Forsaken Gardens

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"

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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?

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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