[ti:Forsaken Gardens (2006 Digital Remaster)] [ar:Peter Hammill] [al:The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Forsaken Gardens (2006 Digital Remaster) - Peter Hammill [00:00.83]Where are all the joys of yesterday [00:11.58]Where now is the happiness and laughter that we shared [00:21.58]Gone like our childhood dreams aspirations and beliefs [00:30.29]Time is a thief and he ravages our gardens [00:39.67]Stripping saplings felling trees [00:47.05]Trampling on our flowers sucking sap and drying seeds [00:56.26]In the midnight candle-light of experience [01:04.66]All colour fades green fingers grey [01:20.60]Time alone shall murder all the flowers [01:28.36]Still there's time to share our plots and all that we call' ours' [01:37.28]How much worse then if we all deny each others' needs [01:46.14]And keep our gardens privately [01:54.32]Its getting colder wind and rain leave gashes [01:58.58]Looking back I only see the friends I've lost [02:04.32]Fires smoulder raking through the ashes [02:08.25]My hands are dirty my mind is numb [02:11.01]I count the cost of I' [02:17.65]I need to get on I've got to tend my garden [02:21.37]Got to shut you out no time to crave your pardon now [02:42.69]Now I see the garden that I've grown is [02:45.59]Just the same as those outside [02:51.72]The fences that erected to protect simply divide [03:00.88]There's ruination everywhere [03:02.79]The weather has played havoc with the grass [03:09.11]Does anyone believe his garden's really going to last [03:17.66]In the time allotted us can any man keep miserly his own [03:25.55]Is there any pleasure in a solitary growth [04:21.34]Come and see my garden if you will [04:28.75]I'd like someone to see it all before each root is killed [04:42.47]Surely now its time to open up each life to all [04:51.30]Tear down the walls if it's not too late [05:07.11]There is so much sorrow in the world [05:14.91]There is so much emptiness and heartbreak and pain [05:23.78]Somewhere on the road we have all taken a wrong turn [05:32.51]How can we build the right path again [05:48.60]Through the grief through the pain [06:01.69]Our flowers need each other's rain