FDm
Where are all the joys of yesterday?
FDm
Where, now, is the happiness and laughter that we shared?
Am7G
Gone, like our childhood dreams, aspirations and beliefs
AmF
Time is a thief, and he ravages our gardens
Dm
Stripping saplings, felling trees
FDm
Trampling on our flowers, sucking sap and drying seeds
AmG
In the midnight candle-light of experience
AmDCB
All colour fades, green fingers grey
GEm
Time, alone, shall murder all the flowers
GF
Still, there's time to share our plots and all that we call 'ours'
AmF
How much worse, then, if we all deny each others' needs
A#FDmC
And keep our garden's privately?
AmEm
Its getting colder, wind and rain leave gashes
AmFGAmGAm
Looking back, I only see the friends I've lost
AmEm
Fires smoulder, raking through the ashes
Am
My hands are dirty, my mind is numb
FGAmGF
I count the cost of 'I'
EmBm
"I need to get on, I've got to tend my garden
EmCDEmBm
Got to shut you out, no time to crave your pardon no_ ow"
( F#mBmG#A#C )
FDm
Now I see the garden that I've grown is just the same
As those outside
FD#
The fences, [that] erected to protect, simply divide
Gm
There's ruination everywhere, the weather has
D#
Played havoc with the grass
GmF
Does anyone believe his [their] garden's really going to last?
AmF
[And] In the time allotted us, can any man keep miserly his own?
AmFEmAm
Is there any pleasure in a solitary growth?
( FGAmGAmEmAm )
( AmGAmGF )
( EmBmEmCDEm )
( BmF#mBmG#A#CC#Fm )
FDm
Come and see my garden if you will
FDm
I'd like someone to see it all before each root is killed
Am7G
Surely now its time to open up each life to all
Am7DCB
Tear down the walls, if its not too late
GEm
There is so much sorrow in the world
GF
There is so much emptiness and heartbreak and pain
AmF
Somewhere on the road we have all taken a wrong turn
A#FDmCFCA#
How can we build the right path aga_ _in?
Am7Gm
Through the grief, through the pain
Am7
Our flowers need each others' rain