The Gardener Of Eden (A Three Piece Suite)-The Style Council

[02:43.34]True I was a gardener once upon a time [02:57.96]When the world was young and all the earth was mine [03:12.61]Mine to tend to to plough and to sow [03:26.85]Before mankind came and rendered all things low [03:41.25]And beauty was it's first name by this I would call [03:55.75]And ready the harvest for one and for all [04:38.32]The orchards and the wheat fields which could of fed the world [04:52.26]Were divided up like money and sold through human slaves [05:06.96]The rivers fresh the hillsides that had no need of name [05:21.29]Now ran red with the life blood and drunk with guilty shame [05:35.59]The gentle bough was broken and twisted out of shape [05:42.14]And who knows the consequences when the bough doth break [05:49.35]The mother soil which reared it's young now reared her angry head [05:56.85]And rain fell down like teardrops upon the flower beds [06:03.39]The blame for this I'm in no doubt is mine and mine alone [06:17.57]But so proud was I of my work I had to share it's growth [06:31.58]This true I was a gardener in the time before the flood [06:45.88]Now these green fingers of mine are stained by angels' blood