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Forsaken Gardens (PETER HAMMILL: The Silent Corner, The Empty Stage) (No chords, just voice.)

^FWhere are all the joys of yesterd^Dmay? F (already piano:) Dm Where, now, is the happiness and laughter that we shared?

^Am7Gone, like our childhood dreams, ^Gaspirations and beliefs - Time is a th^Amief, and he r^Favages our gardens,

stripping saplings, felling tr^Dmees, ^Ftrampling on our flowers, sucking sap and drying s^Dmeeds.

^AmIn the midnight candle-light^G of experience all colour f^Amades, green fingers gr^Dey^C..^B.

^GTime, alone, shall murder all the fl^Emowers, ^Gstill, there's time to share our plots and all that we call '^Fours'.

^AmHow much worse, then, if we all deny each others' n^Feeds ^A#and keep our^F garden's^Dm privatel^Cy?

^AmIts getting colder, wind and rain leave g^Emashes; ^Amlooking back, I only see the fr^Fiends ^GI've l^Amost^G. ^Am

^AmFires smoulder, raking through the ^Emashes ^Ammy hands are dirty, my mind is numb,

I c^Fount th^Ge c^Amost ^Gof '^FI': ^Em"I need to get on, I've got to tend my g^Bmarden;

^Emgot to shut you out, no time to crave your p^Card^Don n^Emo_ ^Bmow". F#m Bm G# A# C

^FNow I see the garden that I've grown is just the s^Dmame as those outside;

^Fthe fences, [that] erected to protect, simply div^D#ide... ^GmThere's ruination everywhere, the weather has

played h^D#avoc with the grass - ^Gmdoes anyone believe his [their] garden's really go^Fing to last?

^Am[and] In the time allotted us, can any man keep m^Fiserly his own? ^AmIs there any pleasure in a solitary gr^Fowth? ^Em ^Am

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^FCome and see my garden if you w^Dmill - I'd^F like someone to see it all before each root is k^Dmilled.

^Am7Surely now its time^G to open up each life to all - tear down the w^Am7alls, if its not too l^Dat^Ce!^B

^GThere is so much sorrow in the w^Emorld; ^Gthere is so much emptiness and heartbreak and p^Fain;

^AmSomewhere on the road we have all taken a wrong t^Furn - ^A#how can we b^Fuild the right^Dm path ag^Ca_^F ^C ^A#_in?

Through the gr^Am7ief, through the p^Gmain, our flowers need each others' ra^Am7in...

Credit to: Jose Javier Glaria at Hammill.ru

Peter Hammill - Forsaken gardens