The Garden Beckons - Tom Middleton

Tear it down Tear it down around my head I need you To bury this beneath my bed The crows in the garden are laughing at my expense Drowning out all the lies that I might have told instead My stone My shield, my steady hand Hold your light To the darkness in my head Put your ear to my heart or set your teeth against my throat Give me something pretty to wear beneath my blood-stained clothes My darling, the devil knows my name Whoa, oh Lay me down Pour the dirt into our bed Tell the crows They can have their pound of flesh The ghosts at the window echo all our quiet prayers When they come for us, they'll come with hammers and nails My darling, the devil knows my name My name My name Get on your knees and Dig up the garden Won't you throw down that spade and Dig up the garden, darling? Get your hands dirty and Rip up the garden Won't you cut down that apple tree for me?

I come to the garden alone While the dew is still on the roses And the voice I hear, falling on my ear The son of God discloses And he walks with me And he talks with me And he tells me I am his own And the joy we share as we tarry there None other has ever known I'd stay in the garden with him Though the night around me is falling But he bids me go Through the voice of woe His voice to me is calling And he walks with me And he talks with me And he tells me I am his own And the joy we share as we tarry there None other has ever known And the joy we share as we tarry there None other has ever known

Well, he came from Northern Ireland Searchin' for the free man's ground And he came to bet his fortune On a West Virginia plow He built a house of timber And raised a redhead son Then they worked the land together And prayed the rain would come There's a scarecrow in the garden That looks like Lucifer And I've been readin' Revelations With my bare feet in the river Well, the readhead son got older And took a brown eyed wife And the fields were green as dollars 'Cause the dirt was black as night I came in late September The youngest one of three And my sisters off and married So the land was left to me There's a scarecrow in the garden That looks like Lucifer And I've been readin' Revelations With my bare feet in the river I know every single fence post Every rock to go around I've been starin' at the red oak Where I know they'll lay me down The fields ain't what they once were The rains just seem to flood And I've been thinkin' 'bout that river Wonderin' how it turns to blood I've been sittin' here all mornin' I was sittin' here all night There's a Bible in my left hand And a pistol in my right

متكتف مهموم موجوع وضعيف وشجاع مليان أحلام وعشان مربوط مكسور وبكسر في المآديف وتفوت أيام وتمر سنين وانا حالي غريب انا مين انا مين مشدود في الساقية وعايش مبسوط وحزين ومحبط وجرئ ورزين مشدود في الساقية وعايش مبسوط وحزين ومحبط وجرئ ورزين على غفلة اتحول بركان جبار انا ضلمة وليل أنا نار ونهار متكتف مهموم موجوع وضعيف وشجاع مليان أحلام وعشان مربوط مكسور وبكسر في المآديف ماشي على طريق مكتوب مرسوم بس انا مسؤول وعليا اللوم ماقدرش أقول من الذنب برئ لا انا ابليس ولا هبقى رسول ماقدرش أقول من الذنب برئ لا انا ابليس ولا هبقى رسول قدامي طريق همشيه همشيه نفهم في الآخر كل ده لية متكتف مهموم موجوع وضعيف وشجاع مليان أحلام وعشان مربوط مكسور وبكسر في المآديف

فوسط زحمة وناس كتير وطريق أنا ماشي فيه عكس السير وسط الطموح والأمل والتمني فاضلي خطوة توصلني فوسط حاجات ومكيفات بحاول أنسى كل اللي فات في وسط صدري ضلعي مكسور ومن خلاله قلبي شايف نور أنا كنت فاكر اني طاير وأتاريني على وشي بقع أنا كنت فاكر إني هوصل لكني بهرب من الوجع أنا كنت فاكر اني طاير وأتاريني على وشي بقع أنا كنت فاكر إني هوصل لكني بهرب من الوجع فوسط الليل وأنا بعيد عن البشر شفت نور يشبه نور القمر بس القمر مسيره يفارق ويسيبني تاني مع الوحدة أحارب فوسط قصة حب يعني وهمية كان لازم أصدق اصل الوحدة قوية مش كل المشاعر حقيقية أنا شفت نور معرفتش اغمض عنيا أنا كنت فاكر اني طاير وأتاريني على وشي بقع أنا كنت فاكر إني هوصل لكني بهرب من الوجع أنا كنت فاكر اني طاير وأتاريني على وشي بقع أنا كنت فاكر إني هوصل لكني بهرب من الوجع

You lift my heart up when the rest of me is down And you, you enchant me, even when you're not around If there, there are boundaries, I will try to knock them down I'm latching on babe, now I know what I have found I feel we're close enough I wanna lock in your love I feel we're close enough I wanna lock in your love Your love And now I've got you in my space I won't let go of you You got me shackled in my embrace I'm latching onto you I feel so encaptured, you got me wrapped up in your touch I feel so enamoured, hold me tight within your clutch And how did you do it, you got me losing all my breath How did you give me, to have my heart beat out my chest And now I've got you in my space I won't let go of you You got me shackled in my embrace I'm latching onto you And now I've got you in my space I won't let go of you You got me shackled in my embrace I'm latching onto you I'm latching onto you I'm latching onto you I'm latching onto you I'm latching onto you I'm latching onto you Woah... woah... woah... I'm latching onto you I'm latching onto you I'm latching onto you I'm latching onto you And now I've got you in my space I won't let go of you You got me shackled in my embrace I'm latching onto you