The Garden Of Yesterday

Lyrics

Intro: Haunting Piano and Strings
Verse 1: Soft Male Vocal
In the stillness of a dream
Beyond the reach of dawn
I found a garden standing
Where the years had all withdrawn

Ancient sunlight crossed the ruins
Like a ghost that couldn't fade
Painting shadows on the memories
That the passing seasons made

The roses wore no color
The fountains held no sky
And every stone seemed burdened
By a thousand last goodbyes

Pre-Chorus: Build
And somewhere in the silence
A distant voice remained
Calling through the ivy
Like it once had known my name

Chorus: Full Band
In the garden of yesterday
Where forgotten summers lie
I walk among the echoes
Of a life that passed me by

Every pathway leads to shadows
Every dream has lost its way
In the garden...
Of yesterday

Verse II
The walls were cracked and broken
The arbor overgrown
As though the hands that built it
Had abandoned it alone

And while I stood there listening
To a wind that wasn't there
I felt the weight of something
Hidden deep within the air

Then visions started forming
Like reflections in the rain
Fragments of another lifetime
I could almost touch again

Pre-Chorus
Faces without names
Stories without end
Pieces of a world
I could never comprehend

Chorus
In the garden of yesterday
Where forgotten summers lie
I walk among the echoes
Of a life that passed me by

Every pathway leads to shadows
Every dream has lost its way
In the garden...
Of yesterday

Bridge: Spoken and Sung
Tell me...
Who planted all these roses?
Who watched them bloom?
Who watched them die?
Why do these ruins seem familiar?
Why do these memories survive?
Was it sorrow?
Was it longing?
Was it all I left behind?
Then the answer came before me
Like a whisper in the night...

Instrumental
[Piano, orchestra and emotional guitar solo]

Final Chorus: Bigger
In the garden of yesterday
Now the truth is drawing near
Every faded flower blooming
From a forgotten hope or fear

All the dreams I never followed
All the chances torn apart
Every rose that lies before me
Was once growing in my heart

Outro: Piano and Vocal
Now I understand the silence
Now I know the reason why
This garden was not waiting...
This garden never died...
It was hidden deep inside me
Through the passage of the years
All these ruins...
All these flowers...
Are my hopes...
Are my tears...
And this garden...
Is my heart