 
Filling a yawning void with vitriol

Devouring whispers that inch us ahead
Dwelling inside all the callous unsaid 
Leaving behind us a wake of fruitless toil

Gurz

Hosana is an experimental indie band from Toronto, ON. Their eponymous EP harmonizes ethereal soundscapes with undercurrents of curated chaos while pawing at catharsis via hope, desperation and emergent madness.

Hosana is:
Eric Thorfinnson - sounds, vox, words, production
Scott Carruthers - vox, words

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