Forsaken Gardens Chords by Peter Hammill

_ _ _ Where are all the joys of [G] _ yesterday? _ _ _
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Where now [Am] is the happiness and [Gm] laughter [G] that we [D] _ shared? _ _ _ _
_ [A] God, [Am] _ like our childhood _ dreams,
[Bm] _ _ _ Aspirations and beliefs,
[Am] Time is a thief, _ _ _
_ _ And he [F] _ _
ravages our gardens,
Stripping saplings, [Dm] felling trees,
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
Trampling on the flowers, sucking sap and [D] drying _ _ seeds. _ _ _ _
[Am] In the middle _ _ _ _ [G] of _ _ _ experience, _
All [Am] colour _ fades, _ _
Green [D] fingers _ grey.
[C] _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ Time alone shall murder [Em] all the flowers, _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ Still there's time to share our plots and all [F] that we call _ _ ours.
_ _ _ [Am] _ How much worse than if we all deny each [F] other's _ _ needs,
_ [Bb] And _ keep [A] our _ [Db] _ _ [C] _ _ _ beliefs.
_ _ _ [A] It's getting [Am] colder, I'm in that rainy [Em] ashes,
[A] Looking back I only see the [F] friends [Am] I've lost.
My soul's a [A]-raking through [Em] the ashes,
My hands are dirty, my mind is [F] not my couch.
[G] _ [Am] The [G] cost of [F] _ _ life, [E] I need to get on,
I've got to [Bm] tend my [E] garden.
The past shall do one more time to break [C] your [D] heart.
Now I [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
[Bb] see [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ the garden that I've grown [Dm] is just the same as those outside. _
_ _ _ [F] _ The fences that [F] erected to protect [Eb] simply _ _ _ _ divide.
_ [Gm] _ _ _ Destruination everywhere, the weather [Eb] has laid havoc with the grass.
_ _ _ [Gm] _ Does anyone believe their garden's really [F] going to _ last? _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
And any [F] man in here might believe so. _
_ _ [Am] _ Is there any pleasure in a solitary _ grove? _ _ _
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[F] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ [E] _ _ [B] _ _
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_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Cm] _
_ [Db] _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _
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Come and see my garden if [Dm] you will.
_ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
[F] I'd like someone [G] to say it all if one treat is caring.
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[Am] Surely now it's time _ _ _
[Bm] to [B] open up each life [G] to all.
[Am] Head on, _ bones, _ if it's [D] not too _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ late. _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ There is so much sorrow in [Em] the _ _ _ _ world.
_ [G] _ _ There is so much emptiness of [F] heartbreak and _ _ _ _ _ [Am] pain.
_ Somewhere on the road the animal taken [F] a wrong turn. _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ How [F] can we build [Db] the right [C] path again? _ _ _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Through _ the [Am] _
_ dream _ of a world _ [Gm] without pain. _ _ _
Our flowers need each _ other's [Am] rain. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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