Forsaken Gardens chords by Peter Hammill

Chords with lyrics

Forsaken Gardens (PETER HAMMILL: The Silent Corner, The Empty Stage)


(No chords, just voice.)

FF                DmDm
Where are all the joys of yesterday?

FF                 (already piano:) DmDm
Where, now, is the happiness and laughter that we shared?

Am7Am7               G+G
Gone, like our childhood dreams, aspirations and beliefs -

      A minorAm      FF
Time is a thief, and he ravages our gardens,

               DmDm
stripping saplings, felling trees,

FF                         DmDm
trampling on our flowers, sucking sap and drying seeds.

A minorAm             G+G
In the midnight candle-light of experience

      A minorAm          D MajorD C majorC BB
all colour fades, green fingers grey...

G+G                  E minorEm
Time, alone, shall murder all the flowers,

G+G                              FF
still, there's time to share our plots and all that we call 'ours'.

A minorAm                         FF
How much worse, then, if we all deny each others' needs

A#A#     FF    DmDm    C majorC
and keep our garden's privately?

A minorAm                    E minorEm
Its getting colder, wind and rain leave gashes;

A minorAm               FF   G+G   A minorAm G+G A minorAm
looking back, I only see the friends I've lost.

A minorAm                 E minorEm
Fires smoulder, raking through the ashes

A minorAm
my hands are dirty, my mind is numb,

  FF   G+G A minorAm G+G  FF
I count the cost of 'I':

E minorEm                   B minorBm
"I need to get on, I've got to tend my garden;

E minorEm                     C majorC D MajorD  E minorEm B minorBm
got to shut you out, no time to crave your pardon no_ ow".

F# minorF#m B minorBm G#G# A#A# C majorC

FF                         DmDm
Now I see the garden that I've grown is just the same
as those outside;

FF                        D#D#
the fences, [that] erected to protect, simply divide...

G minorGm
There's ruination everywhere, the weather has

    D#D#
played havoc with the grass -

G minorGm                        FF
does anyone believe his [their] garden's really going to last?

A minorAm                        FF
[and] In the time allotted us, can any man keep miserly his own?

A minorAm                  FF   E minorEm A minorAm
Is there any pleasure in a solitary growth?

FF G+G A minorAm G+G A minorAm E minorEm A minorAm

A minorAm G+G A minorAm G+G FF

E minorEm B minorBm E minorEm C majorC D MajorD E minorEm

B minorBm F# minorF#m B minorBm G#G# A#A# C majorC C#C# F minorFm

FF               DmDm
Come and see my garden if you will -

  FF                        DmDm
I'd like someone to see it all before each root is killed.

Am7Am7        G+G
Surely now its time to open up each life to all -

        Am7Am7          D MajorD C majorC BB
tear down the walls, if its not too late!

G+G                E minorEm
There is so much sorrow in the world;

G+G                       FF
there is so much emptiness and heartbreak and pain;

A minorAm                        FF
Somewhere on the road we have all taken a wrong turn -

A#A#     FF       DmDm   C majorC FF C majorC A#A#
how can we build the right path aga_  _in?

       Am7Am7        G minorGm
Through the grief, through the pain,

                Am7Am7
our flowers need each others' rain...