In The Garden (Album Version) Lyrics

Through the glass

Cross the divide

A complex system in there hides

Three golden hair and two dictators

Broken trio

I'm the neighbor

Trucks with boxes moved them in

Laying a foundation for a narrative

The oldest first to go

The youngest grabbed her coat

I'm running away she told her parents

To my backyard she stumbled on accident

I watched the roots fall away they were binding

I watched it slip off of her finger

The old money wedding ring

Her frame retreated to the house

I watched her spirit still there roam

Through the fog stayed with the mystic

Making friends with garden gnomes

She stays here by the fountain

Her soul stays

In the garden

Through the glass

Cross the divide

A mourning family in their hides

A golden girl made a dictator

Had never seen her father cry

Predisposed independence

It's been cut short her lonely adolescence

Break down the glass

There's no divide

Ran to the stage

The youngest hides

She's running away

She saw her audience

To my backyard she returned to her essence

Intrigued she explored

Her old self took reminding

I watched her find her spirit but new roots now were binding

She grabbed our hands to watch her act

With spectators watched and sat

Through the fog we left the mystic

Watching a life on sixteen tracks

A ghost stays by the fountain

Now her spirit watches

Time to wait it's supposed to rain

Summer camp songs were always her favorite

Sixteen lines run over time

Intentional verses impulsively hurt them

Rumors fly what if she didn't lie

Then maybe she wouldn't have had to see him

Dreaming of her comfort blanket

Foreshadow a lifetime of lyrics and life lines

Her inner child who watched beside me

Whispered all her family's secrets

She let her spirit leave

She'll drive back on her birthday

To find a sad scene the garden torn away

Her grin now fails

The tears will fall

Appears her spirit standing tall

I've been here with you sixteen years

She tells her wiping broken tears

A million lessons learned near the museum

She broke the stage's roots for a newfound freedom

In the garden

In the garden

In the garden