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Where are all the joys of yesterday?Where, now, is the happiness and laughter that we shared?Gone, like our childhood dreams, aspirations and beliefstime is a thief, and he ravages our gardensstripping saplings, felling treestrampling on our flowers, sucking sap and drying seedsIn the midnight candle-light of experienceall colour fades, green fingers greyTime, alone, shall murder all the flowersStill, there's time to share our plots and all that we call 'ours'How much worse, then, if we all deny each others' needsand keep our gardens privately?It's getting colder, wind and rain leave gasheslooking back, I only see the friends I've lostFires smoulder, raking through the ashesmy hands are dirty, my mind is numbI count the cost of 'I'"I need to get on, I've got to tend my gardengot to shut you out, no time to crave your pardon now"Now I see the garden that I've grown isjust the same as those outsidethe fences that, erected to protect, simply divideThere's ruination everywhereSongtextethe weather has played havoc with the grassdoes anyone believe his garden's really going to last?In the time allotted us, can any man keep miserly his own?Is there any pleasure in a solitary growth?Come and see my garden if you willI'd like someone to see it all before each root is killedSurely now it's time to open up each life to alltear down the walls, if it's not too late!There is so much sorrow in the worldThere is so much emptiness and heartbreak and painSomewhere on the road we have all taken a wrong turnHow can we build the right path again?Through the grief, through the painOur flowers need each other's rain Aus Songtexte Mania