Forsaken Gardens

F                                Dm
Where are all the joys of yesterday?
F                              
Where, now, is the happiness and 
                     Dm
laughter that we shared?
Am7                              
Gone, like our childhood dreams, 
G
aspirations and beliefs
            Am           F
Time is a thief, and he ravages our 
gardens
                              Dm
Stripping saplings, felling trees
F                                 
Trampling on our flowers, sucking 
                Dm
sap and drying seeds
Am                          G
In the midnight candle-light of 
experience
            Am                    
All colour fades, green fingers 
D  C  B
grey
G                                 
Time, alone, shall murder all the 
  Em
flowers
G                              
Still, there's time to share our 
                              F
plots and all that we call 'ours'
Am                                
How much worse, then, if we all 
                 F
deny each others' needs
A#          F        Dm       C
And keep our garden's privately?
Am                                
Its getting colder, wind and rain 
       Em
leave gashes
Am                             F 
Looking back, I only see the 
    G     Am  G  Am
friends I've lost
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Am                                 
Fires smoulder, raking through the 
Em
ashes
Am
My hands are dirty, my mind is numb
   F      G  Am  G   F
I count the cost of 'I'
Em                                
"I need to get on, I've got to 
      Bm
tend my garden
Em                            
Got to shut you out, no time to 
              C  D   Em  Bm
crave your pardon no_ ow"

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F                                 
Now I see the garden that I've 
                Dm
grown is just the same
As those outside
F                           
The fences, [that] erected to 
                     D#
protect, simply divide
Gm
There's ruination everywhere, the 
weather has
        D#
Played havoc with the grass
Gm                            
Does anyone believe his [their] 
                    F
garden's really going to last?
Am                                
[And] In the time allotted us, can
               F
 any man keep miserly his own?
Am                                
Is there any pleasure in a 
    F     Em  Am
solitary growth?

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F                              Dm
Come and see my garden if you will
   F                          
I'd like someone to see it all 
                      Dm
before each root is killed
Am7                G
Surely now its time to open up each 
life to all
               Am7                 
Tear down the walls, if its not too
  D  C  B
 late
G                               Em
There is so much sorrow in the world
G                            
There is so much emptiness and 
                  F
heartbreak and pain
Am                                
Somewhere on the road we have all 
               F
taken a wrong turn
A#          F             Dm     
How can we build the right path 
 C  F  C  A#
aga_    _in?
              Am7               Gm
Through the grief, through the pain
                                Am7
Our flowers need each others' rain