Forsaken Gardens (2006 Digital Remaster)-Peter Hammill

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Peter Hammill [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....