Where are all the joys of yesterday?
Where, now, is the happiness and laughter that we shared?
Gone, like our childhood dreams, aspirations and beliefs --
Time is a thief, and he ravages our gardens,
Stripping saplings, felling trees,
Trampling on our flowers, sucking sap and drying seeds.
In the midnight candle-light of experience
All colour fades, green fingers grey....
Time, alone, shall murder all the flowers,
Still, there's time to share our plots and all that we call 'ours'.
How much worse, then, if we all deny each others' needs
And keep our garden's privately?
Its getting colder, wind and rain leave gashes;
Looking back, I only see the friends I've lost.
Fires smoulder, raking through the ashes
My hands are dirty, my mind is numb,
I count the cost of 'I' :
I need to get on, I've got to tend my garden;
Got to shut you out, no time to crave your pardon now.
Now I see the garden that I've grown is just the same
as those outside;
The fences, erected to protect, simply divide....
There's ruination everywhere, the weather has
played havoc with the grass --
Does anyone believe his garden's really going to last?
In the time allotted us, can any man keep miserly his own?
Is there any pleasure in a solitary growth?
Come and see my garden if you will ----
I'd like someone to see it all before each root is killed.
Surely now its time to open up each life to all ----
Tear down the walls, if its not too late!
There is so much sorrow in the world;
There is so much emptiness and heartbreak and pain;
Somewhere on the road we have all taken a wrong
turn ----
How can we build the right path again?
Through the grief, through the pain,
Our flowers need each others' rain....
Forsaken Gardens
Peter Hammill
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(In The) Black Room (No More) The Sub Mariner (On Tuesdays She Used To Do) Yoga A Louse Is Not A Home A Way Out Accidents Act Five Act One Act Six Again Again Airport Autumn Autumn [*] Been Alone So Long Been Alone So Long Betrayed Birds Birthday Special Breakthrough Candle Central Hotel Child Crying Wolf Curtains Description Dont Tell Me Down in the Sewer Dropping The Torch Easy to Slip Away Empress's Clothes Faculty X Faint-Heart and the Sermon Ferret and Featherbird Flight Fogwalking Four Pails Future Now Gaia German Overalls Glue Golden Promises Green Fingers Handicap And Equality Happy Happy [#][*] Happy Hour Hesitation His Best Girl I Once Wrote Some Poems I Will Find You I Will Find You Imperial Walls Imperial Zeppelin Imperial Zeppelin (chris Judge Smith) In Slow Time In The End Institute of Mental Health, Burning Jargon King Just Good Friends Labour Of Love Losing Faith in Words Lost And Found Man-Erg Modern My Experience My Favourite No Moon In The Water Nobody's Business Not For Keith Not The Man Oasis Ophelia Ophelia Paradox Drive Patient People You Were Going To Pompeii Porton Down Re-Awakening Re-Awakening [#][*] Red Shift Red Shift [BBC Radio One John Peel Session][*] Rubicon Rubicon [BBC Radio One John Peel Session][*] Seven Wonders (Bonus Track) She Wraps It Up Shingle Song Sign Sitting Targets Slender Threads Solitude Something About Ysabel's Dance Spirit Still Life Stranger Still Summer Song (In the Autumn) Sunshine Sunshine [#][*] Tapeworm The Birds The Birds [#][*] The Comet, The Course, The Tail The Future Now The Institute of Mental Health, Burning The Jargon King The Lie (bernini's St Theresa) The Old School Tie The Spirit The Unconscious Life This Side Of The Looking Glass Time For A Change (chris Judge Smith) Time Heals Time to Burn [Instrumental] Traintime Two Or Three Spectres Viking Vision What I Did What's It Worth Wilhelmina
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