F Dm
Where are all the joys of yesterday?
F Dm
Where, now, is the happiness and laughter that we shared?
Am7 G
Gone, like our childhood dreams, aspirations and beliefs
Am F
Time is a thief, and he ravages our gardens
Dm
Stripping saplings, felling trees
F Dm
Trampling on our flowers, sucking sap and drying seeds
Am G
In the midnight candle-light of experience
Am D C B
All colour fades, green fingers grey
G Em
Time, alone, shall murder all the flowers
G F
Still, there's time to share our plots and all that we call 'ours'
Am F
How much worse, then, if we all deny each others' needs
A# F Dm C
And keep our garden's privately?
Am Em
Its getting colder, wind and rain leave gashes
Am F G Am G Am
Looking back, I only see the friends I've lost
Am Em
Fires smoulder, raking through the ashes
Am
My hands are dirty, my mind is numb
F G Am G F
I count the cost of 'I'
Em Bm
"I need to get on, I've got to tend my garden
Em C D Em Bm
Got to shut you out, no time to crave your pardon no_ ow"
( F#m Bm G# A# C )
F Dm
Now I see the garden that I've grown is just the same
As those outside
F D#
The fences, [that] erected to protect, simply divide
Gm
There's ruination everywhere, the weather has
D#
Played havoc with the grass
Gm F
Does anyone believe his [their] garden's really going to last?
Am F
[And] In the time allotted us, can any man keep miserly his own?
Am F Em Am
Is there any pleasure in a solitary growth?
( F G Am G Am Em Am )
( Am G Am G F )
( Em Bm Em C D Em )
( Bm F#m Bm G# A# C C# Fm )
F Dm
Come and see my garden if you will
F Dm
I'd like someone to see it all before each root is killed
Am7 G
Surely now its time to open up each life to all
Am7 D C B
Tear down the walls, if its not too late
G Em
There is so much sorrow in the world
G F
There is so much emptiness and heartbreak and pain
Am F
Somewhere on the road we have all taken a wrong turn
A# F Dm C F C A#
How can we build the right path aga_ _in?
Am7 Gm
Through the grief, through the pain
Am7
Our flowers need each others' rain
