[00:00.61]Where are all the joys of yesterday?
[00:11.38]Where, now, is the happiness and laughter that we shared?
[00:21.06]Gone, like our childhood dreams,
[00:26.91]aspirations and beliefs;
[00:29.68]time is a thief, and he ravages our gardens,
[00:39.28]stripping saplings, felling trees,
[00:46.86]trampling on our flowers,
[00:48.75]sucking sap and drying seeds.
[00:55.85]In the midnight candle-light of experience
[01:04.14]all colour fades, green fingers grey.
[01:20.47]Time, alone, shall murder all the flowers,
[01:27.92]still, there's time to share our plots and all that we call 'ours'.
[01:37.15]How much worse, then, if we all deny each others' needs
[01:45.99]and keep our gardens privately?
[01:54.18]Its getting colder, wind and rain leave gashes;
[01:58.27]looking back, I only see the friends I've lost.
[02:04.31]Fires smoulder, raking through the ashes
[02:07.71]my hands are dirty, my mind is numb,
[02:10.64]I count the cost of 'I':
[02:17.27]"I need to get on, I've got to tend my garden;
[02:21.23]got to shut you out, no time to crave your pardon now".
[02:42.46]Now I see the garden that I've grown is
[02:45.46]just the same as those outside;
[02:51.21]the fences that, erected to protect, simply divide....
[03:00.50]There's ruination everywhere,
[03:02.32]the weather has played havoc with the grass...
[03:08.21]does anyone believe his garden's really going to last?
[03:17.48]In the time allotted us, can any man keep miserly his own?
[03:24.63]Is there any pleasure in a solitary growth?
[04:20.87]Come and see my garden if you will,
[04:28.87]I'd like someone to see it all before each root is killed.
[04:41.89]Surely now its time to open up each life to all,
[04:51.21]tear down the walls, if it's not too late!
[05:07.09]There is so much sorrow in the world,
[05:14.42]there is so much emptiness and heartbreak and pain.
[05:23.78]Somewhere on the road we have all taken a wrong turn...
[05:32.22]how can we build the right path again?
[05:48.60]Through the grief, through the pain,
[06:01.29]our flowers need each other's rain....