Gates to the Garden-Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

[00:00.00] [00:01.49]Past the ivy-covered windows of The Angel [00:05.71]Down Athenaeum Lane to the cathedral [00:15.28]Trough the churchyard I wandered [00:19.72]Sat for a spell there and I pondered [00:27.40]My back to the gates [00:32.62]My back to the gates [00:36.82]My back to the gates of the garden [00:46.66] [00:48.94]Fugitive fathers, sickly infants, decent mothers [00:54.25]Runaways and suicidal lovers [01:02.52]Assorted boxes of ordinary bones [01:07.04]Of aborted plans and sudden shattered hopes [01:14.93]In unlucky rows [01:19.91]In unhappy rows [01:24.54]In unlucky rows, up to the gates of the garden [01:34.03] [01:34.58]Won't you meet me at the gates [01:39.04]Won't you meet me at the gates [01:43.48]Won't you meet me at the gates [01:48.41]To the garden [01:51.38] [01:54.69]Beneath the creeping shadow of the tower [01:59.08]The bell from St.Edmunds informs me of the hour [02:08.32]I turn to find you waiting there for me [02:13.10]In sunlight and I see the way that you breathe [02:20.25]Alive and leaning [02:25.07]Alive and leaning [02:29.90]Alive and leaning on the gates of the garden [02:38.66] [02:42.05]Leave these ancient places to the angels [02:45.71]Let the saints attend to their keeping of the cathedrals [02:54.96]And leave the dead beneath the ground so cold [02:59.76]For God is in this hand that I hold [03:06.64]As we open up the gates to the garden [03:26.50]Won't you meet me at the gates [03:30.99]Won't you meet me at the gates [03:35.61]Won't you meet me at the gates [03:40.20]To the garden