Forsaken Garden’s (Live at L’Altro Mondo, Rimini, Italy / 1975) Van der Graaf Generator

[Verse 1]
Where are all the joys of yesterday?
Where, now, is the happiness and laughter that we shared?
Gone, like our childhood dreams, aspirations and beliefs;
Time is a thief, and he ravages our gardens
Stripping saplings, felling trees
Trampling on our flowers, sucking sap and drying seeds
In the midnight candle-light of experience
All colour fades, green fingers grey

[Verse 2]
Time, alone, shall murder all the flowers
Still, there's time to sharе our plots and all that we call 'ours'
In the time allottеd us, can any man keep miserly his own?
And keep his gardens privately?

[Verse 3]
Its getting colder, wind and rain leave gashes;
Looking back, I only see the friends I've lost
Fires smoulder, raking through the ashes
My hands are dirty, my mind is numb
I count the cost of 'I':
"I need to get on, I've got to tend my garden;
Got to shut you out, no time to crave your pardon now"

[Instrumental]